"Everything is going so great! We had a very balanced week: new investigators, street contacting, a baptism, member lessons, less-actives. It was just a great all around week. This week my motto of "you get to choose to be happy." was really tested. We got a perfect new investigator.My investigator got baptized- side note funny story right there. Our investigator has a hard time bending so bending backward to get baptized was a struggle. He had to get dunked three times, and when he was finally submerged people started to clap. In the end he was baptized by immersion by the priesthood authority and received the gift of the Holy Ghost. So it's all good in the hood. Then my investigator called us and dropped us hard. Beyond hard! He told us that he chooses Satan over Christ and that he was choosing hell. It was super dramatic! It was actually insane! I felt like I was in a dramatized mission movie. So this brings me around to my point. I could just cry about he's eternal damnation or I could be overjoyed at my other investigators eternal salvation. I'll chose eternal salvation everyday; thank you very much.
The mission is so funny because although I work so so so hard for these people, that they might gain faith in Christ. In the end it really only matters if my faith is solid because that is all I can control. I have to work to help others, but it all comes back to how your testimony is doing.
So I am loving life. I went back to the basics, and am focusing on the simple gospel, and that is making everything better. I've been out 7 months. So nuts!
P.S. So that investigator called us the next day, and told us that he wants to try again. We laid down the law and told him this is it he has to come to church, pray, and read the scriptures or we cannot help him. He is doing worlds better.
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