Well it's been another great week here in Petoskey! We worked hard and
accomplished a lot of things. the weather here is still cold and it snows
everyother day. haha. but soon it'll be spring. it's gonna be weird when spring
hits and i don't pull out an areater! haha.
This week was a good balanced week.
We taught Gina some of the commandments and she loved them. she agrees with all
of them and has prayed about all of them. the only downer is that we taught her
on saturday and she had relapsed that day! she'll get there though! one in a
week is a lot better than where she was. i think she gets confident with herself
so she stops following the program. so we are going to tell her that she needs
to be exactly obedient for the whole week so she can be rid of smoking. we had a
couple pretty blunt lessons with people. there are a couple of our investigators
that are at a stand still, so we told them if they didn't start keeping
commitments that we weren't going to be able to drop by anymore. it worked
though, cuz for the most part they kept there commitments. we had a really cool
lesson with an investigator named Ron. he answered the door and saw it was us
and told us he was having a terrible week and just ranted to us for like forty
minutes and we just listened. then after he was done we were able to share a lot
with him about scripture study and the blessings of the gospel. his whole
countenance changed. you could tell that he was feeling the spirit and he even
told us that when we come by he is so lifted up and feels that spirit. it was
amazing to see the spirit work on him. the church is true! otherwise a bunch of
teenage boys and girls but especially the boys (the missionaries) would have
destroyed it a long time ago. haha. do you people remember my sense of humor?
haha. well the lord seems to be making my personality work thus far. haha. We
also had a cool experience in a card shop (i hate going there) one of the less
actives in our branch owns it and it's a card shop and the cards are creepy and
weird. but anyways, we go there to help her out. while we were sorting cards for
her this guy came in and asked who we were and we taught him and the less active
bore her testimony on some things, and it was just a really good experience. the
guy really appreciated us talking to him. We also had our half mission training
on thursday. we had to wake up at 5 to get to it by nine though, cuz it was half
the state away! haha. but we made it there and back safe. We talked a lot about
using visuals while teaching and how to follow the spirit when door knocking and
not just have some wrote thing that we say every single time. it was really
good. it came in handy especially on saturday when we were teaching kevin, the
guy that had a lot of plan of salvation questions. we went to his house and went
through the plan of salvation with him and he just wasn't getting it and i
remembered that i had paper in my scriptures in case i wanted to use a visual
for a lesson so i drew him the diagram of the plan of salvation and he got it
and it clicked a lot more for him. he has sooo many questions. haha. so we are
going to teach him the gospel of christ next lesson. we haven't even taught him
the restoration yet. we've told him the general stuff and explained about joseph
smith, but he has so many questions about other stuff that we don't feel like
it's quite time to go through the restoration in depth with him. I hope all is
going well out there! i'm jealous of the spring time weather, but i'm sure when
summer hits here i'll be begging for winter to be back. haha. well, you stay
classy san diego!
Well it's been another great week here in Petoskey! We worked hard and
accomplished a lot of things. the weather here is still cold and it snows
everyother day. haha. but soon it'll be spring. it's gonna be weird when spring
hits and i don't pull out an areater! haha. 
This week was a good balanced week.
We taught Gina some of the commandments and she loved them. she agrees with all
of them and has prayed about all of them. the only downer is that we taught her
on saturday and she had relapsed that day! she'll get there though! one in a
week is a lot better than where she was. i think she gets confident with herself
so she stops following the program. so we are going to tell her that she needs
to be exactly obedient for the whole week so she can be rid of smoking. we had a
couple pretty blunt lessons with people. there are a couple of our investigators
that are at a stand still, so we told them if they didn't start keeping
commitments that we weren't going to be able to drop by anymore. it worked
though, cuz for the most part they kept there commitments. we had a really cool
lesson with an investigator named Ron. he answered the door and saw it was us
and told us he was having a terrible week and just ranted to us for like forty
minutes and we just listened. then after he was done we were able to share a lot
with him about scripture study and the blessings of the gospel. his whole
countenance changed. you could tell that he was feeling the spirit and he even
told us that when we come by he is so lifted up and feels that spirit. it was
amazing to see the spirit work on him. the church is true! otherwise a bunch of
teenage boys and girls but especially the boys (the missionaries) would have
destroyed it a long time ago. haha. do you people remember my sense of humor?
haha. well the lord seems to be making my personality work thus far. haha. We
also had a cool experience in a card shop (i hate going there) one of the less
actives in our branch owns it and it's a card shop and the cards are creepy and
weird. but anyways, we go there to help her out. while we were sorting cards for
her this guy came in and asked who we were and we taught him and the less active
bore her testimony on some things, and it was just a really good experience. the
guy really appreciated us talking to him. We also had our half mission training
on thursday. we had to wake up at 5 to get to it by nine though, cuz it was half
the state away! haha. but we made it there and back safe. We talked a lot about
using visuals while teaching and how to follow the spirit when door knocking and
not just have some wrote thing that we say every single time. it was really
good. it came in handy especially on saturday when we were teaching kevin, the
guy that had a lot of plan of salvation questions. we went to his house and went
through the plan of salvation with him and he just wasn't getting it and i
remembered that i had paper in my scriptures in case i wanted to use a visual
for a lesson so i drew him the diagram of the plan of salvation and he got it
and it clicked a lot more for him. he has sooo many questions. haha. so we are
going to teach him the gospel of christ next lesson. we haven't even taught him
the restoration yet. we've told him the general stuff and explained about joseph
smith, but he has so many questions about other stuff that we don't feel like
it's quite time to go through the restoration in depth with him. I hope all is
going well out there! i'm jealous of the spring time weather, but i'm sure when
summer hits here i'll be begging for winter to be back. haha. well, you stay
classy san diego!
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