Yup well as you all know, this week was a pretty great one just for the
fact that we had Easter Sunday and General Conference all mixed into
one! :) I really enjoyed it, anyone else? ... that's what I thought,
Everybody loved it! (at least I hope they did )
About the week
mission-wise.... a little disappointing on Sunday when a few of the investigators
we were really hoping would show up didn't... but C_ was there...
kind of a surprise... but it's fine by me, if he wants to show up
to church I am not going to complain... :) We were really hoping that
L_ and R_ would show up but.... they didn't... (maybe R_ went
to a different building with his friends but we can't be sure...)
So
here's a story, about a little guy who lives in a nice house. And all
day and all night everything he... (well you can keep making it up if
you want but I am just going to tell you about R_ for a little bit
because trying to get that all to fit with the tune of the song is just
taking too much time... :) ) But like I said he has a pretty nice house.
R_ actually went to church last week but went to a different ward
and we had never talked with him so I didn't have anything to say about
him last week but I have some really high hopes that he is going to get
baptized :) He has this friend that is a recent convert of a different
ward and she invited him to go to church and he went (we didn't know
about this until after we taught him the first time) we saw him at the
church and a youth who knows him comes up to us and starts to tell us
that he is an investigator and lives in our area. That's just perfect!
so we set up an appointment and and we are excited to teach him.... so on tuesday we go
to visit him like we had planned and we show up at the house and we are
thinking... "it would be really great to have a member present but there
isn't anyone who can help us out" (we had already checked...) whatever,
we will just have to do without... so we knock on the door and...
nobody's home! perfect... so we call him up. " Hey! where are you?" "
sorry I will get there in 5 minutes" ah bueno... está bien. He shows up
with a friend and so we are thinking great, two new investigators :)
NOPE! she's his recent convert friend! :) well that's ok too, so we
teach him the lesson and he is like way excited and wants to get
baptized and everything, it's great :) in the lesson we were going to
give him his own copy of the book of Mormon but when we mentioned a
scripture he whipped out the one he already had :) also at the end we
were just talking a bit and trying to figure out when we would visit him
next and well he couldn't do it one day because he was going to go to
institute that day.... What? he has already been going to institute for 2
weeks? Who knew?! So ya, that's just a little bit about R_...
About the conference, I was
listening to the talk from Holland and I thought about you Charley,
that's right, I totally did :) and I almost cried... I don't know
exactly why but I think I just felt really good and knew that the Savior
is there just waiting to grab us and pull us up over the ledge when we
can't make it :) There were so many talks that were so uplifting and inspiring. They really strengthened my faith and gave
me hope :) we just need to be patient and loving and things always work out:) Well... I would talk a lot more about the conference
but I left my notes in the house and I kinda don't have time but... ya, I
really loved it! It was such a great spiritual boost and I hope you
all have something special to share with me from what you heard and felt
:)
Also, this week we cut a tree down and I
got some sweet blisters and we got to paint a little bit (that's what
the blue jumpsuit is for in the picture, but I was sweatin' buckets in
that baby! ;) )
I love you all and hope you
could remember your Savior on such a special day and give him thanks by
the way you are living, I know He would really appreciate it :) You
are all great! :) BYE!
-Elder Sampson
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