Hello world!
So, this week has been...interesting. It's kind of been a roller coaster to tell you the truth. On the one hand, I've been learning how to overcome my awkward shyness and talk to people, and how to be a better missionary. On the other, we're losing investigators fast.
At the beginning of the week, we dropped several people who simply refused to progress in the gospel. They didn't keep any commitments, they cancelled any and all appointments, etc. So, we dropped them. It's always sad to drop someone, but we can't be meeting twice a week with people who don't want to progress.
And then we were dropped by several people who we thought were super solid investigators. Which has been kind of disheartening. So, we're trying to get new investigators, which means tracting. We're doing our best to get referrals, so fingers crossed on that front.
Ok, enough doom and gloom.
It snowed!!!! None of the snow stuck, but it snowed! Elder Forrest and I frolicked through it while we were on exchanges. Elder Smith took our picture, but since he is heading to a meeting in Denver, I can't get the pictures I wanted to send. My companions being the Zone Leaders, they often drop me at the District Leader's, and head to meetings in far-off towns. Elder Gish is the District leader, and he and his companion, Elder Schmidtke live in a member's home, so they technically have a pet German Shepherd where they live. Color me a little bit jealous.
We did some service on the day it snowed. We moved some irrigation pipes in the snow, which was really fun. We also chopped some wood once the snow had stopped, and that was a lot of fun as well.
Oh, something else. ORLANDO IS GETTING BAPTIZED. I don't take very much credit for this, since he has wanted to be baptized since before I came out, but now that President has given his Ok, we are baptizing him this Friday. I'm sure I'll get a picture to send home. Orlando's great. He understands so much and is so ready to be baptized. It's awesome to see him take this step, and to see how excited he is for it.
That's pretty much all for this week. Thank you all so much for all the support. Emails, letters, anything, I really appreciate it all! You are all the best!
Until next week, I love you all!
-Elder Carl Hanley
Thank you Kara for posting these letters and maintaining the blog.
ReplyDeleteOf course! It's a lot of fun, and he'll have all of his letters saved to look at when he comes home. :)
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