Hey family,
So this week was really good, Richard is still doing great and
really excited for his baptism. The other day one of the ward
missionaries was at the temple and purchased Richard a really nice set of
scriptures in Spanish as a gift for his baptism. I am really excited about that;
it will be nice for him to have!
We have been struggling though I guess you could say with
finding new people to teach. We have found a few solid potentials but nothing
to good yet. We met a man the other night named Wallace and he was a potential
from our Area Book. And so we went and visited him and guess what is so crazy
about him? We introduced ourselves and he was like oh ya I just got done
reading your Bible, and we were like uh what do you mean? And he said " I
will show you, be right back." Then he walks back out to us holding the
Book of Mormon and he says, "This book, I just got done reading this book
and I love it, I read it all the time, it's on of my favorites." Well we
were more than shocked and we asked him when he got that book and he said
"ohh like 30 years ago." WHAT... That is so crazy. We asked him
if we could come back and talk to him more about the Book of Mormon and what he
liked about it and he said that we could but that he is really busy all of the
time. He sleeps all day and wakes up at 6pm so that he can get ready to
go to work. He does a taxi business and he drives all night long, and he
was also telling us how his wife is a schoolteacher and that she is at work all
day during the school year, so they really never get to see each other. Wallace
also plays the guitar and he plays gigs for churches. So we definitely have
some obstacles with him. But if we were able to set up times to meet with him
in his busy life he would be the most solid investigator there ever was! So I
am really hoping that something will happen. But if not I think he will be ok
because he so is going to get baptized one day.
We also had a bit of an interesting night last night. Sister
Petersen and I were out trying to contact less actives and potentials and
whomever we could find and we went to visit a less active family that we had
never met before, well holy cow is not the sufficient term to explain what
happened. We knocked on the door and you could see the lady looking at us
through the window at the top and then we heard her say, "How did they
find us, what are the doing here!!" Then she flung open the door stepped
out and got right in our face and yelled "Who are you!" and I said we
are the missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of and then she cut me off
and yelled "What do you want!" And then she proceeded to say some
other colorful things that I won't repeat, and was yelling at us about our
church and the prophet, etc. etc. and how she is not a member anymore. And so
we tried to explain what she could do so that she wouldn't be a member anymore
and that unless she did so other members of the church unknowing of her
feelings toward the church were inevitably going to stop by in the future. Well
she didn't listen and continued to yell over us and wave her arms up in the
air, and then she walked back inside and slammed the door and you could hear
her yelling at her husband about how did they find us and why this and why
that. So we left her a nice note telling her we were sorry if we upset
her and what she could do to remove herself, etc. etc. But wow I was so
shocked, it has been quite a while since someone yelled at me quite like that,
but man she really just went ballistic on us. Oh well when we left I just felt
really sorry for her. She doesn't realize what she is doing. I think
that's what brings me the most sadness on my mission is when people get so
upset with you and call you things and you just think, Jeeze I don't care what
you say or do to me, but please you don't realize what you are giving up and
what situation you are putting yourself in! We had another experience similar
to this one this week as well. I was on exchanges with my old MTC companion
Sister Thomson, and we were out tracting and some man got really mad at us and
was calling us all sorts of things and saying that we were crazy and a cult and
that we worshiped Joseph Smith and junk
like that. He was a bit more civil though and at least allowed us to say that
we only worship Jesus Christ, but for the most part he was just rude too. Oh
well I guess... One day they will all learn. I just hope that I am the one that
gets to teach these people again, I so want to see their faces when the realize
what the truth is... *sigh*
Well I wish I could write more but my time is up. I love you all
and I will see you really soon!
Sister
Jamison
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