Mission Probs

Tuesday- We were able to meet with a new investigator named Rodney. We taught him The Restoration. During the lesson, he kept stopping us and telling us that he could feel that what we were telling him was true!!! We set him with a baptismal date for the 15th of November!!! We also had to go on a split. I went to see Sharlene Hunt. We had to do a short lesson, cause one of the brethren that was with me had to be somewhere. We talked about Prayer. She said that it was good for me to be able to take lead cause apparantly I don't talk a whole lot while we're teaching?! I should work on that.

Wednesday- It was just pouring rain. We weren't able to do much cause of the conditions. We were able to go teach a member and help her become more confident in sharing the gospel so that was bueno.

Thursday- We did a lot of biking, but nobody was able to see us. We were able to teach Tommy. We watched the John Tanner story with him as well as Only a Stonecutter. He really enjoyed that.

Friday- Friday was crazy. We had a couple of appointments set, but they all cancelled. We were biking around trying to find people to teach. We were biking for a good solid 3 hours. We got home for dinner and I just laid down. I was so exhausted. And there's something going on with my knee.  It's in a lot of pain right now. This isn't the first time that it's happened on my mission. I might want to get it checked out. We'll see how it feels in a couple of days. After dinner, we biked a couple of miles to an appointment to find out that he wasn't able to meet. We biked home after that. Not the funnest day.

Saturday- We had our day of service. We went and helped the 3rd street community center. Elder Zonts and I helped clean up some Pinestraw. It was pretty fun, but it wasn't good for my knee, or Elder Zont's hand. We had to take him to Urgent Care. We found out that he has tendonitis. We were able to teach one lesson today though. It was followed by a lot of biking once again.

Sunday- Church was sweet. President Hancock (counselor in the mission presidency) came and spoke. He's really cool. He talked about how much of a role members play in the development in us missionaries. He really pushed for members to let us come teach them and their families. He's a very powerful speaker.

So yeah. It was a pretty rough week. There were a lot of cancelled appointments and a lot of biking involved. Still, things could be worse. I just have to keep pressing forward in faith. The Lord is in charge and is preparing me for a purpose. I love you all. 

Elder Dumont