Hello All!
This week hasn't been too overly exciting. We were able
to teach a lot of potential investigators and hopefully they will become new
investigators this week. We have heaps of other investigators and it is
becoming really hard to get them to come to church and to progress. The last
few weeks have been hard. We try so hard to get people to come to church. we
had 7 of our investigators say that they were going to come to Church. Turns
out that none of them came to church. We are working hard to find those that
are really committed. They don't seem like they are too committed when they say
that they will be at church and then they don't show up. Anyways. One thing
went really well this week.
We dropped our baptismal date on
Wednesday because we are no longer able
to get into contact with Melissa and she is ignoring us now. I wish sometimes
people would just tell us that they are not interested anymore.
But the good news is that we set a new date on
Thursday! and it seems to be somewhat
of a miracle. We went to visit one of our part member families named the Pipers
to share a quick spiritual thought. He son who has not been baptized has never
really showed much interest in being baptized, but when we talked about The
gospel of Jesus Christ lesson, when we started talking about baptism he asked
us if he could be baptized. It came as a surprise to us and we set him up to
get baptized in 3 weeks. I am very excited for the baptism. He is almost 12,
so he will be able to receive the priesthood soon. With that they whole family
is going to start coming back to church. So that means we will have reactivated
a less active family. Sister Piper was sick
yesterday, so they weren't able to make it to church, but she
said that they would be at church for sure next week. I am excited for it to
happen, and to see that family back at church!
That was the most
exciting news I have. we taught a total of 14 lessons this week between
investigators and less active members. We are hoping to make more of our
investigators progressing. None of them seem too promising, but they
become promising. That is why we
keep up with them and keep visiting them. I have faith that good things are
going to be happening the next couple of weeks here in
Townsville!