"Hello, hello, hello. It was another great week in North Town. I am really loving my area. It's a dream come true. We are teaching so many youth. We had a little 9 year old just get baptized on the weekend. We are teaching a funny 11 year old girl who told us "I am looking for a religion that makes me happy and I think Mormons are great." We are teaching another 9 year old boy who carries around a little pocket size Book of Mormon. Then we are teaching a 17 year old girl who has been meeting with missionaries on and off for about a year. I never thought I was a person who was into the rising generation but apparently that's what I am all about. We also ran into a priest(Young Man) in our ward on the streets and had quite the conversation. He told us that he doesn't want to go on a mission and that his life will be just fine without it. Well I just wasn't happy with that answer so I busted out everything I could possible think of to get him to at least think about going on a mission but he straight up refused. I was dying. I think my heart broke a little bit; that someone would just refuse to even think about going on a mission when it's the greatest thing that's ever happened to my life.
The members in my wards are great! They are always so willing to come out with us and even if it's just to talk to people in the street. We were suppose to have a lesson with a lady in an apartment complex and a member said she'd come well the lesson fell through so the member was like "Well let me introduce you to my neighbors!" She walked with us all through her complex,and we talked to everyone. It helped that she had a solid testimony and would tell everyone that you have to look the doctrine. She said we all get distracted by music and the leaders of churches but what we have to look at is the doctrine.
We had blessed Zone Conference. It was my very last one so that was weird but it was great. Our Mission President talked about spiritual power and all the different aspects of that. One of the biggest things I took away from Zone Conference is that we are in our own hands. It's up to us to read the scriptures and to pray. People will notice if we don't go to church but what we do everyday is really up to us. It's kind of amazing how much trust Heavenly Father has put in us. As the Bible says "We work out our own salvation." Heavenly Father trusts us to do that. He also gives us lots of people to be support but it's on us.
So back to the story of our little 9 year old who got baptized this weekend. It was the craziest thing. So when we got to the area we saw him in our area book so we just stopped by casually They told us that he has been taught all the lessons 4 times and just needs to get baptized. We asked him all the baptismal questions and he knew the answers to them all. We set him to get baptized in three weeks and that's what happened. We have no idea why the Elders didn't get him baptized and no one in the ward seems to know either so there you have it. We just had a baptism put into our hands by Heavenly Father.
The funniest/weirdest thing that happened this week is the story that follows. We have a man who lives in our complex who is OCD. I see him all the time out the window and never have a chance to talk to him because we are always studying when I see him. Well the other day we are studying and I see him out there trying to move a massive couch by himself. So I throw on my shoes and fly out there to help the poor chap. We run up to him, and say "Are you trying to move your couch? Can we help you out?" He says " I'm not trying to move my couch, I am moving my couch. You don't have any men in there? I don't work with women." We are standing there just stunned. He then says "I mean there is no point in working with women it's just kind of a waste of time." He tells us he'll either move it himself or we can do it but we aren't working together. We were so shocked that we just turned around and walked back to our apartment.
As you can see there is always something going on in North Las Vegas. It's a delight and a pleasure."
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