Great Week and Teaching

This week wasn't a super week, but it was a great week. We met with our less active and her investigating 15 year old son and it was good. We had a member there with us who was able to explain prophets and apostasy really well. After that lesson we had another lesson, kind of. We didn't count it as a lesson or a new investigator because we aren't too sure how many lights are actually on upstairs for him. It is sad a little bit, he wants to find the light but he isn't able to hold on to it once he catches a little. He has lived alone for a long time and he didn't make the best of choices as he grew up, it sounds like. So we are going to meet with him again and see if he really is accountable or if he is going to have to wait for the next life to accept the gospel. Which he will, he loves God and Jesus Christ. But it so warped and twisted by the fog of his brain and the false teaching of man in religion he has grown up with. He just can't grab the light and keep a firm grip. It just slips through his fingers. Then we had a lesson with our investigator Joe. He has a little ways to come but is coming quickly. He has a good grasp of the gospel, now to get him to have a testimony of it, and to firm the one he already has.

The family from Arizona didn't come to church this week, so we are going to text and see if everything is alright. We haven’t started to teach them yet. They want to get settled a little more before we start. So here's to them finding an apartment on our side and not the sisters, ha-ha. It was funny. We had an investigator come to church. The first time by herself since I have been here. She always sits out in the foyer with her dad because he doesn't want to go in the chapel. He says he feels judged. So when she said she was alone, I told her to get in the chapel. She said no and we went back and forth for a bit. Then I stood up, walked out, and shook her hand, but didn't let go and pulled her up. She is 17 and weighs like 115. So it took no effort then I brought her into the chapel. We even got her to sing the hymns, so yeah a good Sunday, I like not really having the silly notion that I can't be myself just cause I'm a missionary, I am just a missionary me, ha-ha.

These last few days have been the first real times that I have been homesick at all on my mission. They are random and I haven't even been thinking of home a lot lately, but that just might be it. There is a good balance probably to think about home, not too much to make you home sick and not want to work, but enough to keep you from having a really big homesickness all at once, instead of small doses throughout each day. Also, we have a brand new sister in our ward. It has made me realize that we have been out for a long time. Sometimes it feels as if I haven't done as much as I could have in the time I have had, and that I only have so much time left to try and do what I can before I am done. It’s weird. I am the oldest missionary in the ward, in age.

I have been rereading the Book of Mormon, I am in 2 Nephi. I am also in Revelations and in Job and in section 65 and I have finished the POGP. Also, I am reading the war chapters of Alma I like them they are cool.

Love

Elder Hyde

Sporting the lost and found vest and bow tie