Another great week has gone by. It hasn't been too bad living with the APs. I actually enjoy it most of the time. I got my hair cut last pday and they totally butchered my hair. She did a 2 around the entire head and before I could say anything it was messed up. Not even that, she didn't even do a good job on the buzzing. Oh well, it has started to grow back now.
We found 2 new promising investigators this week, but lost one of our semi-promising ones on the same day. Two for one isn't bad though. Some of the less-actives we have been working with are doing really well. Tristan (17) is living with one of our bishops and we ate dinner with them this past week. We talked and answered questions for about two hours. It was pretty cool. I felt like the roles swapped from when I was in high school and looked up to the missionaries in our ward. We have a similar relationship with another kid in the college ward. Kyle (20) who noticed that something has been missing in his life for the last few year and wants to start coming back to church. Devon is an investigator that I think I mentioned. He is 19 and has had two lessons with us. I challenged him to baptism at our last visit and he accepted. He also watched the priesthood session of conference and two other sessions with a member in the college ward, so that was pretty dope. He is super quiet and won't ask or answer very many questions, but he seems to be liking it and has been reading. We got him to pray this past week. He was really hesitant at first, and so we did a couple short ones to show him how it is done. Then he said a pretty long one. It was awesome. We also found out that the parents of Lok (the guy from Berma) are interested in getting baptized as well. So, we are going to go over there this week and start teaching him. The work is starting to soar, which is a nice change from my first couple of weeks in the area.
General Conference was awesome. It's so crazy how fast it flies by on the mission. There were so many different talks that stuck out to me, but the general jist of things that I liked the most was the different talks on happiness, missionary work, and the light of Christ. I also liked, but can't remember off the top of my head who said it but, "It's no longer missionary work, but missionary fun." It just reminded me of Pres Hinckley's quote that said, "Missionary work isn't a sacrifice, because nothing is a sacrifice when you get more in return than you put out." Priesthood session was also really good and my companion and I went and got some ice cream afterwards, like good ol' times.
Well hope all is going well and I love you all so much!
One Love,
We found 2 new promising investigators this week, but lost one of our semi-promising ones on the same day. Two for one isn't bad though. Some of the less-actives we have been working with are doing really well. Tristan (17) is living with one of our bishops and we ate dinner with them this past week. We talked and answered questions for about two hours. It was pretty cool. I felt like the roles swapped from when I was in high school and looked up to the missionaries in our ward. We have a similar relationship with another kid in the college ward. Kyle (20) who noticed that something has been missing in his life for the last few year and wants to start coming back to church. Devon is an investigator that I think I mentioned. He is 19 and has had two lessons with us. I challenged him to baptism at our last visit and he accepted. He also watched the priesthood session of conference and two other sessions with a member in the college ward, so that was pretty dope. He is super quiet and won't ask or answer very many questions, but he seems to be liking it and has been reading. We got him to pray this past week. He was really hesitant at first, and so we did a couple short ones to show him how it is done. Then he said a pretty long one. It was awesome. We also found out that the parents of Lok (the guy from Berma) are interested in getting baptized as well. So, we are going to go over there this week and start teaching him. The work is starting to soar, which is a nice change from my first couple of weeks in the area.
General Conference was awesome. It's so crazy how fast it flies by on the mission. There were so many different talks that stuck out to me, but the general jist of things that I liked the most was the different talks on happiness, missionary work, and the light of Christ. I also liked, but can't remember off the top of my head who said it but, "It's no longer missionary work, but missionary fun." It just reminded me of Pres Hinckley's quote that said, "Missionary work isn't a sacrifice, because nothing is a sacrifice when you get more in return than you put out." Priesthood session was also really good and my companion and I went and got some ice cream afterwards, like good ol' times.
Well hope all is going well and I love you all so much!
One Love,
Elder Larsen
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