571 days!
Sorry, I’ve been writing in my journal and for every day I put what number it is… I’m up to 571! (As for my journal… I’m writing for Day 305! There’s never any time to do stuff here! Between training, working, and being district leader, all of my free time at night and on P-Day gets sucked away and I end up having to put side projects like my journal off to the side. But I’m going to finish all of it, even if it kills me, because I don’t want to forget stuff! At least I wrote everything down in my Agendas so I don’t forget!)
Anyway… Not much to report and I’m kind of tired. We have to do our reports through email and it’s a pain in the neck because the format doesn’t like the things I want to do to it, so I’ve been fighting it for about an hour now… Ready to be done so I can go eat. Anyway, I’ll mention the cool miracle that happened, just so you don’t feel ripped-off, and next week I’ll have some more interesting stuff to tell, I promise!
So this week it’s been a little tough to find new investigators for some reason, but on Saturday we found several. One of them is called Yriss, and she was a reference from someone else that we’ve tried to find before but that we couldn’t find. But Saturday morning we planned to pass by her house again — just to see if we could find her to set another appointment — before passing for a few other homes to set more appointments.
Well, we knocked on the door and she came out (but we didn’t know it was her because we hadn’t seen her before — someone just gave us her name and address) and we asked if Yriss was home. When she told us that she was Yriss, we told her that we were missionaries and that we were passing by just to see if we could help. I didn’t really expect it, but she said that yes, she’d like us to share a message, and invited us in. We talked to her for a little bit before starting to teach, and when we finished the lesson she said that she felt amazing, like a great peace in her heart, and said that we must’ve been sent from God. Well, obvously! She eagerly agreed to meet with us again this week, and she’s very excited to learn and prepare herself to be baptized!
— Elder Schroeder