Nov. 25, 2013
Hi Family and Friends,
There have only been a couple of
days since my last email so there is not a lot to talk about. Most of the
time we have been helping people move or raking leaves. It seems to me
that the leaves do not stop falling until the snow finally falls which is
disappointing because we have to keep raking the same yards over and over again
because it hasn't really snowed yet.
We did have the opportunity to meet
with the C’ family since my last email. The C’ family is awesome.
Side tangent time, out here in the East there are a lot of Italian people, and
there is a simple rule whenever you go over to an Italian person’s house.
The rule is: they will feed you, and you will eat it, otherwise it is
offensive.
I first learned this rule after we visited an Italian woman
early on in my mission. We had already had two dinners for one reason or
another and then we stopped by this woman’s house. And of course as the
rule goes we had to force down a third huge dinner. Luckily now that I am
a little wise in my age as a missionary I did not make this mistake with the C’s.
Every time we walk into their house we hear, “hopefully you came hungry”, which
is soon answered by an "always” from the two of us. We had a
good lesson with the C’ family this last time because it was the first time we
actually started to teach something. We had just barely gotten them to
agree to take the missionary discussions on our last visit with them.
My
companion and I agreed that before we started the lessons that we should have
an opening lesson about "Who Jesus is." We felt this because
all of the members of this family all have different religions and none of them
really know anything about Christ. It was amazing to me
to see how willing they were to accept the things that we told them about Jesus
and the things that he did for us. I felt that they were all listening to
the things that were said and that they truly would pray to know if the things
we taught are true.
Something that I think is a great
lesson from this is that you never know who will be interested in the
gospel. The member that introduced us to this family did not think that
this would have ever gotten this far. Despite this, in her desire to
fulfill her role as a member missionary, she simply invited them to a ward
activity.
Never did she imagine this family whose current religions are
Wicca, Catholic, atheist, and the worshipping of Greek Gods would ever be
interested in the gospel, let alone take the discussions from the
missionaries. Now the family gets excited for our visits with them, and
tells the member all about what we taught them. You can never tell what
the Lord has in His plans.
Elder Erb
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