October 22, 2018

This week we got wrecked, near absolute rejection. We had two trade-offs planned which went well but the result was Elder Wiseman's week was a lot better than mine. Elder Wiseman picked up 4 new people to teach (which is really good) and had a few teaching opportunities but I only taught one lesson this entire week. It also didn't help that zone conference was this week but still. So many lessons fell through, a few people dropped us, and nearly everyone we spoke with was super not interested. 

The week wasn't all that bad though. Some really important things happened. Bertha, the old lady who was baptized my first few weeks (March 2017) was endowed on Friday in the temple. This is huge for more than just one reason. The first reason is that the temple endowment is a saving ordinance. Second, it represents the progress that has been made in the branch the last two or three years. There has been substantially progress in the few months I've spent here. I'm not even sure who the last convert to be endowed was. The Olguin family may have been the most recent, having taken place around 9 years ago. A lot of work has gone into this progress, thankfully we've had nothing but great missionaries the last three years. 

Darylle our friend we taught last week had a very successful pass off to the English Sisters in Grand Rapids. It's a little painful passing off someone as funny and prepared as Darylle seems. Hopefully December 15 will be his baptism! I'll definitely be attending if it happens.