So this week was full of high's and low's. Monday night, we stopped by
a potential investigators house, that we tracted into a while ago, to
try to teach. She answered the door, but said it wasn't a good time.
We quickly set up an appointment for Tuesday night, and she accepted.
WE got there right at 5:00 pm (when the appointment was supposed to
start), but she wasn't there. Our ward mission leader was with us, and
he suggested we wait a bit, to see if she was running late. 20 min
later, she arrives, and looks a bit surprised that we were still
there. She let us in, and listened to our message. We taught her about
the restoration, and it went SOOOO well! When we asked her questions,
she answered really well! It was a great expirience. She is in her
early 20s, and is a single mother of a 6 months year old boy. She
wants to raise him in a good enviornment with good examples. We talked
about the For Strength of Youth, and she REALLY liked that! We
committed her to read the Book of Mormon, and pray about it. She said
she would, and is she got her answer, she would be baptized!!!!!! We
are seeing her again this week. Keep her in your prayers that she will
recognize the answer that she gets! That is such a huge part in the
process of prayer. People pray for help, and feel that they never got
an answer, when in fact they did! They just didn't recognize it.
On a less happy note, we found out that the kids that we have been
teaching and playing basketball with, have not been keeping any of
their comittments. That really made me sad. They didn't read at all,
they said they didn't really want to go to church, and I know they
didn't pray. That really got me down. So we are going to have to take
a different approach with them. Hopefully they will soften their
hearts.
Back to a high note! We got a referral from our Zone Leaders last
week. It was a man that had gone to a departing missionary fireside (a
fireside for anyone, where the missionaries that are going home will
speak for a bit on whatever they feel) with his friend. He gave his
information to our zone leaders, and asked for missionaries to come
teach him. Luckily, he was in our area! His name is Rahheev. Born in
Kashmir, India, but grew up in the United States. He grew up
Christian, but converted to catholocsim when he married his wife. He
has teenage kids, but has recently seperated from his wife. He also
recently retired from the Navy, and his father died last year. All
these things are piling up against him, and so he feels that he needs
to find something that can get him through it. We taught him the
restoration, mainly because those were the questions that he was
asking about. We gave him a Book of Mormon, and he said he was excited
to read it. He, too, said that if he got an answer, he would be
baptized. We set up an appointment with him for this Thursday. Right
before we left, he asked us if next Thursday we could teach him about
the purpose of life. We happily told him that we could, and that it
would help him in his life.
So a bit of a roller coaster week, but the success outweighs the
disappointment by far. I have learned that even the slightest bit of
imporvment in a person spiritually, can make your week so much better.
I have learned to be so grateful for ALL of the blessings that God has
given me throughout my mission, even the smallest ones. I love being
out here! It's such a crazy good expirience!!!!!

Elder Michael Litchfield