Week 10: New Transfer, new me....hopefully!! 10/1/2018

Hey guys!! It is sooo good to be writing you again!!! Thank you for all your wonderful emails and your powerful words of encouragement!! It has been a pretty awesome week!! Can't believe this is already my 10th p-day, or is it my ninth? I can't tell! It gets hard keeping track the longer being out here!! Well, it was a pretty slow week with the work part of it. It was still really busy nonetheless. Had some more good experiences and was able to get in with a lot of people and met new ones for sure!! Got to meet some more missionaries as well. Since transfers just recently happened, my district and zone got shuffled around a little bit. Said goodbye to the missionaries getting transfered and said hello to the new ones in our area. Also, some new, new missionaries in the zone as well. I am glad to say that I am not the least experienced missionary in the zone as we got some new, fresh ones who recently got done with the MTC!!

Again, since this past week was the start of a new transfer. We were also busy creating new transfer visions and set new goals as well. Personally, and as a companionship!!! For the next 6 weeks, the thing I am working on is- "forget yo-self." Last transfer, I have found that it was super hard to be desirous in doing the lord's work when I had other things from back home, like family, friends, music, 2k, distracting me from what I really came out here to do. What I am trying to do is to put all of that aside so I can be more focused in doing the lord's work. I have seen in the past week with me experiencing with that a little bit, the promptings and guidance from the Holy Ghost a lot more!!! I have made plans that instead singing or thinking of my favorite songs from back home while biking, play the book of mormon audio on my phone while I am biking. It is still really hard to not get distracted though. When you get to that point when you feel totally focused and thinking to yourself: nothing can distract me anymore! Boom! A car pulls up right next to me playing a Post Malone song. Than it feels like I go right back down to square one again. With this new transfer vision, it is also going to help me out a lot of putting other people before myself. To always be looking for ways to turn outward. I have found that out here, it is impossible NOT to think about yourself. But when you are constantly thinking on the welfare of others. It makes it easier!! As a companionship, me and my comp are trying really hard to get into the spirit of finding. We have set a goal for with every planned appointment that falls through, we will knock two neighbors doors on that same street!! That is in addition to are regular tracting schedule. Hopefully with that, we can find those people that the lord has prepared for us to give them the message of the restored gospel. 

Well, like I said, it was a slower week with the missionary work. A lot of appointments fell through at the last minute. We had 7 people who said that they would try to come to church. Set some pretty high expectations on ourselves on got a little to overly excited with that number. Guess how many people actually came yesterday... A flat out zero. We were pretty disappointed. We are gonna work extremely hard this week to try and get these people to come to church!! We need to help them take that next step. It is a lot harder than I thought it would be!! Our investigators and members are still doing pretty well though. It felt like a pause in progression with some of our investigators because it feels like we haven't been able to see them in a while. We will get with them this week though! That is priority number 1. A funny story that happened. Remember that girl Tiffany, the yelling lady, who I told you about last week.we tried to go see her last week. Man, whenever we are on her street, something bad happens, like when she yelled at us all those times. We call it the street of unfortunate events. This time, when we were talking with her, there was this cat getting absolutely MAULED by these two huge dogs. She, being the animal lover that she is, started freaking out and screaming bloody murder. Eventually she saved the cats life. She was ticked!!! The person who owned that cat came over and she started screaming and cussing at him for not keeping an eye out on his stuff. THen she came to us and started talking about how much she really hated that guy. Saying he treats his kids really bad and doesn't give a crap about anything. Well, that was quite a show to watch!! She is pretty scary when she gets angry. (Us knowing from experience). We are still trying to find a time where we can actually get in with her and have a conversation about religion!!

Well, that was the rundown this week. Always looking for more things ahead. Never satisfied!! I love all of you and I hope you all have another awesome week!! Stay healthy and safe!!!!!!!!

Love,

Elder Weese

1) View from the apartment balcony... before a rainstorm

2) These things are getting out of hand!!!

3) Satan's trickery!