So this week was good, not as full of work as last week but we had
some good stuff happen.
We were able to talk to a lot of people but most of them were not
interested and I haven't wrote anything about Samuel for a while and
that because we haven't been able to meet with him for the past week
or so but a couple of days ago we decided to call him to see if his
phone was fixed and he answered and told us to come back the next day
so we decide to bring Brother Santos with us who is really awesome, he
actually worked for the NYPD for like 30 and was a detective and he
has some CRAZY stories to tell but anyways we go over there with him
and Samuel doesn't answer so we were like crap because Brother Santos
drove like 30 minutes out here for nothing, so that kinda sucked but
the next day we went again to see Samuel and this time he was home, he
expressed to us that he has been feeling super sad and lonely because
his Ex- wife doesn't let him see his kids and so his Father's Day was
really depressing but we were able to be there for him and I really
love talking to him, he has a lot of desire to be better but his past
life is is what stops him and because of it he is super depressed,
but after we talked and shared a message with him, we decide that we
had nothing set later that the day so we were gonna come back with
another member to play some board games to get his mind of off all the
bad stuff that has been happening, he got really excited that we were
gonna do that with him and and that went well, he had a lot of fun
with us and laughed a lot and had a good time, he also has some other
problems with the word of wisdom so we decide that we are gonna keep
in contact with him more and try to visit him more frequently so he
doesn't get lonely and depressed and we are actually ending pday a
little bit early today so we could go over there, I'm really excited
to meet with him!
Another cool thing that happened this week was we were just tracting
knocking on doors and we weren't having too much success but we saw
this guy just standing on the sidewalk just looking at us and then he
decide to walk towards us and he asked if we were the Mormons and we
said yes and then we told us that we was meeting with the missionaries
along time ago but he moved to Connecticut, but now he's back and he
want to meet again, he expressed to us that he wanted a blessing and
that recently his life had been really hard, and that he want to be
closer to God and go to church, so we went to his back yard and we sat
down and talked to him for a little bit, he also seemed pretty down,
pretty depressed and so we talked to him about the atonement and he
really liked that, then he told us that he wants to be baptized
because he never has been baptized before and that he really want us
to come over again so that he can learn more and so we have a
appointment scheduled with him for tomorrow so we'll see how that
goes.
That's just some cool stuff that happened this week, also we have been
trying hard to work with the members a lot more so we can get member
presents with us so that the investigators feel more comfortable at
church and don't feel left out and will want to come to church because
the hardest thing to do is to get them to come and if they have a
friend it's a lot easier for them, so that's what we have been doing,
other then that everything is good.
Love,
Elder Pugmire
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