Wait for It

Happy Pday! I can't believe it's May! 

 

Wednesday we spent a couple hours volunteering in the Family History Center at our chapel. We've been going there almost every Wednesday since I got here. When I first started, I knew basically nothing about how family history worked. But now it is one of the highlights of my week. I love it!

 

Also on Wednesday we visited William again in his rehab center. He's been recovering from his fall for almost two months now, and it's been pretty frustrating because he wants to go to church so badly but he can't leave the center. He told us he should be getting home this week. But then again, he's already told us that about 4 times in the past month. So we'll just have to wait and see. 

 

Our progressing investigator Eddy is doing pretty good. He is reading the Book of Mormon and understands it well. He just needs to go to church! 

 

Yesterday we visited this cool Peruvian couple we've been seeing for a while. The English elders knocked their door a few months ago and the husband Juan answered the door and said "Hey, I think I'm a member of your church!" Turns out he was baptized in Peru when he was 8 but he hadn't been back to church since he was 10 years old so he had forgotten almost everything in the 35 years that he hadn't been to church. Over the past several months he has been coming back to church! It is a whole new world for him because he went so long without church, but he is loving it! Originally he would only come to sacrament meeting, but yesterday he went to the priesthood meeting too! Our focus with him is getting him prepared to receive the priesthood (since he stopped going to church before he turned 12, he never received it). His wife Elizabeth is Catholic, and is always willing to listen to us when we come over, but doesn't want to ever stop being Catholic. We'll see about that ;) 

 

We've been finding a ton of new investigators lately, and this week we had about 7 of them who said they would go to church on Sunday but none of them did :( We are just going to keep working hard and having faith that these people will have desires to progress and that we will also find new people who will! We're doing all we can, now we are just waiting to see results. 

 

It's interesting. This is the hardest I have been working on my mission, yet this is the longest I've gone without a baptism, and it seems like no matter how hard we try, we can't get a single investigator to church. We work so hard but we still aren't seeing many direct results of our efforts.  Hermana Bloxham and I always just collapse at the end of the day because we are so exhausted. . Yet despite all of that, I'm so happy all the time. It's weird how happy I am. Maybe part of it has to do with the awful winter finally being over. But in addition to that, something I've learned lately is that happiness is all about your attitude rather than external circumstances. So I am choosing to be happy!

 

<3 Hermana Harris

 

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