This week was pretty good. We still aren't meeting with many investigators except we had a good lesson with Isaiah. He doesn't want to go to church though. We invited him to go on the ward float trip so hopefully that will be good for him if he goes.
We had a crazy experience with a less active named Brother Guyer. His sister in law is threatening to kick he and his wife out of the house because of some will, and he also has had really bad phantom leg pains lately! Look that up to understand how painful it is becasue I can't really describe it to you. So he told his whole life story the whole hour we were there and then we helped our WML Brother Nevels give him a priesthood blessing. He is planning on coming back to church and said he would go to church Sunday but didn't for some reason. He also wants us to come teach him some more! I'm really glad that I acted on the prompting to call him the other day. He's hit rock bottom kind of. As we left his place Tuesday night backing up in the car, I could see the poor guy with his head down on the top of his swinging front door. i'm not sure if he was just really grateful or really sad.
That was the highlight of the week. We have another less active family we will hopefully be teaching tomorrow, brother Araiza. He is native american and really cool. We taught him this week and said he'd be at chruch but didn't show either! Goodness gracious! It makes a huge difference getting people to church because then the members actually think you're serious about missionary work. They are kind of judgmental and they don't understand how it is. We have so many good families in our ward and I just don't quite to see how to encourage them to help us find nonmembers and build enough trust with them to turn their friends over to us to teach. It's tricky stuff.
One thing I am grateful for is the atonement and the sacrament. Forgiveness for little misdeeds I am always grateful for. I become resentful really easily towards certain people but the Lord forgives me still. Maybe one day I will be able to overcome that. That is something hard to repent of. This month's charity topic is "not easily provoked: The talk included is Slow to Anger by President Hinckley.
Hope you all have a good week!
Elder Soutas
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