Hello awesome family!
This week has been intense. It has been warm. I almost got
eaten by a dog. And we are teaching lot's of people.
The temperature got up to one hundred for a couple days. Our thermometer read ninety nine and we didn't think it would make it
that last degree, but it did. It was kinda humid too. I love the
warmer weather. While I am thriving most others are dieing. I have
in my district the missionary I trained, the one from
Alaska/Montana. He is one that is dieing in the heat. We did have
the car this last week so that made it nicer.
We taught Bro Jim this last week. He has been taught for about
two years. So for our investigators we make "teaching records"
that we keep in the "area book" and on the back of these we
describe each visit we have with that person. If we meet with
people a lot there is not enough room on the teaching record, so
we cut out a new one and tape it to the back of the old one and
continue writing on the new one. When I got here I saw the longest
teaching record I have ever seen. He had seven pages. Although,
the good thing about that is now we know exactly what his concerns
are and instead of guessing and beating around the bush we know
what his concerns are and can help him overcome them. He is very
open with us. In our visit we taught him about the atonement,
justice and mercy, and faith. After which we invited him to be
baptized. He said "Well, I've already been baptized. but are you
going to ask me something else?" "will you be baptized?" came the
reply. He said "I've been thinking about it a lot. I can give you a
definite maybe. I agree with the doctrine, I just have a lot of
challenges." I was amazed by his answer because I expected a no.
His answer was in the direction of baptism. He eventually will be
baptized.
We taught Julianne this week as well. She is getting baptized
in July. She is a single mom and is working three jobs. It is hard
to meet with her, but she wants to be baptized. If she has to work
on Sunday she will go to another ward that starts at nine, ours is
at one, then go straight to work. She is a great lady.
Saturday we had a priest go on exchanges with us all day. It
was a "day with the missionaries." We had a great time. We tracted
and talked with a guy who told us boats weren't invented until the
eighteen hundreds and the Jews hid the Book of Mormon during world
war two. We had a fun day. We taught a few people. I cooked him
lunch. For some reason most people won't eat my cooking. It's
weird. But Kenny, the priest, loved what I made him. I cooked up
mac and cheese, stirred in tuna and green beans. It was really
good.
So, the dog that almost ate me. Sunday morning, before going to
church, we went by this less-actives house. They had a chain link
fence around their big yard. We whistled and heard nothing so we
started walking to the door. We got half way when two barking dogs
ran around the corner. I thought, oh, here come the dogs. They
were chihuahuas, yapping at us. One came up and tried to bite my
shoe. I shewed it away with my foot. As we were about to walk onto
the porch I hear this deep bark. I thought "oh crumb!" Around the
corner comes this big Rottweiler with the kind of speed and bark
that you know they are not coming to say hi. We jump onto the
porch, Elder Judkins is behind me, I turn to face the dog with my
scriptures in my hand ready for it. (one reason I carry my
scriptures instead of using a back back:self defense.) It came up
and was about to bite me, I swing my scriptures and missed it's
head by an inch. The dog retreated because the owner ran out and
yelled at it to go in the back. As you can imagine I am shaken.
It's a good thing God watches over His missionaries.
That was my week. Pretty exciting. I love it here and I love
serving the Lord!
May the Spirit be with you!
Elder Durrant
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