So this week was great. We had a lot of new families to get and generally a lot of craziness as far as training goes. We hit most of our goals this week, which was cool and being district leader is good but it's not. It's good because you have the opportunity to help a lot of people and hopefully make a difference in someone else's mission, but on the other hand it's a little crazy to try and get regular stuff done. It's no big deal. That's just life as usual. ha ha!
For starters this week, my comp. is amazing. He has a good willingness to work and that is really great. He learns pretty quick, so I am going to let him do a couple contacts by himself this week (we will see how that goes). He's doing great and he's learning quite a bit and starting to take the lead in some of the lessons. Nothing really all that interesting on that side of the line. District leading just puts you in better contact with your zone leaders and they are very interested in the work that your district preforms, so we try to make new goals and do better every week to better our area. We are taking action in the fact that we are trying to get the less active members here in T3 back to church and my comp had an idea where we get a list of all the members in the ward (like a ward directory) and then we call them and visit them and ask them to come to church. Also, we ask them for references afterwards so we can teach new people and get them integrated into the branch because they already know a family. This will help us get more people back to church and at the same time find new people. It's kinda tricky, but it has great value in this work. As a whole, we are trying to be successful and leaning heavily on the Lord for help to get this area into working order.
I am a little jealous about the trip to San Diego. I really want to go, so yeah. This week I ran into this guy from another religion and he seemed nice at first when we contacted him. I asked him if he was from another church and he said he was. He started talking about some things and I showed him the Book of Mormon. After a few minutes of trying to explain to him that God is our LOVING HEAVENLY FATHER and the fact that we are his children, he decided to tell me that the book that I had showed him was not true and I would get no where in this life and in the one to come if I continued to read it. In the most polite way, I tried to tell this man that he needed to "check himself before he wrecked himself" and that God is not dead. Therefore, God continues to speak as a living being and that if God so loved the world that He sent his only begotten son, then I think that He might have a few more words for us, in our day, when people deny the existence of a creator and all that he does for us. I also told him that he could pray to know the truth of it, from God, of this. He had no response and just shook his head. After which I told him that maybe some other day when he ran into us, I could give him a Book of Mormon, like maybe when I wasn't so tempted to deck him with it. Seriously! After that conversation, I just felt gross. Like I just stepped neck deep into a puddle of mud. It was the weirdest feeling I've ever had. Then my companion said something about what we do here as missionaries. The way in which we present our message. How we tell people up front about what we do and our message. We literally don't hide anything, but other churches around here use strategies and tricks to get people in their doors which makes it harder for us because the people that would join our church are constantly deceived by the other ones. So, the one place that shouldn't lie or do false advertising is the one that does it the most. It's really kinda sad that way, but that's where we live (no wonder people are atheists). That was my experience this week. Oddly enough, it was a great testimony builder, just because I had the opportunity to bear it to him (I hope he felt something).
I love you guys and hope you all have a great week,
Elder Proksch
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