Hello hello!
This week was just wonderful.
We found an apartment in Gloucester and we should be
moving in shortly here. The Land lord was super nice to us. And she has so many
places where we could serve in her little network. We might have to become
elves for Christmas. . .
One evening earlier this week, the Bishop's wife took us
our for dinner and had a little "coordination" meeting with her. We
had some tasty sea food. And we even had Octopus! I personally thought it could
have used some pepper. But if you know me, you wouldn't be surprised with that.
One thing that she told us was that missionaries in our area have seemed to
neglect going to Rowley and working there as well.
It seem stop be a trend here that when missionaries have
miles on their cars, they go way out and try to work in the furthest areas. And
when they don't have miles and have to walk, they stay within the town where
they live. So there ends up being this I between area that gets missed. So we
resolved and planned to go to Rowley the next day which could be considered as
one of those "in-between-areas". The next day after finishing our
ditsy street we planned to tract on, we felt impressed to go a little further.
The first house we knocked on ended up being two now investigators for us. They
let us in and gave us some cookies. Their names are Nick and Laura. He is Greek
and she is as American as they come. They are both elderly and are busy. But
they made time for us to talk and share a lesson.
A similar thing happened the next day when we were
tracting in Ipswich. We finished a street and was leaving a grumpy ladies house
when we saw a tattooed, bearded, smoking man go into his house. We felt both
that we just wanted to find someone to talk to and that he should go to his
house. His name is Jason and has a family. We talked with him for a while and
gave a lesson. He is a Mason and is committed to his beliefs. We believe a lot
of the same things, and I feel that we will have a great impact on him. More
than we both realize.
Allan our other investigator accepted the invitation to
be baptized and is now going above and beyond. He called us up one evening
saying that he has found coats for us. And the family across the street from
him whom we contacted and said that they weren't interested, Allan said that
they want to have dinner with us. We were blown away and are super excited.
I'm surprised that I'm not dead yet. Every single home we
go into they have either a dog or a cat. And Allan's dog, Gidget, is shedding
so much that when she rubs up against my leg, she leaves my pant leg covered
with hair. Surprisingly, I have only had minimal allergies to this. And even
more. My companion is basically a science experiment.
He gets these massive migraines to the point were he
looks like he is having a stroke. He has to carry around one his belt this
humongous shots that he has to give himself if he gets an attack. He said that
the doctor that gave the, to him said that "Now. These aren't your average
shots. When these go in, they freaking hurt!" If you know my history with
these types of things, you will know that this isn't the ideal situation for
me. To have a companion with these types of things. Luckily, he hasn't had to
use them yet. And let's that he doesn't have to use them. . . For my sake. . .
Is week, we get to
go to "New Missionary Training". And it will be held this time at the
Joseph Smith Memorial in Vermont. I am super excited for this. And we will be
staying over night there. The only down side is that we will be staying on
unheated cabins. I guess we're camping! Thankfully my companion is very
prepared and has enough to help me through this as well as himself.
One thing that I found out is that there are yarn shops
here! We are going to go to one today and check it out! I am more than excited.
And don't worry, it's all for missionary work. Don't think that I'm siting here
messing around with fibers all day.
General Conference was the best! I don't think that I
have ever taken so many notes in that space of time ever. My faith that our
Bishop and Ward Leader are inspired by the fact that what they have been
teaching and say thing that we need to do, directly correlates to what we heard
the prophets say in Conference.
I am so excited for what this next week will hold. And
hopefully we will have a baptismal date co ding up here!
I love you all!
Elder Clawson / Старейшина Класон.
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