Well, some big things have been happening in Norman! Elder Schroeder and I have been working hard together and we are seeing some great things come out of it. We had a lesson with this man named George Herning, who is married to a member. We have been trying to get in with this family for MONTHS! We finally were able to get in with them and we got to know his stand in the church. He presented how frustrated he was with missionaries in the past. He felt as if they were treating him as a number because of how fast they wanted him to progress to baptism. He says" I just want to learn." So we promised him that we will go through all the lessons plainly and simply so he can know what we are all about. We hope that during that process he will be able to make a decision because what I have heard from a lot of people, members or missionaries, is that he is very non commital. What we are just grateful for with all of this is that we have finally been able to meet with him. He comes to church every week and has a huge history with meeting with missionaries, so we always knew he would be a good one to try and teach, and after months, we finally did, and we are going to be doing so more regularly.
We are also meeting with this man named Matt once again. We met with him when we first got here, but a few things happened with him so we had to give him some time, and after months later we had the prompting to go see how he was doing. Apparently, he had strong feelings towards the church when he was meeting with missionaries and when we stopped meeting with him, he felt hurt that the church had put him aside and so his respect for it lowered by an abundant amount. He said as we've been back twice now that his respect is back up. At this point he pretty much knows everything about the church, he's very smart. We are just focusing on the Book of Mormon, we are reading with him and giving him some things to read as we meet with him. Hopefully things will turn out with him as we do that. We have also been able to set forth our plan with some of the members as well, and that has led to some referrals. This young man in the church is dating someone who's a nonmember and he wants her to be learning about the church. He asked her and she said YES! Hopefully we can that going this upcoming week. There was that plus many more referrals that the members have been giving us to go and check in on. We also started teaching this guy named CJ. He's 17, and we found him looking for a member who hasn't been seen in YEARS. In fact, it was very scary trying to track this member down. He lived in a trailer home in the middle of nowhere. It was 8 at night, we were with a member named Brother Nelson, and as we were approaching the door, we saw a dog chain and right after that caught our eye, we heard extremely loud growling, like a bear was going to attack us. We looked a little closer and saw no dog attached to the chain, so that scared us a little more. We bravely approached the door and knocked and the first thing we asked the person that answered was, where is the dog? Luckily, it was inside. We asked for Charles and this 17 year old boy comes out. He has the same name, but he likes being called CJ. Apparently his dad, who was the person we were looking for, left him when he was 2. We thought he would be bitter with us coming to his door, but he was very curious as to what we were doing. We introduced the Book of Mormon to him and he loved the idea. We got his number, so hopefully we will make it back out there, as long as we don't get attacked by his dog.
Well, the week was good!! I loved it so much! We hope to have continual success as we enter the last full week of the transfer. We receive news for this upcoming transfer this Saturday so I wonder what will happen! I hope you all have a wonderful week! Love you all!!
1-5) Our trip up to OKC
6) Bye Spanish Elders!
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