Kerr and I have been teaching non-stop the last few weeks. As we wind down the teachings for Serge's family, because of their baptism this week, we needed to fill up more spots. But all of our investigators kept falling through. We realized all our cool investigators are college students. We were able to teach them all because the campus has been having teacher protests for months now. However, the protests ended this week and all the college students went back and poof there goes our investigators and it made us scramble for interviews a lot. Dang it college.
As you know I love choir. One of the sisters in the Relief Society found out and recruited me to help make a branch choir for branch conference in a few weeks, so I’ve been trying to do that. Elder Kerr and I are the only two men in the choir, the rest are young women. The councilor in Relief Society directs us. It’s pretty rough, but hey we will do our best with what we’ve got. It’s fun to sing again.
It was funny to see everyone on Labor Day here got the day off work and it was like everyone celebrated as if it was Christmas or New Years.
We got to see some miracles this week. One was with Sister Jo___, she has been an investigator for over a year and she just never really took the lessons seriously. However, recently she has really started listening and putting into practice the repentance needed. We have a baptism date with her for next week. We were still feeling kind of shaky but on Sunday we had a great lesson with her and she showed us how she understands the baptism and wants it "with all her heart". We were touched by her testimony and if all goes well, will be baptized this Saturday with Serges family. This will be five baptisms for me I’m so excited.
I also had an amazing lesson with the Serge’s whole family. We had been teaching them apart because they were all on different levels. Now we got them together and we saw their family had issues. Everyone was kind of tense and sad when we started the lesson but we made some jokes, taught the gospel with the spirit, did major family therapy, and they were all smiling and laughing by the end. We all prayed together on our knees and by end and I felt the joy and the spirit I haven felt since I was back with my family doing things together. It had been so long, it was a great feeling, really the joy of life is in the family.
We had my second organized service project my whole mission. We found this lady’s house to paint. It was a zone activity, so we were in charge of planning but the paint we ended up getting wasn’t great and the un-trained missionaries paint job was not professional, but hey, for a free paint job it was alright. At least it’s not just cement bricks.
Serge's family
Kerr
Zone Activity - Service Project painting a house
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