Well this week has been great! more or less... alot of days
were just alright but we ended with a good weekend. It has just been nuts
trying to keep up the 2 areas. So now for the transfers...... drum
roll...... I'M STAYING! YAY that’s what I was expecting. They split the areas
and me and elder Mansell are training. Yeah yikes but it will be great times. There
will be 3 new trainers just in Huntington Park ward. So that will be fun. I'm
actually a little nervous to be training, sometimes I still feel like I don't
know what I'm doing, but it will be a good learning experience. Lots of fun
things will happen. So here's the not so secret part, earlier this transfer,
when I had an interview with President, he told me I would be training this
transfer, so it wasn't so unexpected. But anyways. That’s the news for today.
But the rest of the week just went alright. but there are a couple of miracles
that happened for sure.
So first off. We met with *** on Tuesday, and he told us he wills probably getting married in the next couple of weekends!!!! Yeah, that will be great. He says he wants to get married and have his wife and kids get baptized, and then a month or so, he will get baptized. He has a chewing tobacco problem, but he says that when he sees his family get baptized it will give him a little more strength to overcome his addiction. Anyways it was awesome to hear that. He really wants to change, this last year his relationship with his wife/girlfriend has been rough, he wants to change and become more of a family man. He’s awesome. Anyways. After that, nothing much exciting happened until Friday.
So we have an investigator named ***, he’s super cool. He owns a music store and is a professional singer. He loves music, so we get along. Last week, he told us that he had a friend that wanted to visit with us. So this Friday we showed up and there was this lady name ***. She is super Awesome! She is super prepared, and really wants to come closer to God. So about 9 years ago she used to go to the Mormon Church on Jefferson and Vermont. but she was a little confused about the book of Mormon, so she went to other churches. Now she still believes in god, but never really joined a church she felt was right. As of like a month ago, her x left her, she has 2 kids and she’s 3 months pregnant. She is super depressed and is really going through a hard time. Because Joshua is an awesome guy and loves helping people out, he gave her a job at his shop for the time being to help her out and get back on her feet. We started talking to her and she loved it, she loved the message of the restoration and she accepted a baptismal date for the 12th of October. The next day we stopped by to give her a book of Mormon and she almost started crying, she promised she would read it. She is so excited to learn and grow her strength again. Anyways that is a miracle, because most of our investigators right now are kind of so and are not really progressing. She is a new miracle that we will work with a lot!
So first off. We met with *** on Tuesday, and he told us he wills probably getting married in the next couple of weekends!!!! Yeah, that will be great. He says he wants to get married and have his wife and kids get baptized, and then a month or so, he will get baptized. He has a chewing tobacco problem, but he says that when he sees his family get baptized it will give him a little more strength to overcome his addiction. Anyways it was awesome to hear that. He really wants to change, this last year his relationship with his wife/girlfriend has been rough, he wants to change and become more of a family man. He’s awesome. Anyways. After that, nothing much exciting happened until Friday.
So we have an investigator named ***, he’s super cool. He owns a music store and is a professional singer. He loves music, so we get along. Last week, he told us that he had a friend that wanted to visit with us. So this Friday we showed up and there was this lady name ***. She is super Awesome! She is super prepared, and really wants to come closer to God. So about 9 years ago she used to go to the Mormon Church on Jefferson and Vermont. but she was a little confused about the book of Mormon, so she went to other churches. Now she still believes in god, but never really joined a church she felt was right. As of like a month ago, her x left her, she has 2 kids and she’s 3 months pregnant. She is super depressed and is really going through a hard time. Because Joshua is an awesome guy and loves helping people out, he gave her a job at his shop for the time being to help her out and get back on her feet. We started talking to her and she loved it, she loved the message of the restoration and she accepted a baptismal date for the 12th of October. The next day we stopped by to give her a book of Mormon and she almost started crying, she promised she would read it. She is so excited to learn and grow her strength again. Anyways that is a miracle, because most of our investigators right now are kind of so and are not really progressing. She is a new miracle that we will work with a lot!
Anyways it was good. I Love the gospel. Sunday I was asked
to give a talk, on missionary work. So my first talk in Spanish for 10min....
yikes I was pretty nervous, but it ended up great I think. After that, we did a
musical number, and Man do I miss singing. Since I’m the only one who plays the
piano I never get to sing. So it’s a bummer, but I get to play for the
ward and at all the baptisms. So yeah, learning all those hymns was good. But
oh I can’t wait until the cooler weather comes. I feel like I’m going to go
back to AZ and melt. It gets to like 90 here and it feels so hot, anyways from
what I’ve heard, it supposed to cool down after this week. and then stay cooler
until we hit fall. Anyways until that point it’s enough to say that we melt in
our apartment and that it’s just hot, and I go pee a lot, trying to stay
hydrated. But this is defiantly the lord work! I love it, I’ve felt more joy
and happiness here on the mission, because I get to see people make the change
and to have Christ change them. And I know he can. There are a lot of
weaknesses I have, and a lot of things that I need to work on, but I know that
if I try my best that we can receive strength! I love you all! Thanks for all
your prayers and support.
Love
Elder Hollingshead
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