12/6/2010

Me and my companion (Elder Galvão) at Outback Steakhouse

Hey!

This week was really really hard work wise. So here in this area we teach on average 30 lessons per week. This week we taught 8. I think it was the worst week of my mission work wise. But it can only get better from here! :)

Tonight we have a family home evening planned with a super rich family in the ward and they are going to bring a bunch of friends. So hopefully we will get some new investigators!

Yesterday we got a referral from a member in the ward. It was his dad, who is 78 years old and has been to church a ton of times but doesn't believe in God. So he will be kinda hard to work with, but he is way cool! He puts together huge puzzles for a hobby and frames them and hangs them up in his house. He has somewhere around 35 puzzles hung up. And he has a huge library in his house (he is super wealthy) He has every single National Geographic Magazine printed since 1919! Its quite impressive.

So a couple weeks ago something really really cool happened. Me and my companion were walking in the street and a man shouted to us, "Hey Elders, come here!" So we went and talked to him and he said that he went to the church a couple times like 2 years ago, but wasn't baptized. We asked him if he knew the Elders there in the neighborhood where he lived (which happens to be one of the areas in our zone) and he was like "Ya, ya I know them, they come over all the time" So we didn't even think to get his address because the Elders already knew him. So we called the Elders and they said they have no idea who he was. So we hung up the phone and we was already out of sight. Then me and my companion had the impression to start running to find him. So we just started running, we ran for a good 3 minutes and then we saw him turning a corner in front of us, so we chased him down and talked to him again. We asked for his address and phone number, and then we passed to information to the Elders in that area. Well we didn't think anything of it at the time. But know I can see how that little prompting of the spirit changed his life. He and his wife and 2 kids have now been to church 3 times, have made a ton of friendships with the members in that ward, and are super super excited for their baptism on Dec. 18th! The Elders there said that it is the most Elect family they have ever seen on their mission. Man am I happy that we listened to the spirit!

Today for P-Day we went to Outback Steakhouse! Which is exactly the same here as in the states! It was soooo Good!

So today we will get the phone call about transfers. I hope me and my companion will stay together again!

Thanks for all the love and support!
Elder Schoen