Sept. 23, 2013
Dear people,
This week went by so fast. I find that the busier you are the faster the mission goes, which is sad because it is when you are busy that you are having the most fun. To start off, I want to pick up where I left off last week about the media referrals. So for those who don't know what a media referral is and did not read last week's email, it is a referral sent to us by Salt Lake.
As we were going about contacting all of our media referrals, one of them found us. One of our members brought their neighbors to church and they just happened to be people that requested us to come by their house and give them a Book of Mormon. They are a young couple from China and they happened to be in Utah and took the tour of the temple. There they met a nice young missionary that was also from China. They got to talking and were interested in knowing more about what we believe as a church.
Now to explain this couple, simply they are golden. They do not want religion pushed on them, but are just searching for truth. We shared with them the restoration and asked them if they would pray to know if it was true. At the end of the lesson they explained to us how they were worried that we would try to force them to join our church.
They told us that for some reason they felt comfortable talking with us about their questions and that the commitment we left with them did not scare them off because they felt comfortable around us. For me, it helped me realize how important it is to have the spirit in the lessons. I believe that the spirit opened up their hearts so that they would feel comfortable asking questions around us.
As we were going about contacting all of our media referrals, one of them found us. One of our members brought their neighbors to church and they just happened to be people that requested us to come by their house and give them a Book of Mormon. They are a young couple from China and they happened to be in Utah and took the tour of the temple. There they met a nice young missionary that was also from China. They got to talking and were interested in knowing more about what we believe as a church.
Now to explain this couple, simply they are golden. They do not want religion pushed on them, but are just searching for truth. We shared with them the restoration and asked them if they would pray to know if it was true. At the end of the lesson they explained to us how they were worried that we would try to force them to join our church.
They told us that for some reason they felt comfortable talking with us about their questions and that the commitment we left with them did not scare them off because they felt comfortable around us. For me, it helped me realize how important it is to have the spirit in the lessons. I believe that the spirit opened up their hearts so that they would feel comfortable asking questions around us.
Speaking of the spirit, we had a cool once in a life time opportunity just the other day. So we had a baptism on Sunday of a young girl we taught. Normally in a convert baptism they are not confirmed until the following Sunday. But because her family can only make it to church every other week we had to ask permission to get her confirmed right after the baptism.
After the baptism, we asked her father, ..., what he thought. He said that he felt very happy about what had happened. So ... is not a member, yet. I feel comfortable saying 'yet' because he wants to be a member. When he came to church the first time and the Elders Quorum President asked him if he was investigating he quickly answered, "No I am not investigating the church. I have full intent to one day be a member." Although he wants to be a member, we will have to work with him a little to get him ready to make the commitment of baptism with the Lord.
Speaking of the baptism, we invited one of the Elders who was here previously to participate in the baptism. Unfortunately while he was here, he took our car keys to get something out of our car and then took them back to his area with him. So we will probably be without a car for most of this next week which should make things interesting. So don't be surprised when next week's email starts off with, "While we were biking."
Elder Erb
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