Hey,
I can't believe Riley is in the MTC. That is really
weird. He will probably hate it, but he will tell you guys he loves it in the
emails.
At least for the first few weeks. Then he might admit how
much he wants to get out of there and into the field. He will be going into the
field just before Christmas. That is going to be tough.
So yes it is transfer week. Most people will find out
Tuesday morning where they are going but Elder White has promised he will tell
me tonight. So only a few more hours and we will know what is happening.
He also told me one of us is leaving, which is pretty
suspenseful. I have a feeling it is me, but it could be either of us. I just
feel like I have done what I have been supposed to do here. 6 more weeks would
be alright I guess. Elder Erickson is a great kid but if you met him I think
you could see it is tough to live for 12 weeks on an island with just him. He
just has no fire in him, no risks taken and always just wanting to be
comfortable. He has grown up a lot already in the 3 months though. I don't
think he realizes it but he is not quite the same kid he was when he arrived.
The temple work sounds great... I'm impressed you guys
are inviting so many people. And I also have some good videos of our fire. I
can't wait to see Brad's. That one sounds quite a bit bigger actually.
If you want to send a generic email that is fine with me.
Maybe send a generic one with a personal bit each at the end. Riley is going to
need some good emails but he probably won't have as much time to reply to them.
The week has been eventful. Lots of knocking. Lots of
cool potential investigators who will become investigators this week. We found
more potentials in the last 6 days then in the first 30 days of the transfer.
So that was cool.
Do you remember this lady named Bernadette we were
teaching? We were over there last monday night. We had a really good teach, but
then as we were leaving we were just standing in her kitchen chatting. I was a
bit bored and so I was lighting this candle on her table. The wick had like
burned away, so it would light for 3 or 4 seconds and then burn itself out. So
I kept lighting it and it would burn out a few times but then I got bored and
we left. She went to work like an hour later.
She called us the next morning in hysterics. She was
crying and yelling and just a mess. She is a old crazy portugese lady who
speaks very bad english so it was hard to understand. But it in the end, I
guess the last time I lit the candle it didn't burn out. And she didnt' notice
it burning before she left work. So it sat there burning all night until she
got home. The candle burned down a few inches. But before you think I burned
the house down, nothing happened. Her main concern was that her cat might have
jumped onto the table and caught fire. She said she never wants to see us again
and that she can never trust visitors in her house ever again and loads of
stuff like that.
We had been seeing her like 2x a week for a couple
months, and had become pretty good friends. I thought. Apparently not though.
So she is gone. I felt horrible and depressed and beating myself up over it for
a couple of days, but I am starting to see now she over-reacted a bit and maybe
there was some other concern there that she just didn't tell us (the last teach
we had where this all happened was the word of wisdom). So that sucked.
Also, we had a few people come to church with us. One
lady Jacky is an active member of the church of scotland. She is really posh
and really nice, in her 50's and we volunteer with her at the charity shop we
work in every thursday. So she took us on a tour of the island on last monday
(and is taking you guys on one as well next summer) and said she would like to
come to our church. We said of course. So she came to church. The speakers were
Erickson and our first counsellor in the branch presidency, Manuel. Erickson
gave a really good talk, but Holly's three kids were running around screaming,
just doing there normal thing. And jacky used to be the headmistress of a
school, so she is really not used to mis-behaving kids. Erickson's was good,
but he can be a bit monotone at times. And then Manuel goes to speak. He
apparently forgot he was speaking today. So he stands up and just starts
rambling in his broken English. And then opens up to Alma chapter 7 and reads a
few verses. And then keeps going. And he reads the entire chapter. It takes at
least like 10 mintues. The kids are still running riot. But the worst part. He
read it all in Portugese.
He can't read English. It was insane. And then he just
rambled a bit more. It was literally the worst talk I have ever heard. And I'm
sure Jacky was like what the heck is this. We also had Ursula there. About
6 mintues into his reading, she tapped my arm and said
she had to use the toilet and left. She never came back in. She decided she
would rather walk for like 2hours home then endure that talk. I was considering
following her. So that was pretty discouraging but also I was trying not to
laugh at just how absurd it was.
The other cool part of our week was yesterday we picked
up a new investigator family. They aren't really golden or anything, we met
them two weeks ago knocking and we tried back by and they let us in.
They are active CoE and we got to share a message with
them about the BoM and they said we could come back next sunday and teach them
the restoration. They are really cool, a husband and wife and their 15 year old
daughter. So there are some good things happening here at the same time some of
our old people are falling through.
Thanks for the email. Thanks for the great example you
have set to both me and Riley. Neither of us would be out here without your
help.
And mom's. Have a good week,
Love Elder Steed
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