Well this week has been quite an interesting week. To say
none of the least, to begin with the weather... We have seen sun, snow, rain,
fog, ice, and wind all in the matter of 5 days :)..... That is Idaho for you.
Well to start off the week I "ran" into a family while I was on
exchanges that is actually from home. Related to the Ebmeyer family from home I
ran into Brenda Anderson up in Elba this week and it was great to talk with
them and see how they love it up here. As the week went on, the weather got
crazier. On Monday we saw snow...in May....I'm sick and tired of snow.... We
tried to accomplish what we could in the snow, but it was so crazy to see people.
The weather was that bad, but we made due and tried all that we could. We ended
up just trying to see people and had little success. Thursday though, is the
day that I truly love. We had our mission tour!!! We got to meet Elder Bennett
of the 70 and he got to speak with us and we got to learn!!! It was spectacular
all that he had for us. No tablets, but just a wealth of knowledge just flowed
out from him directly from the Lord for what we needed to hear. He also
challenged us during our lunch break to go and street contact and apply some of
the things that we learned to the test. We got right to work and went to the
area that was assigned to us and we tried doing the contacting. We ended up
finding a trailer park and we went contacting there. The first person we ran
into, was an old man, with no shirt on, bald heavy set, and he called himself
the Anti-Christ. It was a very interesting experience. We started to walk by
and he started to approach us to only cuss us out, call us some choice names,
and then spit on us. Quite interesting guy. I held my tongue so much during
that cause I knew I was going to be witty with him and that it wasn't' going to
be of the Spirit. We laughed at it and just kept walking. We then made some
other contacts and met some really nice people. It was pretty cool. We returned
back to the building and just started to take in more knowledge as it came. We
then returned back to our area of Declo at about 6ish. When we had left it was
like 7:30 in the morning to be in Twin Falls. We got there right on time for
everything. And when we had left, visibility was only about 50 feet because we
had a nice fog that had settled over in Declo. I was hoping that by the time we
got back, it would be gone. We got back and luckily it was gone. The rest of
that day was trying to see some people. Then Friday came and we started kicking
it into gear. I don't remember much of Friday aside that it was a good day.
Saturday on the other hand I do remember. We got to work. We met with a lot of
people that we haven't seen or met with before/in awhile and it was just
amazing to see all the work that we did. We planned a whole bunch of names, and
we saw all those names. We don't know how we did it, but we did it. It's
probably cause we didn't take a dinner break. We just went to work and just
worked all day. Sunday came around and it was just full of meetings. We were at
church more hours than I can recount. It was a good Sunday though. We had one
of our investigators from one of the wards show up and we talked with him and
scheduled an appointment with him to come and share another message with him
and his family with a member. It was great to see that take place. And we also
got a little trunkie with what all the talks and lessons were about that day.
If anyone can take a guess as to what it was, it was all about marriage and
happiness within the marriage. Elder Posadas and I got trunked out and he just
remembers talking about missing his brothers wedding that is coming up soon.
But we eventually shook it off and got to work. After Church we took off and
just visited with people it was awesome. I got to meet a Less Active who knows
he should come to church, but is taking it slowly. He gave both Elder Posadas
and I some Cologne cause he has a whole bunch of it and doesn't use it. I
promise I won't be using it to pick up any girls here (Mom and Aunt Kathy) :)
After words we met with another family who is an active
member family and we did some correlating with them as to who we are teaching
and if they had any people for us to see and they did and we went and contacted
those names, but none of them were home. We ended up seeing a family that just
started a business in town and and we got to talking with them. It was pretty
sweet getting to know them. The husband is a member, but one that has fallen
away and seems to know some deep doctrinal things which was really interesting.
He still believes that the church is true, just loves a few things contrary to
the word of wisdom. Really sweet family though. We then ended the night and the
week meeting with another family in Springdale and they opened up to us. We
talked with them for a good amount of time and we just talked about how they
met, their interactions with the church (cause they are Less Active), and all
sorts of other things. It was really awesome to see as Elder Posadas and I just
got to asking inspired questions. It was sweet to say none of the least. Well
that is my week for you and I hope your week has been fantastic just like how
all of you are. I love you all and I hope you stay safe!!!! I also miss you all
too!!!!!
Love
Elder Ruesch Sosa
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