Well this week has gone by so incredibly fast and as a consequence of it, I
am extremely tired, I haven't been sleeping too well lately, I think it's mainly
just because I think about a lot of things when I go to bed because there is no
other time to think about things. It's just work work work all the time with
only breaks to eat and sleep. As well Elder B does this moaning thing in
his sleep, I have no clue as to why he does it because it's not associated with
his dreams or anything he just moans a lot haha. We joke about it often. other
than that, this week we were finally able to do some real work as well as our
heater just got fixed and so we've been enjoying warm nights again. It was a
really good week though, fantastic week as far as investigators go. We had a lot
of fun and we saw many miracles.
This week we just commenced to work like how we're supposed to. We did some
contacting and tracting and all that sort of stuff, we had an exchange this week
and we just worked normally. I feel as though it was the same old same old that
we always do but the results are just different and the people were too. We
went to our family and visited them and that was great. We had district meeting
and ate some good pizza and that is always great. We taught some of our previous
investigators but most of them unfortunately aren't progressing a whole ton.
Really the family is our best investigators which isn't a bad thing, they're
doing wonderfully. The Father said to us last Monday that he has started praying by himself at nights
and he said, "it's been wonderful" and that he's been doing it for a solid 2 weeks
straight now, I am so incredibly proud of him. He's doing so great. Their entire
family is just doing wonderfully. This week as well though we saw miracles, this
man came to English class and was in our class and he asked us whether we could
meet privately, so we told him of course. He wound up being a
wonderful guy who has a strong faith in God and is very very prepared. He told
us that he was praying to Jesus Christ on Tuesday so that he could learn English better and then his
mom came home and gave him our flyer and he read it and then saw the name Church
of Jesus Christ, and he took that as an answer from God. He says God has
answered his prayers and now he wants to learn English and learn the gospel. It
was a wonderful encounter! We also visited a previous investigator this week, he
takes care of his Mom who has had a stroke and also her leg amputated and he
also talks a ton. He's really fun and nice and very grateful for the company and
he said he is willing to try learning about the gospel. He also asked us if we
could help him clean his apartment and paint it and stuff so we're going to also
serve him and we're very excited about that.
This previous week we didn't really do anything fun, I went on exchanges
with Elder Brouuseau and Elder Sharp was with Elder Boam, it was a fine
exchange. We did some work and taught this one guy who was very very nice. We
were going to have our culture night and go to a jazz concert but they were all
booked and we weren't able to unfortunately. We went on a hike the previous
week. I just forgot to send pictures of it but I will send them this week for
sure. I don't really know what else. I'm kind of boring now, I'm getting to the
point where I don't care about going on a lot of adventures and I would rather
just sleep haha. They're fun but, I've seen enough and I think sleeping would
help me more so that I can be better and more awake for the investigators and
everyone.
Well this coming week is going to be a bit shorter because we have training
tomorrow in Bratislava. Then Elder Boam and I have to stay the night there
until the next day when we can go to the Foreign Police so that he can get his
Visa work done. It has to be on a Wednesday and it has to be soon so that's why we're doing it
now. So we probably won't get home to Zilina until Wednesday afternoon or night. We'll see how long everything
takes. This is the 4th time that I've had to do this so I know the ropes haha. A
funny story though, today
happened, where we were at Tesco which is a store like Wal-mart here. We use our
cards there usually and they have a special thing where they have to press these
buttons specifically or else it won't work and they will give us the money back.
So I tell them to do it this way after they didn't do it right the first few
times and she says, "no, she's doing it right." So she calls someone else over and
they try it and I tell them they need to do it this way but then she responds," we
know what we're doing what, "are you going to teach us how to do our jobs?" I told
them, "well, I've done this many times and they said you can't pay that way", so I
ask them to just try it my way and it works. Then the lady says, "aha well aren't
you a smart kid, we should give you a job" haha. Just a funny story from the
day.
Well that's everything, thanks for all of the help and support, I wish you
all a wonderful week and happy New Year, I love you all!
Elder Ferrell
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