Trying to Work Hard

A dinner appointment - in green!

It's summer...at least weather-wise right now! We paid for this nice weather with a cold and rainy day this past week but right now it couldn't be nicer. Sister Kim and I mistakenly thought that we could bike in the rain without getting too wet. It turns out not. We rode our bikes over to try and visit a less-active (who wasn't home) and we got absolutely soaked! So we came back home and changed and by that point, though, the rain was gone. So we blow-dried our bike shorts and got back on our bikes again and went out. The weather certainly played tricks on us that day. 

This week we had interviews with the mission president--President Watkins. He is such a wonderful leader and he really wants to help us to the best of his abilities. He was very well aware of the fact that Fremont is slow-moving when it comes to baptisms so he told me that what is most important is my input--diligence, enthusiasm, hard work--and the output is up to Heavenly Father's will and people's agency, things that I don't really have control over. So that is what I'm going to do and enjoy every minute of it!

We still don't have any investigators so we have been doing our best to visit as many people as possible: people who had investigated the church before (formers), people who have expressed interest before (potentials), less active members of the ward, and even some active members as well. This past Saturday all of our appointments fell through (we only had two) so we biked all around Fremont searching for people. We had some great successes. We learned that some people had moved, some people were just not interested in the slightest, we found out that some people exist (an improvement from not knowing if they actually live there), and some people were actually kind of interested, and one very sweet retired couple actually let us in! The wife is a member (but not active) and the husband is not a member. We chatted for a while and found out that she is a part of the Daughter of the Utah Pioneers group and he fought in the Korean war so Sister Kim talked with him about Korea for a little bit and I talked about my pioneer ancestry. She gave Sister Kim and I a glass of 7up and a loaf of homemade Amish bread to take home (the Amish bread was delicious by the way). So on Saturday we visited 14 homes in all and we contacted 75 people. It was a very full day. 

The members of the Central Park ward are absolutely wonderful. One of the Sisters in the ward, Sister Huber, is a great friend to the missionaries. Sister Huber is a convert to the church, she does hair for a living, and she is from Mexico. We went over to her home yesterday to read the Book of Mormon with her and she was in the middle of dying Erica's hair! It turned out to be wonderful because we got to get to know Erica and she got to know us a little bit. Erica is a wonderful Christian lady and even has some LDS ancestry. So while we were waiting for the color to set in Erica's hair we all read the Book of Mormon: 1 Nephi 9-11. Erica had never really read the Book of Mormon before so it was interesting for her to find out that it was written by prophets that testify about Jesus Christ just like all other prophets. We didn't really go much deeper than that but it was a great way for her to get exposed to the Book of Mormon. Hopefully it planted a good seed.