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It amazes me how many things can change in a week. This week we
had to let one of our investigators go because she wasn't keeping commitments.
That is a very hard decision to make when there is only 1 other investigator in
the teaching pool. But we felt it was necessary so that we could spend that
time finding or teaching someone else.
We continue to spend hours on end tracting with very little to
no interest. Someone even called the police on us. The police pulled up as we
knocked a door and asked what we were up to , but when we got closer he saw our
name tags and realized that we are missionaries. He then told us that someone
had reported that we were "shaking doors." We got a member to go with
us to La Honda (it’s about 25 miles south and on the border of the mission).
Sadly we got there and knocked on the door and she told us that she was
interested. It was pretty heartbreaking especially since it took a whole
afternoon to go down there and find that referral.
We decided that we need to do something new to find
investigators. So this upcoming Saturday, we will be teaching an English class.
The classes will be in the chapel so we hope that people will get comfortable
with being at the church and will start coming!
We had dinner with the
bishop and his family this last week and he told us about a couple of people he
wanted us to visit. So we of course go and visit them. But little did I know
that the bishop had a trick up his sleeve. We knocked on the door of one of
those "less actives". The bishop had told us to tell him "I'm
worried I haven't seen you in Church since January." So we knock on the
door. In excellent Spanish we got a warm welcome "Elders de Israel!
Vengan, vengan" We asked "esta su esposo" Which she replied to
with "claro, esta aqua en el otro cuarto." We walked in and as I saw
all the Church art work I began to be very confused. The husband was on the
couch, he had just had knee replacement surgery. So we started talking to them
and I told them I was from Arizona and they said, "Oh we had a handful of
Arizona missionaries" I had no idea what they were talking about. Then I
looked around and saw that they had a "predicad mi evangelio" poster
next to their mission plaque. I had no idea how these people could be less
active. But then I told them we had come on Bishop's request. They busted out
laughing and told me "the bishop got you good." Turns out this
"less active" was serving as a mission president in Mexico and got
back in in July. Also, he had recently been called to serve as the Bishop in
the YSA ward, which is why he has not been at church since January. However
this humiliation was not in vain, we were able to get 2 referrals from them!
Elder Gonzalez
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