Jorge
It was a good week. We taught a few good lessons, one in specific is Jorge. I think I mentioned him a few weeks ago, but he is the one we found on the hottest day of the summer, when no one could ride bikes. He is very humble and is willing to do anything to help him to come closer to God (although, sometimes he makes excuses). Anyways, we visited him this last Wednesday and we watched the Restaration. Afterwards, he said he liked it and felt a very emotion feeling in his heart. After explaining to him what that was and why he was feeling it, both me and Elder Christensen had the prompting to invite him to be baptized, although it was way early still. Anyways, We did end up setting a goal for him (Oct. 21st) and we promised him if he read scriptures, went to church, he would have the desire and strength to make it to his baptismal date and recieve blessings. It was really cool. So, he also ended up coming to church yesterday and it seemed like he enjoyed it. He basically has two obstacles 1) Drinking…he seems to drink a lot, something he mentioned the first time we met him, he told us he wants to do this (the gospel) to help him quit, 2)He and his girlfriend are not married and have lived together for 5 years. Well, she is also american but she seems pretty supportive for him to quite, she actually drove him to church yesterday…we’ll try teaching her, so that they can get on the same page. Other than those 2 obstacles, he seems great and interested in learning more.
Lets see…what exciting happened this last week??? It was pretty much the norm. This next week is the last week of the transfer and then the next one will just be 5 weeks. I have a personal feeling that Elder Christensen will be transfered, he has been here for 6 months…so I’ll probably end up getting a new companion…It should change some things up. And also, I don’t know if I have mentioned it before, but President Wallis is supposidly going to keep missionaries in areas longer, like minimum 4 1/2-6 months maximum 7 1/2-9 months..should be crazy….Maybe I’ll only have one more area? Who knows…I’ve actually just gotten under 10 months left…pretty crazy…huh?
Anyways, sorry this letter is a little short, the weather has cooled off a little bit, it’s been quite nice some days.
Have a good week,
Elder Hardy