Little Purple Pansies

I’m happy this week, as R´s baptism went very well. She was doubting a lot whether she should actually get baptized, but in the end her asking and praying about the whole thing led her to make the decision to get baptized, for which we were very grateful. Now our project will be keeping her going strong and see if we can get her husband to have more interest. He didn’t even come to the baptism, even after she invited him, which was kinda sad, but we’ll see how things go.

Last night we decided to go do some street contacting in a part of our neighborhood that we haven’t been to before. We managed to find the heaviest concentration of churches that I’ve seen yet on my mission. There was one block that just had a school, and 7 churches on it, each one at the side of another, with another 5 or 6 nearby. And all of them where having meetings at the same time. It was a bit nuts, with the Hallelujahs from one church mixing with the rock band of another, and the various pastors yells all combining to make a big spiritual ball of sound. I felt sorry for the little “God Is Love” church as the Baptist church’s singing and band made it impossible for anyone to hear there meeting. It was pretty amazing, and I wish that I had brought my camera.

As we continued to walk, it seemed that all the churches seemed to let out at about the same time, so we tried our luck with some people that we passed by. Unfortunately, it was a big group leaving from the JW's church, so we didn’t manage to get even one person to listen. More luck was had with a group of Catholic’s who thought that the pass-along cards that we were offering where saints and readily accepted.

We’re having to revamp our investigator pool, as many of them aren’t progressing. Every week we get a bunch of people who say there reading and will definately go to church…but when we show up at there house or call on Sunday morning there either asleep or are waiting for a distant relative that they haven’t seen in a while to show up at their house. (A common excuse around here. I dunno why.) Lauren’s comment about that is right, as most people are asleep when we come knocking. Also, we need to figure out how to motivate some husbands of some families that we’re teaching. We have about 3 or 4 families where the wives really want to go to church and get baptized, but the husbands either don’t want to get married legally or aren't motivated to go to church, so unfortunately progress is very slow with them. How come the men are so much harder to get to do anything?

On a closing note, some guy from the stake high council spoke in our ward yesterday about the importance of things like Family Home Evening. He explained how he always let even the smallest kid have part of the planning, even when the ended up singing “I Am a child of God” for 4 months straight every FHE. It reminded me how we used to sing “Little Purple Pansies” every FHE. Good times!

Welp, that’s about it from me.

Thanks again guys.

-Me