Season 10 Episode 5

I have had a good week. It was a very busy week. Started off with a really fun P-Day last week. I haven't done anything crazy fun this transfer. Last week we played some volleyball. Then later that night we were able to stop by a less active member. It was a quick visit, but it was a good visit.  We are. going to be going back. It's been hard to find less active members that are actually  willing to be taught. They are more stuck in their ways than the people that we meet.
Tuesday we had a district meeting. It went really well. I trained on promising blessings. That was an interesting thing to study. What I found out was that when we have the faith to promise people blessings, if we promised them with the spirit, those blessings will come true. And we practiced doing that in district meeting and it went really well.  We were able to talk about who we can have faith for and promise them blessings. Then later that day I got to give my first baptismal interview. That was a great experience, the girl that was getting baptized had a lot of faith. She was a 13-year-old girl. She didn't have much family support so it showed that she was really willing to be baptized. I forgot some of the questions so I actually had to read them but I think the interview went really well. It was really short but it was really easy too.  She just had no problems with any of the questions.
Wednesday we had a great day. We were out with a guy who was about to leave on his mission. We took him out for a couple of hours in the afternoon. As we were driving by we found our investigator walking down the street. She's the investigator that we put on date two weeks ago and she has been really hard to make contact with ever since. She also does have some really tough concerns. So we saw her waiting there and we pulled over and went to go talk to her. She had a lot of questions about Joseph Smith. We were able to answer those questions and set up a time to go back and answer more questions.
Thursday we were on exchanges. So it was a good day, not too much happened. Then we set up a few appointments for the next day.
Friday we would've had our lesson with Susanna. But she sent us a text and canceled and the way her text sounded like she was going to drop us. So it is always an up and down game with her. But we were able to have another lesson that we had set up the night before with another lady. It was a quick restoration lesson and we were able to invite her to be baptized on the first lesson. It went well.  There were no real problems or questions that she had. So that was a huge positive.
Saturday we attended a child of record baptism. That was awesome. We were invited by the members because they had non member and less active family attending the baptism.
Sunday that day was crazy. Church then more church. The last Sacrament meeting was the primary program. I still don't get the primary program, it is about the only Sunday were people actually invite people to church. We had 10 or 11 nonmembers at church that we didn't even invite or even know for that matter. If only every Sunday could be like this!

Elder Astle