So about N. She has been clean from smoking for 7 days now, and she has a date for this Friday. Her parents are in town, and she is ready to go. So our current game plan is just to keep her so busy that she simply does not have time to smoke between now and her baptism. We are going over on Tuesday to teach her, then again on Wednesday to take her to the stake center and then again on Thursday to take her to the Visitor's center at the Portland Temple. It will be awesome. And then on Friday she is going to be baptized. I am so excited for her. She has progressed so much. She is so much happier, and her parents, who are not members of the Church have noticed this as well. They are so happy about the changes that they have seen in her. We talked with her dad (she is living with her dad currently) and he is so grateful that she is having good people in her life, because it helps her to see the consequences of her actions, and it helps her to live as a better person. At least that is the way that he put it. But all around, N is so much more happy that she was while she was smoking.
But while there is positive, there will be negative. One of the less active members of the ward is super apostate, he stopped going to church when he was 16 and just went super deep into anti material, so Elder Jones and I decided that we would hand him over to the ward and let the Elder's Quorum handle him. K just takes up way too much energy just to sit and listen to, and we leave his house just ready to drop because of how tired we are after leaving his house.
But on the other hand, we were able to contact a lot of potential investigators and teach them about Joseph Smith and the Restored Gospel. One of them was super cool. He was Catholic, and his brother was a non-denominational Christian. So when we were talking, the brother would stop us and make sure that he understood what we were saying. It was super awesome. I have never had someone do that on my mission before. We were able to make sure that they understood where we were coming from, and that they had an accurate representation of the Restoration. Unfortunately we were not able to get a return appointment from Y and his brother, so we are going to give them some time to read the Book of Mormon and come back this week to see if we can continue to teach them about the Restored Gospel.
Also, there was a less active member of the ward that moved in about two weeks ago that we tracted into. Luckily I still remembered how to set up surround sound systems from college, and I was able to help him set up his. Fortunately his was a super easy set up, cause if it had been any harder, it would have taken a lot longer to set up.
Then on Sunday, N came to church and S. That is the most current investigators that we have had come to church at any one for as long as I can ever remember. It was so awesome! S enjoyed church, but had to leave after sacrament meeting, cause his son's braces started to come apart, and he needed to go to an orthodontist pretty quick. This past week was really awesome!!!
We also helped to move a couple potential investigators from the Beaverton West Zone into our area. We made sure that they had our phone number, and we will be going back over this week to see if they need any more help, and to see if they are interested in taking the discussions.
Love
Elder Peterson
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