Thank you for Googling that song. It's funny because I can read it a little and the translation is really cool too. So, wow, all my cousins are getting married! ha ha ha ha SO WHEN ARE THE TEMPLE DATES!!!!! Sorry, just gotta say it. I wouldn't be a missionary if I didn't. That is super cool. I was beginning to wonder what some of them were doing. So how's the pizza Reid? ha ha ha Sorry, that's just a trial that everybody goes through there at work and yes, it is a necessary evil but, hey, the better you get at all the stuff, the more they want to pay you, right? I know I don't need to tell you that. I don't know where you're at in your Book of Mormon reading and I would kinda like to know so I can follow along with you?
So this week has been crazy. Rather the end of the week, anyway. In the middle of the week we missed a meeting with the mission president about the 7 habits of successful people, which I really wanted to see because it's made by his company, Franklin Covey. We missed it because the zone leaders that were supposed to send an email, didn't send one to us, so frustration right there was pretty big. Then they tell us our house has to get fumigated that Friday and we have to sleep somewhere else, like in the mission office. So I am filled with love for our zone leaders and AP's right now. And the fun doesn't stop there... it continues. President Kretly was talking about the seven habits of successful people and one of them was to do all things in order, basically first things first and this is so things that weren't a problem at first don't turn into an emergency when everything blows up. We have this electricity problem and it has been a problem for a while. We have been trying to get it fixed but the people who are in charge of that (not going to name any names) are lacking in motivation to do it. So yesterday about 3pm the electricity shorted and it got hot in the house. Needless to say right now they are getting on it, but it's usually like this. We have a problem and it only get's a bandaid fix. President Kretly O.K.'s the work on the house, but somewhere in the translation of things the info falls through the cracks. It probably sounds like I am complaining a lot here, and I haven't really taken into account what the AP's and Zone Leaders do all day, so there's that. I just would like to sleep in my bed with out sweating myself to sleep. That's life and now that I think about it it's pretty funny. Just another text book Mozambique experience. The lesson learned here is that you need to do first things first. Procrastination is definitely the enemy.
This week with our investigators we had to drop a guy because he has a failure to launch. He just wouldn't pray with sincerity to know if these thing were true or not. (I mean, come on, what's a few minutes on your knees talking with an all-powerful being who, by the way, desires your happiness more than anything?) It's like having the ultimate cheat code in life and you don't want to use it because you think you're doing just fine on level "zero". Basically we told him that he could stay there as long as he wanted and since we are kinda low on Book of Mormon's we took it from him (hopefully incentives him to actually do what we ask). Usually when we give someone a Book of Mormon out here, we tell them we are going to let them borrow it and if they don't use it, we will take it back. It's a more effective way to understand their desire to actually do what they say they will do. So I don't know if I personally will see that guy till the spirit world, but when I do I am going to have another Book of Mormon, spiritually in hand, to give him. Hopefully, some willing soul will do his temple work for him. He still has at least one more chance. That's what I love about this Gospel, mercy is always a part of the plan, but at the same time it requires all that you have. Our next investigator, the one who is from another church, said he will be moving (so that's no good) but we have people out where he is moving so we will make sure they follow up. He is still reading the Book of Mormon, so that's good. This final investigator is what made this week worth it. He is something else and definitely prepared by the Lord for our message. We knocked on his door on Thursday and he strait way invited us in and listened to the first lesson. We felt impressed to leave the Book of Mormon with him and told him to read and pray (simple right). Guess what? He actually did it. We returned on Sunday to ask him how it was going and he told us that he had read all the way to 1 Nephi 19. I sat there for a few minutes trying to figure out if I had heard him wrong or my translator skipped because my heart definitely did. This amazing son of God not only read those chapters, but understood them with a clarity that most struggle to have. I quote him saying " I feel good when I read this book and sometime have a desire to share it with my wife." (she works quite a bit, so it's understandable) It was all I could do just to stay in my chair and not shout WHOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't think I have ever been so happy that someone has read a book. This guy just puts me on the floor! We asked him if he wanted to be baptised and he said not yet, that this would be something he would have to talk to his father in heaven about, to see if it was right. I mean wow, right? To close out our awesome lesson I told him that next lesson we would talk to him about the plan of salvation. He had a look on his face like, "Whats that?" and we told him to keep reading into second Nephi, which is like two chapters from where he is at. So, this will be interesting. To top it all off, we had some investigators at church this week, which was really good because we have been struggling to get people there. If I have to suffer physically each week to receive spiritual blessings like this, sign me up, put me in coach I wanna play! That's been my crazy awesome week and I hope I have more like that. Just gotta keep doing whatever I did this week to keep the blessings coming.
I need to get going so I can get some food at the store. I can't believe it's already February. Time is flying, it's almost a year to the date I opened my mission call!!!!
Lots of love and keep reading!
Love
Elder Proksch
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