Our week was...... A roller coaster. On Tuesday we saw our investigator who
was going to be baptized on Sunday, and he went overboard and denied believing
in anything that we'd taught him and told us lots of very unusual things about
himself.....which was... unexpected.... then, later that day, we got a phone
call with a referral from the office.
We went to see her the next day, Wednesday, and she turned out to be an
investigator that Elder Fitzgerald had told me about that had loved everything
about the church, and then seen some anti-Mormon garbage about the temple and
called the missionaries, dropped them, moved, and changed her address.
Apparently she had a dream about us and realized that this is what God wanted
for her. Also unexpected. It was super cool, because she had some very weird
beliefs about us left over from that anti-nonsense, but she was set on us
anyways. It's just like more icing on the cake every time we tell her that this
or that isn't true, and she gets all excited because she wasn't sure if she'd be
able to accept it. (example, she thought we worshiped Thomas Monson.... uh....
what?)
Thursday was normal, which was unusual for this week.
Friday we went to see the other investigator that we had that was going to
get baptized, and he basically told us that his life had been wretched when he
found us, but that it's all better now so he doesn't want to meet with us
anymore. Also unexpected.
Saturday we went by to see an Investigator that we haven't been able to see
in weeks because he plays football and he's been crazy busy, who hasn't been
coming to church or reading his scriptures, and has stiffed us on our last
several appointments with him, and all of a sudden he opened up to us and
started asking tons of questions about faith, and he decided that he's ready to
get baptized. Also unexpected. Then we went out knocking and found two separate
families on the same street that met with missionaries over a year ago and would
love to have us come back over again. VERY unexpected.
then Yesterday our miracle referral didn't show up to church (also
unexpected, given the lesson we had with her...), but some guy that we met a few
weeks ago and we've only seen once randomly DID show up to church. Also...
unexpected.
I guess a better definition for this week would be unexpected.
Last week we were planning the baptisms of two individuals, and this
week.... we're still planning baptisms for two individuals. But they're two
different ones.... and we're still not sure exactly what happened with ANY of
the four of them.....
I'd like to testify to you that God DOES in fact, have a plan, and that He
always knows what's going on, even when it looks, to us, like nothing but
insanity. Lots of things went wrong this week, but even more different things
went right.... It's just impressed on me something that my best friend Richard
Bruner wrote this week too. We actually do a lot less than we think we do.
Mostly, we're just here, and God puts us where He wants us when He wants us
there. Pretty much the only influence we have on the situation is what our
attitude is about it. Which, oddly enough, is the most important part, because
our attitude is what dictates whether or not and how much we grow from our
experiences, as well as in what way we affect those around us. God only gives us
a teen tiny bit of responsibility, but it's the biggest little bit He could give
us.
Life's a funny thing.
Elder Christensen
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