Week #22 - Winter Quarters YSA Ward
- elderadair
- Jan 4, 2016
- 3 min read
Okay this week was pretty amazing. I would like to share an excerpt from the letter I sent to the mission president this week about one of our brand new investigators. Everything we did was in accordance with what our mission president has been telling us to do and the lesson was really spiritual.
"A couple of weeks ago, a student from BYU Idaho came to Nebraska to celebrate the holidays with her family. She came up and complimented us saying that she could tell by the way we talked and the way that we acted that we were obedient missionaries and not like some of the disobedient ones she had work around in her mission. We talked to her for a bit and eventually asked her for referrals going through the series of questions (as they apply to young single adults) that we were taught helped the spirit to bring people to the members' minds. The whole time she felt impressed to tell us about one of her friend who had investigated the church with her family a few years ago but had ran into anti-Mormon literature and had since stopped investigating. Eventually she told us about her and told us that she would follow up on her and ask her if she wanted to meet with the missionaries. A week later we got a text from the member saying that she had agreed to meet up with us. This week we met up with Savannah (the new investigator), Sara (the referee) and the first councilor in our bishopric (it so happened that he was the only one who could meet up with us that night so that a responsible male member could be present) at the church in a classroom. We taught Savannah the restoration and Brother Scott (the member of the bishopric) explained to her the apostasy and the need for a restoration when we reached that part of the lesson. He went into alarming detail which immediately made all three of us (de Graaf and I and Sara as she told us later) very nervous. Surprisingly enough, at the end of the lesson Savannah told us that it made perfect sense to her and accepted an invitation to be baptized (we will set a date this Tuesday). She told us that this week she would go to church with her family so that they weren't upset and that she is planning on coming next week to church. Sara told us that she acted extremely anxious to come to church and read the book of Mormon during the drive home. The lesson was very spiritual and has been just about the strongest I have felt the spirit yet on my mission. It was AMAZING. We have another appointment with her this Tuesday at 7:00 pm."
Other than that, my week wasn't very eventful. A lot of people came back from break yesterday but half of the ward is still missing and we don't have a large pool of people to teach.
Elder de Graaf my new companion is a pretty cool guy. He is similar to me in a lot of ways, and with each new companion I have I learn a lot about my own faults and weaknesses and make goals to improve them. Elder de Graaf and I get really distracted sometimes talking about the most pointless things. We get off topic really easily and both he and I are trying to avoid giving our attention to incorrect but marginal/unimportant details.
I expect a lot to happen in this ward in the coming months and I am excited because of it!
With firm conviction,
Elder Adair
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