Hello family.
It sounds like you guys had
quiet the adventure this week, I'm glad that it wasn't the pump that
failed, aren't those expensive to replace?
So we have been
doing all of those things with our ward mission leader, even our zone
leaders and mission president know about the problem, I think the
problem is that we are getting so many baptisms with 3 sets of
missionaries in the ward that it looks like he is doing a good job, but
it's really just us missionaries and some members, pulling most of the
weight, so we don't know what to do, just hope and pray that he changes
and has more of a drive to do better.
So this week was good
and kinda bad, we have a new investigator, his name is Jeff, he was
brought to church by his friend, Mike who is a awesome member. We have
taught him the first lesson and the second, he didn't come to church
because he broke his foot about a week ago, so his pain was acting up on Sunday,
typical, but he is way cool and is accepting things very well, and is
open. He used to be catholic and then jumped around from church to
church, and then he kind of went on the deep end. He wants to change
all of that and become more like Mike, cause he sees all the good that
he does and stands for. Mike is also a convert and has a similar back
ground, so he helps out a lot when Jeff doesn't understand things.
Kinda sad news, on Friday
we where teaching Jeff and while we were there the phone goes off and
someone leaves a voice mail, so after the lesson we listened to the
message and it was from Leland. "He said that he wasn't coming to church
no more, thanks for the baptism, it meant nothing to me, I don't want
to hear anymore about Joseph Smith and all that bull crap
(censured). Don't come looking for me, don't call me, if you do I'll hurt
you". It didn't make me happy to hear when he said it meant nothing to him, I know he felt the spirit, and everything else. So that through us for a loop.
So
as we are walking to dinner, we missed a call and a voice mail, guess
who it was? If you guessed Leland, you where right. He apologized for
the words he said and was telling us that he has been drinking and is
drunk and didn't mean any of the words that he said, and that he still
wants to come to church and everything.
He came to church
but he left in the middle of sacrament meeting, I thought he was going
to use the restroom or something, but he actually left the building, and
we couldn't find him. We have tried calling him and knocking on his
door, but no answer, and this is like the 5th time he as pulled
something like this. For real, I haven't talked about it a whole lot
because he always comes back, but this time I have a feeling he isn't,
so I don't know what to do. I feel like we've done all we can on our
part to help him. I'm also getting tired of him backstabbing us
every time we extend our arms, I don't know if I can trust him anymore.
So that was the just of my week, there is more info in the letter I'm sending. Sorry that this email is a little bit late, we had a crazy morning that
we didn't have time to do emailing, so we are just doing it really
quickly.
Well got to go love you all,
-Elder Dixon
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