Alright, so this week has been good, but
also kind of a bummer. We had W, on date for
baptism on the 14th of November. But on Thursday he said he wasn't ready
and that he didn't want to. I'm sure this has happened a lot in the past. We
are still going to work with him but we can't figure out what it is that's
holding him back. We have worked with him for 11 weeks in a row and we just
can't figure it out. If it's Elder F and I that solve it, or other
missionaries, it would be a miracle.
It's crazy! This week is starting week
11!!! I'm almost done with training. It kind of blows my mind.
So we haven't seen P for a while now.
He is always too busy and doesn't have time. We are still going to try and work
with him as much as possible still though. Those are really our only
investigators, except we found a Mexican family, they are so kind!!! I love
them! We went to their house the other day. And the mother, she's older,
probably in her 60s baked us cookies and told us if we ever needed anything we
could come over any time! Wow! She is so Christ like. The sad thing is that she
is moving back to Mexico in 2 weeks to be with her family back home. She has 14
brothers and sisters. So she has a massive family back home. Her daughter and
son in law live in Bedford though, we have not met them yet but we are planning
to this week.
I went on another exchange this week. I
have been on like 10 already; I'm not a huge fan. But this time was good. Our
dinner appointment fell through so we stopped at a member’s home to say hello.
THEY WERE AMERICAN!!! She ended up feeding us, She made tin foil dinners! It was
sooo nice to have American food!! They work on the military base in Hundington
so there are actually a lot of Americans in our stake. It was refreshing to
talk to an American other than a missionary. Oh ya, talking about Americans,
there was a kid walking through town centre with an Ohio State sweatshirt on, I
stopped and talked to him for a bit, he was actually born in orange country,
lived in Newport Beach and went to Newport Harbor high school!!! It was so
crazy haha, he is on a study abroad over here. Ah it kind of made me miss
Newport a little bit. But it really is such a small world. Who would have
thought I would meet someone in Bedford England that lived in Newport. Crazy
crazy.
On Friday we had a zone meeting. It was
great. The zone leaders gave great trainings on how we can plan more
effectively. It really is so important to plan well in missionary work.
Sometimes it sucks coming home and having to plan right away but there really
are blessings that come.
So ya, that's basically my week. Something that we are doing now because Christmas is coming around...so on our IPads
we have all these Mormon messages. So I decided that we are going to start
tracting houses and showing people the "He is the Gift" video. Wow!
We did is last night with a Hindu women and she felt the spirit so strong. I'm
excited to continue using it. It's such a powerful video. I remember we watched
it with the family last year.
Lords hand
I have seen the lord’s hand in keeping
my attitude positive. We have had a lot of things fall through. Well basically
everything has fallen through to be honest. But I have felt his love for me and
he really has strengthened me. The sun hasn't been out for like a week and it's
just been raining every day. One evening the sun peeked through the clouds and
it was absolutely beautiful. The fall leaves and colors illuminated all of
Bedford for about 10 minutes. I knew the Lord was there, making me happy and
just giving me that extra push to keep going. I am so grateful for that.
I love you all so much. I can't believe
I'm almost done training. Elder E thinks I'll be staying in Bedford, so we
will see.
Love you guys!
Cheerio
Jacob
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| Jacob washed...AND dried his wool sweater...the only sweater I sent him with!!! |
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