Good Week (June 5, 2013)

This has been a weird week because P-day got moved. It has really just thrown off my week. But it has been a good week. We had a really good district conference call on Thursday that really motivated us and helped us focus on finding, which is something we have struggled with recently. We left our flat after that and found a couple potential investigators, and later found a new investigator. Sunday was good because we were surprised when our Korean investigator came to church. We have been struggling to teach him and he does not get much out of sacrament meeting because of the language barrier, so we are going to try and get him to come just to Sunday school if he is only going to stay for an hour. He said he couldn't because he had something to do, so we thought he wasn't going to come to church at all, but then he showed up, which is good because there is something that gets him coming back. Then on Sunday I got a real boomerang from a returning aboriginal less active. He looks for artifacts before they put in a mine site, and makes his own stuff in his spare time, so he gave us a boomerang each. He told us before that he could sell them for $300 as a pair, so I am really glad to get them for free. Also I learned that there are different types of boomerangs, and that these ones are for fighting and not hunting. Now I am really interested in learning more about aboriginal culture.

We also had a cool lesson yesterday. It was one of the potentials we had found last week, we were able to have a really good lesson with him. It is an 18 year old who wasn't sure if there was a God, but was interested in finding out if there was one. It was cool seeing his face that he was feeling the spirit. It was a little awkward at the end because we had taught him how to pray and we asked him if he could say a prayer, but we forgot to ask him to give a vocal prayer, so he started reading silently. We didn't know how to react, but it was cool because we were able to talk to him a little about how he felt, and he said he felt a peace, so we talked to him a little about that. Also he had started to read the Book of Mormon before we even could tell him we were leaving. It was really cool to see him feel the Spirit and cannot wait to teach him later this week to see what he thought of the Book of Mormon.

I love you all

love,

Elder Cook