WEEK OF ADVENTURES AT ITS BEST...... Here we go haha so first things first! The meeting with president last week was all about the book of mormon musical as you know! Well turns out president didn't give us too much heads up because the meeting with him was last monday and on tuesday night we were standing outside the theater passing out cards and stuff :) haha So that is basically how the meeting went. President told Us, the AP's, and 2 Sister Trainer Leader Companionships that one of our us needs to be there present at the theater for every show. Well how many shows are there?? There are 8 Shows a week. 2 being during the day saturday and sunday then the other 6 at nights. Well how long will the musical be here in ft. laud?? The Musical will be here for 4 weeks! WOW!!!!!!! hahaha So family week number 1 is in the books and boy do i have stories to tell!
So idk if you know much about the musical but anyways its been fun! We have been standing outside trying to jump start any little conversation with people about the church and what real mormons/mormon missionaries are like! Sometimes it's successful, other times its more depressing haha I only say that because you get people laughing at you, making fun of you, telling you how great of actors we were, yelling crazy things like mormons suck, etc.. you get the picture haha BUT I can be sure to say all of us missionaries that have gone thus far, we sure do love it! We love standing up for what we believe. It all actually brought me back to when i was 12 yrs old and choosing not to play ball on sunday! It brings back those feelings all over again and what amazing joy it is! So onto story time... First night we were walking around the theater looking for good places to be to catch people. Well as we were walking there was this family dressed up in really nice clothes sitting on the bench at the park across the street from the theater. We said hey yal going to the play? They said yes then we gave them a mormon.org card. They accepted and said well cool we are excited to watch your play tonight. Are you guys main actors? It is then we were confused... We said " NO we are the REAL Mormon Missionaries haha" (keep in mind this is the first contact we had at the show, we honestly didn't know what we were doing or really understand the purpose of us being there yet) Once they knew we were the real deal they began to ask all sorts of questions. Are you guys against the show? Do you have more than one wife? Why aren't you christians? Why is joseph smith like a god to yal? Why couldn't black people have the priesthood back in the day? etc...... Question after question. It was GREAT!!!!!! :) We testified and shared testimony with this family. Well in the 10 min we talked with them we cleared up a lot of their confusion, taught them the restoration and ALSO left them with a book of mormon as they were walking into the play! IT was great!! Another experience that wasn't as successful haha so One day we were there and it was packed. We found that in the parking garage we had a lot of people to work with. So there was this girl. She was prob 25 and had just left her boyfriend to go outside and smoke. So i said i'm giving this girl a card and telling her to look it up! So i did.... DENIED. I then began talking with other people then the girl was still out smoking, SO i went back to her. Are you sure we can't just give you a card. If you are interested in the play you will be really interested in the website. On and On I went insisting in giving this girl a card. WELL..... Turns out she looks at me and gives me a lil smirk, walks past me and as she's walking past me she gets up in my grill a little bit as if she's going to hug me or something. Then i began to worry a bit so i looked her straight in the eyes like WHAT YOU DOING GIRL? and thats when it hit...... SHE BLEW A BIG BIGGGGG PUFF OF SMOKE straight into my face, then walked into the musical :) BOY OH BOY I LOVE IT :)
Okay enough with the musical haha we were there 4 shows last week and now we are set up to do it about 2 times a week from now until christmas :)
Investigator time!!!!! So this past week. Elder Hall and I were GO GO GO! Straight up once again. I feel like i was just barely emailing yal! But anyways so we had little time in our area this past week but at the same time we were planning on 4 baptisms. Yakira and her family and also Coach Tony! Well about halfway through the week yakira told us she wasn't ready yet. She used doctrine and testified but she wasn't budging. She didn't want to be baptized this past week. So we then moved on to tony. (obviously still focusing on yakira and her fam too) Tony was solid. He was excited to be baptized and to show his kids a good example. He was 100% set on baptism and thats when well.... El diablo (satan) came in to play. Tony got called in to work sunday. It was an emergency. Tony needed the lil extra cash as well as he's preparing for christmas and so he said aight elders i'm getting baptized next week. :( DANG!!!! We tried helping him to not go into work and to stay and be baptized but nothing was working. So there we had it our 4 baptisms all fell through. We were so bummed out and sad. We worked so so hard and didn't it all but yet thats what we got in return. It was then we realized. GODS TIME NOT OURS!!! So we showed our faith. We made plans on how to get them baptized the following week. (this coming sunday) We were confident in these plans! Also right after we made the plans we began to see love come from our investigators. Yakira called us up and was like my boys guess what i made you some thanksgiving dinner can you stop by tonight and take it home? We said of course!!! :) She was thinking about us and that meant a lot to the both of us! Then On sunday we had planned to teach Yakira a little bit during gospel principles. (the teacher is bad haha real bad) So we took her in a room and taught her some of the commandments but not only that she had some time to vent to us. She is struggling and needs helping finding an apartment still. She was the one evicted from her house 2 weeks ago. She's living with her aunt but needs to leave. We told her that as she commits to god to be baptized then god will show her the way and show her what place she should look for an apartment. We used the tree of life picture to help her understand. We said that rod is the spirit. The spirit that will lead you to your new house. The spirit that you will receive after your baptism next sunday. So yakira will you and your boys prepare to be baptized next sunday? She paused, pause, paused..... Then looked us straight in the eyes as she was crying and said YES we will. I know it's right. I know I need to :)
Family that right there is why i am on a mission. God KNOWS. He does. He was teaching elder Hall and I something this past week and that was to trust in him and his timing!! We did that and most importantly we didn't give up. We acted even when times were hard. If we expected Yakira to act when her life is hard right now then we ourselves best be doing the same :)
I love you all and keep pressing forward. Endure to the end. The light is there and the end of the tunnel is near!! Love you and PEACE!!
Love, ELDER OVARD
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