Tuesday
was long. We had district meeting in the morning, with a new type of
training plan. Pres. Mortensen is trying a new thing with the training
plans. That ordinarily wouldn't be a problem, but he only got it to us
late Sunday night. That meant we only printed it Monday while emailing, and only started preparing Tuesday
morning. It was very impromptu, but went okay. Right after that, we had
lunch, and visited a hospital. Elder Daniel's eyes have been acting up,
and it turned out he has a very exciting problem. He
got a viral infection that was bad enough that he got a secondary
bacterial infection on top of that. It was so bad that the doctors gave
him 3 types of eyedrops and two types of pills. Right after that, we had
correlation meeting with the branch council. Finally, after that we
could have one appointment with a recent convert family.
We had an exchange on Wednesday.
I went with Elder Harris, one of our zone leaders, to his area. It was a
very, very long day. They had no appointments, just finding all day
long! Fortunately, things were pretty fun anyway. We went all over their
area, looking for members. We found quite a few, and had a bunch of
adventures. The best one was when we were walking near the beach, and
got picked up by a random guy. He was a submarine technician who wanted
to help us out, and was pretty wealthy. Having a car in India is sort of
a status symbol, and he had a nice car. Anyway, he picked us up off the
side of the road and helped us find the next person we were looking
for. Of course, we talked with him a lot, and had some interesting
conversation. By the time we left, he had warned us to go home and stop
wasting our youth, because "you can't change this #$%^ing world anyway."
He was pretty funny, but also very fatalistic. When we found the place
we were looking for, it was actually a compound with a couple of
buildings in it. As we asked at a one of them, a very angry guy came out
and told us to leave immediately, reason unspecified. He all-but
attacked us! That night, we visited a very nice family that we had found
earlier, and had a great lesson with them.
Thursday
was interesting. We had planning in the morning, then tried to meet
with some investigators at the church. Four of them had told us they
would show up- none of them did. Fortunately, we were able to teach an
investigator at night, then go out to Madhurawada, a really far area, to
meet a member.
Saturday
was the best day we've had in a really long time. We went out early
back to Madhurawada to meet with a new investigator family, where we had
a good lesson. Afterwards, they introduced us to another new
investigator family, where we gave a blessing. After those two, we had
lunch, and visited another new investigator family, who is amazing. The
guy's name is Boby, and he is in college. He speaks amazing English, and
is very frequently available and interested. Not much more could go
right! After them, we went to yet another new investigator, then went
back to Arilova to teach a member family. Our second counselor's son is
about to get baptized, so his dad wanted us to teach him a bit.
Sunday
was the disappointing day. Despite getting 9 new investigators for the
week, none of them, along with none of our current progressing
investigators, attended church. Anyway, after church, we went knocking
doors in our apartment complex. We found a couple of devout Hindus who
shut us down, before finding a really good seeming Christian family.
They invited us in, and listened with interest up until we got to Joseph
Smith. There, they shut us down. "How can God call another prophet?
Even if he did, what difference would that make?" They really didn't
seem to get the whole "prophet" thing. After we tried to explain it
several times in several ways, they refused to get it.
Well, that was our week. Overall- really good! See ya!
FYI- Diwali is coming up! And today is my 3-months-to-go mark.
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