Monday, January 9, 2012

Focusing on Finding

Hey Family!
    This week was super duper awesome!  We have been focusing on
finding a lot because the zone isn´t doing too good with it, and....
it´s doing great!  We found a new Family every day haha.  We´ve got SO
many people we can teach now it is awesome.  There´s a chapter in
Preach my Gospel all about finding, and the first thing it talks about
is developing faith to find.  We basically just changed our
expectations a little and almost everyone we talked to listened, and a
couple of people every day said they wanted to learn more.   We got 5
new investigators last week, and we are set up to get 5 more today,
and then 3 more on Tuesday, and then 3 more and Wednesday  and those
were all people found last week... we should of course find more this
week =P
    So, basically everything is going great.  We´re excited to meet
with these new people and get them progressing super well. 

    This week we were going by on a referral that wasn´t home haha.
After we rang the door and nobody answered, we turned around and saw
an old lady walking her dog.  Elder H went up and talked to her but
she ignored him and kept walking away.  Then her little dog came
running up to me.  I love dogs so I pet it and talked to her for a
little bit.  We then turned the conversation to the gospel and ended
up teaching her the Restoration.  When we asked her if she wanted to
learn more she said she wasn´t sure.  Then she told us some of the
things that had just happened with her that were rough and then she
said something awesome.  She said that we were lucky that we even got
to talk to her, she said the only reason she was outside was because
her dog kept whining to go outside, she said the dog normally just
goes to the bathroom really quick, but this time it just kept walking.
 She said she was getting ready to turn around and go home when Elder
H talked to her.  She said that when he talked to her she felt a
Force.  She decided to keep walking away, but, then her dog wouldn´t
let her because it was playing with me haha.  She said that maybe the
dog was inspired... we agreed haha.  She still wouldn´t make out a
time for us to meet though.  She said next time we see each other we
could meet.  So, the next day we decided to go to the same area to go
by on our Referral.  Just as we were getting ready to leave, we saw
that lady again.  We talked to her again, and this time she showed us
where she lived and said that we could come by sometime.  We are way
excited to meet this lady,  (I have tried to write the following
sentence 7 times now but I don´t know how to write it correctly in
English....) she seems to keep being led to us and so.... of course
we´re excited!
   Anyway, I´m doing great, thanks for your love and support!
Elder Collings

3 comments:

  1. I read this and then re-read it to Dave and just now read it to grandma and grandpa. We love your letters!! You are a great missionary. XOXO

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