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Another week as a missionary is done.
This week, again, was pretty similar to last week in the sense that we are
still doing a lot of finding but we are getting so close to finding an
investigator and hopefully it will happen next week. During this week we talked
with a lot of different people, which was nice. There were even a couple of
them who seemed like they liked talking to us! He told
Sam that there are a ton of people playing Pokemon Go and they try to talk with
them. He said the Pokemon Go players
spend a lot of time around the church and the temple because they are both gyms,
or something like that. We
found someone who said we could come back sometime this week anytime after 5,
so we are hoping that he likes the message that we share with him and that he
will hopefully be our first investigator. We meet a couple of people in a park
yesterday that were playing soccer with their family and we talked to the two
moms who were just watching and they were super nice. One of the ladies broke
her arm while she was playing soccer a couple of weeks ago and we gave her a
phone number and told her to call us if she needed help around her house and we
are hoping that we can do some service for her to help her out. We also met a
really nice lady who asked for our number first incase she needed it for service
or to help with her mother-in-law that lives across the street because the
mother in law has some memory problems and she will leave the house and just
wander around and not know how to get back to the house. If we can help that
may get us in the door - but we will see where it goes.
The members in this area are great! He is in the Temple
Meadows and Badger Mountain Wards. They feed us really good food,
which is really nice. They also try really hard to find people to invite to the
ward parties and stuff like that. I think a lot of them have a hard time
talking about the gospel to there closer friends, so we are trying to give them
ideas during the dinner we have with them, so they can feel more comfortable
talking with other people about the gospel. This week we also talked with a lot
of part member families. We have
found a couple of service opportunities that will hopefully allow the member’s
of their wards opportunities for contact with them as well.
I had another exchange this time I went
out with Elder Hatch. We worked really hard, again, for this transfer, which
was nice. I think we were able to accomplish a lot. We found a dog that had
gotten out of a back yard and we were able to find where it came from and
return it - so that was cool. We spent time at a place we call the ARK. It is a place where people with special
needs come to do activities. We spent 3 hours there making ice cream in a bag,
doing yoga and coloring with them. It was an awesome experience.
We are seeing the area start to progress
from the hard work and are hoping that we see some more of that this
week.
Spiritual thought:
This week I read a talk from Gordon B.
Hinckley that I really liked. It was called "The Times In Which We Live"
and the part that really stuck out to me was this:
Our safety lies in repentance. Our
strength comes of obedience to the commandments of God. Let us be
prayerful. Let us pray for righteousness. Let us pray for the forces of good.
Let us reach out to help men and women of goodwill, whatever their religious
persuasion and wherever they live. Let us stand firm against evil, both at home
and abroad. Let us live worthy of the blessings of heaven, reforming our lives
where necessary and looking to Him, the Father of us all. He has said, “Be
still, and know that I am God” (Ps. 46:10).
This talk was given right after 9/11 but I think it
still applies today. Bad things are still happening all
around us but we need to look past that as members of the church. We need to
see the potential that people have and try to get them to reach
it! That is why I am out here as a missionary. When we are walking around we
can look at them for the people they are right now or we can try to see them in
a way that we can reach out and try to help them gain a knowledge of the church,
and help them grow spiritually and reach their potential.
Love,
Elder Sugden
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