I am training an Elder from Brazil! He is seriously one of the greatest new missionaries I have ever met. If he needed to I think he could definitely train a new missionary after his first twelve weeks! There are a lot of things I need to teach him still, but I already look up to him so much! 

 

So just to get it all out there in the open, I was dumb and got my bike stolen this week. Didn't lock it up. Wow. We were in a kind of open area with a lot of foot traffic, one of our favorite places to talk to people. We were sitting on a bench with our bikes leaned up beside it making a few phone calls. We saw a guy sitting on a bench 30 feet away so we decided to go and talk to him really quickly, and when we came back my bike was gone. There was a lady standing right there who said she just saw a guy come up, get on the bike, and ride off. She assumed it was his. Man!

 

Other than that, things have been going okay. We have had a few random things we have had to take care of which have made it so that we haven't had as much time as we would have liked to, to do the work, but this next week is going to be sweet! 

 

Love you!

-Kyle

March 3rd 2014

Hello everybody! 

So this week we had HEAPS of appointments fall through, but we had some awesome miracles as well. First off, we had an INTENSE lesson with one of our investigators last week teaching her about the Word of Wisdom. She has a testimony of the restored gospel, but she has a few bumps she needs to get over before she can be baptized, one of them being a problem with smoking. In the lesson she told us that she really wanted to stop smoking, but she wanted to just finish her pack of tobacco in the next couple of days and quit then, but after about 15 minutes of trying different things and encouraging her, she allowed us to confiscate her pouch of tobacco! 

 

After that, the biggest thing keeping her back from getting baptized is that her parents don't like the idea. Even though she is in her 30s she is pretty decided that she doesn't want to get baptized without her parents permission, and she doesn't even want to come to church without their approval. After a lot of praying and a few lessons with her though, we got a phone call on Friday from her saying that she had talked to her parents and they had said they were ok with her coming to church on Sunday! She did, and she loved it! Things are going slowly with her, but I have hope! 

We had another miracle right at the end of the week on Sunday. Like I said we have been having loads of appointments falling through (most of them first appointments) but on Sunday we decided to try just dropping by one of our potential investigators. When we got to the address he had given us we realized that it was a building with several different flats so we just started hitting doorbells for all the flats. The gentleman was in, and he invited us right in to talk to him! We have another appointment to teach him next week, and I think he could go somewhere! 

 

Our flat has been used by missionaries for years, and there are four or five retired bike frames from bygone missionaries. For our P-day activity today we took parts from all the bikes and tried to make a working one :) I think what we came up with is rideable, but the brake pads we found to put on it are pretty much useless! It was the sort of tinkering I enjoy anyway, so it was good. 

I love you all! Talk to you later!

-Kyle