3/8/15
Hey Everybody!!
Hope you all had a great week! We had a pretty good week but it was definitely difficult some of the days!?
Anyways so on Monday we played soccer again in the morning! It was really
fun as always but for some reason i always end up having a headache at the end!
Then we basically just hung out until night time! Some one called us that day to
go with them to teach a lesson that night so at 8 we went with him to teach the
lesson! The lesson was very strange though.. We went to teach this girl who they
thought was possessed by a demon but the Bishop had already given her a blessing
and he said that it was just something wrong with her nervous system and what
looked like the start of schizophrenia.. During the lesson she was making weird
faces and was drinking water and spitting it on the ground and throwing it on
herself and it was all pretty strange but the lesson went well though! We haven't
heard anything else about the girl since..
Tuesday and Wednesday and were some of the harder days for us.. Every time
we would go out and wed have the awesomely planned days full of appointments
with lots of people but when we would get to there houses they were always busy, weren't there, or the worst one of all, they would be there in there houses and
open up the curtains and see us and then just never open up the door.. So yeah
this week was kind of hard in that aspect! We manage to do alright by the end of
the week goal-wise so that was pretty cool but a lot of the days were just
really discouraging sometimes!! We kept on going though and we were able to have
some good lessons and some cool experiences though!
Thursday was weekly planning because on Friday we were going to have the
Zone meeting and in the afternoon we went out and tried to visit people but it
ended up being a lot like Tuesday and Wednesday! It was kind of a bummer but we
cant really control that too much! We basically just end up walking around all
day trying to visit people and out feet hurt and one thing we look forward to is
dinner! Every other night for dinner she gives us a big bowl of fruit and
yogurt!! Its pretty awesome! After dinner on Thursday we went to the church and
we had a ward missionary night for the first time all year!? So the turnout wasn't the greatest but it went alright after all! We are going to start doing
that every Thursday now for the rest of the year!
Friday we went to the zone meeting that we have once a month and it went
really well! We had a lesson on baptism and helping prepare the people to be
baptized and how to do baptismal interviews and things like that and i feel like
i learned quite a bit which was cool! Friday afternoon we went out visiting with
the Bishop and hes such a cool guy!! Hes only 32 years old and hes awesome! So
we went out with him expecting to have this really great day and we had some
important appointments planned but they ended up all falling through!? We were
super bummed! Anyways that was about all for Friday..
On Saturday morning we got up at 6 am and went running around this soccer
stadium that there is in our area for a while and it was really cool and it felt
nice to run like that after not having done it for a very long time!! We are
going to start doing that with the Bishop like 4 days a week which will be
awesome!! Then on Saturday afternoon we had a pretty decent work day! It wasn't
as bad as other days this week!
Sunday went alright i guess.. We only had one investigator in church on
Sunday! Hes a really cool kid but hes only 15 years old and we've talked to his
parents a lot of times but they don't want to come to church or anything like
that so he wont be able to get baptized for a little while! On Sunday we had two
pretty cool lessons with some of our investigators and also with a recent
convert family and Sunday turned out to be a pretty good day! It was also a
pretty nerve racking day because Sunday night at 9ish they call us and tell us
if we have changes or not.. So we were just waiting on Sunday night for the call
to see if i had changes or not and they finally called and it turns out that i
have changes!! I'm kind of happy and pretty sad at the same time!! I really like
this area and the people i have met and i wanted to stay for just one more
change but i guess im needed in another place.. So tomorrow we will go to the
changes meeting and i will find out where im going!!
It turned out being a pretty good week after all.. A little bittersweet but
its a new opportunity to learn! So im going to have to go say goodbye to the
members and people tonight and pack up to head out tomorrow!! One thing i know
though is that the way that these things are determined is by revelation! I know
that that is a marvelous thing that we take joy in as members of the church! I'm
grateful for the revelation today and i know that the Church is guided by
revelation today!!Love you all!!!
Love,
Elder Jarman
(Picture Credit Elder Mecham)
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