This has been such an amazing week. First I fixed my bike problems, so that in itself is miracle. Then a not so amazing experience but funny was we were teaching one of our investigators and he happened to be drunk when we turned up. And normally it is hard for him to focused but today he was falling asleep when we were teaching him. We tried to leave when he realized he was drunk but he didn't want us to, so we started to teach him. When my companion was talking he actually fell asleep. We thought about just leaving, but we woke him up and said a prayer and left. We teach some of the most interesting people sometimes. Then we have had a couple of really cool experiences. A former investigator called our branch mission leader asking for some help because his name is still in the phone book as the Branch President. He started to talk to her and she said that missionaries used to come by in the past and he invited her to come to church. She was not able to come because she was feeling sick, but we stopped by after church to meet her and she was really keen to learn about what we believe. Then we went to that less active's house who came to church and wanted us to help her come back to church. It was late so we were expecting to just set an appointment with them, but they invited us in and had a good talk. We set up expectations because she is a member and we wanted to know where she was at, but her partner is not a member and we needed to know how to help each of them. He has a basic belief in God but is not religious, but said that he is more open now than in the past. She wants to come back to church 100%. Then his mum is visiting and started to listen to the conversation. We gave him a restoration pamphlet to prepare him for next time, and the mum asked for one too, which was a big surprise. Then the Port Headland missionaries came down and are spending the P-day with us. This next week should be really good as well.
Oh yeah and we had a great lesson with our 18 year old investigator. He opened up a lot more to us and we can see the progress he has made. Right now he says he just wants to make sure that he can live the commandments, but we can see that he is trying and it looks like he will be baptized. We talked a lot about the Holy Ghost and how great the Gift of the Holy Ghost is. He says that he wants it in his life, and we had a lesson on Priesthood in Gospel Principles.
Transfers are next week and I am really sad. I love serving in Karratha and with my companion. The last couple of missionaries serving here have only been here 3 transfers, so there is a good chance I will leave next week. I will be happy to stay or leave. The Port Headland missionaries said that President Lindsay might start having missionaries stay up here less time because he doesn't like missionaries being so far from him for so long, but that might just be a rumor. Either way I will be happy.
Love,
Elder Cook
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