January 21, 2013
Dear Family,
This week was slower and a little
discouraging. Almost all of our lessons fell through and we feel that
Michael is constantly trying to dodge us. We did end up having one lesson
this week with Michael and Gina about the law of chastity. It went well
but they still haven't decided anything and are still breaking it.
The Highlight of the week.
On Monday we dropped in on Jennifer, the lady
that we met the previous week at the wrestling match. We knocked on the
door and this girl around our age came to the door so I thought we had the
wrong door but we asked if Jennifer was home. She said yes and went to
get her. In the meantime, the son that
is the wrestler invited us in and started talking to us. He is in the 7th
grade and was excited to see us. Then we met the other daughter who is
14. As we were meeting everyone, Jennifer came down and invited us to come
and sit down in the family room. When we got to the family room we met
the husband who is a cop. He was also at the wrestling match but didn't
talk to us. They were all really nice and we had a great conversation and
Jennifer was really interested in what we do. She then asked us to tell
her about Tom Smith. We said “Joseph Smith?” She said “yes”, and we
replied by saying we will have to come back and share the story of Joseph
Smith. She said “that would be great we will have dinner and then you can
tell us about Joseph Smith”. It felt like we had been there a 100 times
and we were already great friends even though it was only our first visit.
It was fun and exciting and I can't wait to go back and blow their minds
with the restoration!
We have been doing quite a bit of tracting
this week too which has led to some good experiences. It is always fun to
go tracting because you never know what someone will say or do. It is the
biggest adrenaline rush that we get as missionaries, haha. We did,
however, find the promised land of tracting which is really just a ton of
mid-class town homes. It is fun and we hope to have some good success
come out of that area.
We also had a lesson with Paul this week which
was good we taught the Word of Wisdom and challenged him to follow it this week
and come to church. He was hesitant but I feel he will do it. We
are having him test it before we challenge him to keep it for the rest of his
life.
We did some Spanish work this week but no one
wanted to listen.
Interviews with President Topham were this
week. Everything went well but it didn't really feel like it was an
interview. It felt more like a Q and A
session and since I didn't have many questions. It was short. I wish he would ask us
more questions. All the missionaries in my district felt that way.
I Love you family and will keep great grandma,
Whitney, Sydnee and Cookie in my prayers that they will all get better!
Love Elder Mouritsen
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