Hello everybody!
You guys might be wondering about the title of this email. It is actually really applicable to this week. This week we had another baptism. Isabelle got baptized! So that is fantastic! But we also have
not been able teach very much. We've contacted all our less active referrals and most of our nonmember referrals, and nobody wants us to come back. We've been working super hard but with almost nothing to show from it. We are only teaching five nonmembers now, and almost no less actives or recent converts. It's really discouraging. And to make it even worse, the mission president emailed Elder Falconbury (my companion) and told him that he expects more. So it's bad enough that
the president is taking notice. We've really been working hard, but nobody wants to talk to us, and we don't have a lot of member support (that would help a lot). Yesterday, I put together a three part plan
that we both think will really turn the situation around. Hopefully it will work!
So yeah, in terms of baptisms, things are going great! The investigators we are teaching are coming along really well. Jason just needs his second interview and he'll be able to be baptized too. I think Monica will be on date pretty soon. Carson (a newer investigator kid we are teaching) too. But in terms of having and finding people to teach, we are having not a very good time. Hence the title of the email.
A fun thing that happened this week was that I got to hand feed a lamb! We were on the way back from a less active member's house and we saw some lambs playing in a field. We pulled over and I got out to take some pictures. While I did that one of them came right up to the fence and I fed him some grass (the grass on my side of the fence was much greener than the grass in the field) and he let me pet his head. It was awesome! Then on Sunday, I gave a talk about an awesome analogy I based on that experience. So even better! And it probably one of the best talks I've ever given.
Well, that's about it for this week. Hopefully, I'll start having more success here by next week. I'm confident that it can happen.
Have a great week everybody!
-Elder Oswald
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