FROZEN written February 10, 2014
This was a pretty slow week. Not too much going on, cold weather, lots of snow; people were just not having it this week. But that's okay. Surprisingly, we still had a decent turn out to English classes this week. Usually when it snows and is super cold, people don't come to the classes. Yet for some reason, everybody still came this week. So that was a nice surprise. People seem to be enjoying them and learning things. The phrase of the week was "English is weird" and we all say it every time we have to learn a tricky concept. The people we've been teaching didn't come this week, so hopefully they come next week.
We did some classic door knocking this week. Not too much success, but we met some kind people. I find that the colder it is, the less likely people are to let us in. We can't really do much about it but keep trying. We met with a less active named Danny and his wife and kids. The two kids are ages 7 and 5, they are the sweetest kids. Their grandma brings them to church every week because their parents don't go. I know them from primary, so we chatted with them for a bit. This was the first time we had met Danny's wife before. We sat down to teach them about how obedience brings blessings. Elder Mason taught the lesson and he did a good job, but she just wanted to argue with us about hypocrisy and how she doesn't think certain things should be. We tried to explain that everyone has their own agency, but if we just follow the teachings of the Gospel, it will all turn out well. She wasn't really having it, so we eventually just wrapped up the lesson. If you want to argue and find problems, you'll find them. But they don't really get you anywhere.
Friday we had a number of things set up with various people to come by and teach them. And yet somehow they all managed to fall through. We had a nice surprise though. We went to look up someone we had talked to before. Some guy answered the door and told us he had no idea who that person was. We told him we were missionaries and asked to share a message about Jesus Christ with him. He told us to come on in. We chatted for about forty five minutes and taught him about the Restoration and the Book of Mormon. He seemed a little skeptical, but told us he was willing to read and pray. He asked some really good questions too, it was a good lesson. We're going to meet with him again this Thursday and try to get him to church.
We also met with the Ventura family again. We were hoping to teach his wife again, but things were distracting with their two year old son and she wasn't really paying attention. We talked about the importance of the scriptures and encouraged them to come to church. They said they would, but didn't end up coming. It happens. Life throws all sorts of distractions at us.
Sunday was our branch conference, so we had all sorts of stake people there. It was odd to see so many white people in sacrament meeting. It was a good meeting though. We even had food afterward. Apparently the dinner after branch conference is a tradition out here. I think it should be a tradition everywhere. We looked up a bunch of less actives during the evening, but nobody was home. Nothing new there. Just another week in New York. Life is great, as always. We just need to reconnect with some people this week and we'll be back in business.
Love,
Elder Erickson
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