Well this week
is the last week before transfers, we have a pretty big week ahead of us and we
had a really big week this last week. It's really quite amazing at the progress
that we have made in building up this area here, we've been working hard and
things are just kind of going our way right now, we don't ever spend a day just
contacting and we just teach a ton of lessons and then we contact in the spaces
when we can. It's a very interesting phenomenon how; you can find as many people
in 25 minutes when you're teaching a bunch of lessons than you can in a whole
day of contacting. It's pretty awesome and we're hoping to reap those rewards as
much as possible and try to progress those investigators into the baptizing pool
of members. We're looking forward to transfers as well as this will begin my 2nd
to last transfer. It's exciting and nerve-wracking all at the same time. I'm
pretty sure I'm staying but you never know plus you just have to figure out who
is coming here or who I'm going to be with. All I can say is that whoever I'm
with next transfer better be ready to work because I don't have a ton of time
left so they better want to use all the time we have.
This week we
didn't do anything really crazy we just taught a bunch of people. We found 3 new
investigators last week and we continued to teach them this week. 2 have dropped
off this week however but 1 has stayed and seems really interested. The rest of
our investigators are doing well. The family is making more and more progress
and we're just trying to move them into coming to church every week. They have a
lot of potential and I really think they can be awesome branch builders in this
part of the country. We're also teaching one man who is probably the coolest and
most prepared man I've ever met ha-ha. I talked about him before but this week
it's a whole new level of preparedness ha-ha. He came up to us and said he's
been researching Mormons and watching films about us, some of them not being
very positive about us. He basically came in with a list of stuff that he heard
from the movie and it was the usual anti Mormon stuff. So I just began to go
through a few things with him and he just tells me, I know all of it is crap. You
guys are great and I'm so grateful I met you. He said in the video there was a
lot of bad stuff about Joseph Smith and he said these people should not be doing
that and it just made him angry that they would attack good man who writes a
good book. He's been reading lots and he's been looking up lots and he
finds out and tells us that he now knows we have 3 books in the standard works
and asked us when 2ill he get the second book. We told him after baptism . He's
just really cool. We also had a really cool experience, we were talking
about family history and this guy just comes up to me and asks who I am and what
I'm here for, he's probably 21. I tell him all about us and how we do free
service and stuff like that. He says, "well I'm actually more interested in your
church. Can we meet and discuss that?" He said that he met missionaries in England
a week ago when he was there and talked to them and they gave him a book of
Mormon in Slovenian and said he would like to read it and learn about us, so
we're meeting with him Tuesday
now. Miracles are happening and it's freaking awesome!
This next
week, we're just going to try our best. Yesterday we had our music activity where Elder Boam played
his violin and the other elders explained music and all that kind of stuff and
it was good, the members liked it and they were all able to stay so it was good. We also had some investigators there so we were very happy with how it turned
out. It's a lot better when all of our members can attend than only a few
because only a few live in Zilina.
This next week
we'll be continuing to teach all of our people. WE also have to go to Brno on
Saturday because we have a meeting
there for Branch Presidents and I have to attend that. So Elder Boam gets
dragged along with me in that circumstance. It will be good, I just hope I
remember everything and understand everything that is going on because it will
be in Czech. I'm sure it will be fine though.
Well, that's
pretty much everything that I have for this week but thanks everyone for all of
your help as my mission winds down. It has been invaluable.
Elder
Ferrell
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