Hey Dad.
So there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. Always. We tracted for four hours a day last week. Talk about working hard. We were exhausted every day when we got home that for me it was planning, shower, bed. I prayed all the time that something would open up and out of the hundreds of people that we were either talking to or were seeing us pass by, one of them would just open up and want to know.
So last week we're walking away from a house that we had an appointment at but the guy wasnt there. This happens all the time by the way. And this lady asks us where we're going. We tell her that we're heading to a different barangay (neighborhood). Then she starts to ask us who we are. So we kinda share a little about who we are, what we do and talk about the message with her. Then she asks for a card. So we give her an articles of faith card. She says she'll check it out and then we can come back and teach her next week. Then we seriously walk 10 feet and a guy in his yard stops us and asks us where we're coming from. We tell him that we're coming from an appointment but that it fell through. He also starts to ask us about whats going on with us, who we are, what we do. So we share more with him. Come to find out he thinks its crazy that there are so many religions nowadays. He's like, you know, if Christ had HIS church, you think that there would be one like it. ...........................................................................yes. There would be one like it. So I gave him a pamphlet and gave him the section on the apostasy to read. We passed by about 10 minutes later and he was reading it from the beginning! Its awesome!
So we went back Monday. He read the WHOLE pamphlet. All the way to the back. All the key terms. Everything. Twice. He was really into Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. It was the first time that we shared the whole first lesson with someone in my mission! It was great! He was calling out to his family to come and listen but they were all gone. It was great! So we're going back tonight to watch the Restoration video and to leave a Book of Mormon. So stoked.
Cool about the park. I dont know if you knew this but The Hallam's grandson is one of the missionaries that got followed in the Preach My Gospel DVDs. He's a pretty important guy in the MTC. And now I guess the church kinda watches him to make sure that things are all good with his life. They watch his facebook, myspace, he has to have a weekly meeting with Elder Ballard. I dont know everything but thats what his district mate said (who also is at the MTC). Pretty crazy. I talked to him a little bit. He's from Rocklin. Talked with him about.....very little actually.
Kinda sad about Brother Helu. Man, I love that guy. I used to stop and talk with him all the time. Great guy.
So my leg is still infected. Its sooooo annoying. You have no idea. Its starting to heal up a little bit but its still crazy itchy.
I added some pics from the last week. Some of them are from our zone tour of Bohol. Others...I cant remember which ones I added. hahaha.
Hope you have a good week and a nice time in Middle Earth....I mean New Zealand.
Love Brandon
