Hey Everyone!
Everything is going great in Kazakhstan! Today is Elder Malanin's birthday and we are going to just go relax and play games at the park with our district. It should be a nice relaxing day. Sounds like something you guys could definitely use right now with all of the moving and craziness going on! Busy Busy Busy! I guess the process never ends.
Our investigators are doing great. Sadly, Nona did not come to church last week. But, during our lesson with her this week she recommitted to come and even found her a ride from the Moore's so now she can't have any excuses! Ulan is doing good. We committed him to baptism this week but he said that he still just isn't ready. He wants to find truth but needs more time to study it. It sucks because I had this strong feeling that we shouldn't commit him to baptism during the lesson because the feeling just wasn't right and I could tell something just wasn't ready with him, lol but we still continued and committed haha I should have just listened to my prompting because I already knew what the answer was before he said it! We also had a lot of really strange lessons this week... not strange in the sense of bad, just... strange. We met this guy on the street from the Philippines last week who speaks really good english and he wanted to meet with us. Well, when we called him to meet with us this week he asked if he could bring a friend... well of course we said he could, but then he said can I bring my boyfriend? lol a little bit of an awkward situation, but hey you need to give everyone the opportunity to hear the gospel! So, he came, but didn't bring his boyfriend, and the strangest part about it was that it was a really good lesson with him lol. He has study religion a lot of his life searching for truth and he just doesn't understand how there can be so many churches. He thinks that there should be one true church but he doesn't know how he can find out. So. basically we ended up having a really interesting and spiritual discussion, gave him a Book of Mormon, and now we will just see where things go. His name is Noel. We were also able to teach another man only in english because he is studying in college in Canada, as you can tell we meet a lot of people and teach a lot of people who speak english, and we had a very strong and powerful lesson about trials and about finding truth. It was a very deep and sincere discussion and he had really good questions from the soul. His name is Rustem.
This morning we had breakfast at the Moore's, first time that I have had bacon since I was in America, and we had a really good discussion about finding people. They really, along with all of the Elders here have a strong feeling that the work here is just about to take off! As a missionary it can be hard because you have so many things along with lessons and contacting and tracting and study and stuff like that that it is easy to just get into a routine and just keep going everyday doing the same thing. It makes you forget about other things that you should be trying and testing, it is easy to forget about the simplest way to find people, through the members. So, with that we are going to be working hard on focusing on strengthening the members, getting them more involved, and getting referrals from them. I really think that this will bring a lot of success to our work as we begin to search where missionaries have never looked before in this area, we now have access to a car which the Missionary Couple here can drive so we can start searching in parts of the city where we have never been. The work is going along!
Well thank you for the love and the support and the prayers! Keep it up and remember who you are!
Elder Weihing :)
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