Hey family. Sounds like you guys had a busy
week, picking up Roscoe, going to farewells and doing a lot of
traveling, the pictures you sent look good, Roscoe looks really
different in those pictures, and he looks like he is getting taller, how
tall is he? I might have to cut his nee caps so he isn't taller than
me, haha Jk.
So what do you mean by a shut in? when you went on team ups with the missionaries.
I'm glad to hear that Ashley is dating a good guy, she deserves someone that well treat her well.
So this week was pretty good, Leland gave us a scare this week too, so he was baptized on Saturday morning
and he was super happy and excited, well later that day I called him to
see if he had a ride to church, but he started to tell me that he
wasn't coming back to church ever and that this whole thing was him
putting on a show and that he had many reason not to become Mormon, and
then he hanged up, so I was really down when I heard that come from him,
because he has always been excited about every thing we taught him, and
he said on multiple occasions that he knew this was true. So come Sunday
we get there early and we are still depressed about the whole thing
with Leland, so we help hand out programs and greet people as they come
in to church, and lo and behold we see Leland come walking in. We
went and talked to him in a class room to see whats up with him, and why
the sudden change again, and it turns out that he had invited his
family to come to the baptism and none of them showed up, so he was sad
because of that, and he called them after the baptism and
talked to them, and the just of it is his family has pretty much
disowned him and told him that he is going to hell because of his
decision to be baptized in the Mormon church, so he was just really
angry and depressed when I called him, and he apologized for the way he
acted and he still wanted to be confirmed a member and receive the gift
of the holy ghost. so after talking to him for awhile we could tell
that he still wanted to go through with this, so the bishop did the
confirmation, and he was really happy after that. I just hope that
nothing happens between yesterday
and today, cause we are going to go to his house today to start
teaching him the new member lessons, we are trying to teach all the
recent converts the new member lessons, because there are about 30+
converts from 2011 to now, and we feel like the ward isn't
supporting us, so we are getting worn out trying to maintain the
missionary work with just 3 sets of missionaries. Our ward mission
leader only meets with us after church for like 1 minute and then just
leaves, so we don't get much of a chance to tell him our concerns and
plans for the week. We spent the rest of the week trying to get in contact with the rest of
our investigators, but we don't have a good size teaching pool any more
cause most of them have been baptized. man I've never had this kind of
problem before
So that was the summary of my week,
other than that we are doing good, Elder Jerome and I are getting along
well, no trouble yet. He is a good missionary from what I can tell, he
is from Sacramento California and has been out for 4 months and this is
his 2nd area.
We also went to the zoo in forest park on Monday, I'll sent some pictures next Monday, since I forgot my camera at the apartment.
Love you all and hope for the best
-Elder Dixon
P.S. Any more news on the interview you had a couple of weeks ago?
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