Ups and Downs, building Patience

Hey there Everyone, we had a super busy week, but it was a good one.

The Family History Center: So one of the people that we met last week was Ryan, who was Irish. This Wednesday we went with him to the Family History Center, and he loved it. He connected one side of his family and loved looking through their history. We had to leave before being able to teach much, so we planned on visiting him on Friday. We did, and we found him outside just as we were walking to his house. After talking to him and teaching him a little bit, he admitted that he was a Less Active member, and then we found out he wasn't interested in coming back or meeting with us to be taught. He did say he'll go back to the family history center though, because he loved it. And that we'll see him around. It was sad to hear, but we'll find more people that are ready.

General Conference

This week just flew on by, it seems that I was just emailing yesterday. If you have any requests for what to put in my emails, please ask away. I don't want to make it get old or routine after a good amount of time. This week was amazing and it was mainly focused on General Conference, but here's about that and a few other points.

A dog that does bite

This week was super eventful. one of the main things was the sudden drop in temperature. It went down from 90's to 40's in about 2 days, so my reacted badly at first but I am not acclimating. Winter is starting again, which means thermals, coats, long sleeve shirts, wool socks, boots, gloves, hats, and hand warmers. Here's some of the highlights from the week.

Miracles and Food

Antolin: So this was an amazing miracle in this past week. On Wednesday night, my last night being with Elder Chojnacki, we got home and were about to go in for the night, when we thought to check the mail. So we go and check the mail, and then look across the street because we just got junk mail and saw someone fixing and working on their car. We felt to walk over and start talking to him, so we did. The only thing that we were able to help with was holding a light while he fixed it, and it started and worked. He then suddenly told us his story and his situation. His name was Antolin, he is in his 20's. He was baptized a member of the church when he was 8, but a year or two later when his mom left the church he went inactive. His dad told us to just get religious, and he wants to come back to church. 

Transfers

Everyone,
This past week was really really amazing. There were just 3 major parts that stood out from the week, so here it is.

Hay on a Saturday

Hello,
Here it is.

Wyatt and Adam: So last Tuesday we had an interesting lesson with some of our main investigators, Adam and Wyatt. So they have been progressing really well, but we had a funny surprise. When we asked them on Tuesday what the Spirit was, because we were talking about receiving an answer if the Book of Mormon was true, they answered with all three members of the Godhead. So we had to back pedal quite a bit, and we taught about that this past Friday, and for the lesson on Tuesday taught what the scriptures were agian. Because they are younger, 9 and 12, and don't have the greatest attention span, they were 'paying attention',  but not retaining too much of it. 

Fishing

Heriberto and the Visitor's Center: So this past week, we had a lesson with Heriberto on Thursday. The plan was to pick him up and go to the visitor's center with one of the branch missionaries for the Spanish branch. So we get to the VC, about 10 minutes late, and they gave the theater over to someone else. So we sat in the Witnesses of Christ room and watched an old conference talk in Spanish and discussed it. Then on Saturday we tried for the second time. With the Salazar's, we drove to the VC again, and we were able to watch the videos. the videos were "Days of Harmony" and "Day for the Eternities". They teach about the translation about the Book of Mormon, and the coolest thing that I hadn't noticed before was about what Joseph and Oliver did at one point. They had to get out of Harmony, and they felt impressed to write a letter to the Whitmer family and ask to stay at their home to finish the translation. It might've offended them, and it was probably scary, but they still did it and the Lord prepared a way for His work to be completed. It was great for Heriberto too, the major things that stood out to him was the faith in Christ that these people had. 

Zone Conference with 70's

Everyone,
This past week was pretty awesome. We had so many cool things happen, and I'm grateful to be serving God right here in Idaho. I'll get right into it.

Week 2 in Ammon

So I am running out of time this week, but it was a pretty amazing week. I have become a lot more accustomed to the new Area and to my new companion, and there is a lot of work and progress that the stake can make.