So, Elder Andersen and I have started totally over with this area. Almost all of our investigators totally quit on us, so we hit heavy on new investigators through member references and prayer. We pretty much stopped doing tricky things to find new people and started having them introduce us to everyone they know. While that isn´t what a good missionary does with all of his members, it is possible to just ask people, and those with more faith will help. We have one lady who just showed us everybody! We found a family of 5 and another of 10! haha. Her name is Francisca, and we both love her.
She is a really childlike 60 year old lady who loves the missionaries. She loves leaving with us to introduce us to all of her friends. And she is constantly inviting people to church. We love and greatly appreciate her childlike faith. If the church were composed of members like her, the church would grow at an incredible rate!
Conference was a little stressful because we set it up using internet... kinda nuts. We missed the first session, but after that it all worked out. My comp and i may need to repent for how bad our attitudes were durring this trial. But God teaches with lots of patience, and I know that we will start seeing success here. Listening to priesthood session helped us realize a lot of things that we could change. Forward!
I love and miss you and am grateful for the letters and the package from the Berbert Fam. Also, for the letter form Casey! Loved them all, and I send you my love in advance of whatever slow reply I may send in the future. I have lost a lot of faith in sending hand written letters as I have received no news of a single one reaching anyone. Post as a comment to this post if you have in fact ever gotten anything from me.
with great love and effection,
Elder Thalman
I have received the letters you sent to me! :) I know of at least one. So you can keep emailing me or do both!!!
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