Elder Nimmer, Elder Owens, and Elder Moeller emailing/Facebook
Hello
everyone!
This week
has been kind of rough.
On Monday
we had FHE with the primary president and her family of seven kids with the
oldest being 14-16 and the youngest being just 2. They have been working on
memorizing The Living Christ (which
is a testimony given by modern day prophets and apostles on Jesus Christ) due
to one of the sisters who spoke at the General Women's Meeting (I think it was Sister Neill
Marriott?). Anyway, they are a really sweet family.
On
Tuesday, which was transfers for those who were getting transferred, Elder
Moeller and I had to do double the work at the Bishop's Storehouse (which is
basically where those who need food and supplies can receive some) due to so
many missionaries going to transfers. We were physically drained. Later that
night we had dinner with the Horlacher's who are a really nice family -- with
one daughter married and two sons on missions. They met in the field when they both
served in the Tampa Bay Mission, which then covered most of Florida. They had
been fellowshipping one of our investigators named Dan for a while and warned
us about him. We thanked them and told them that we were being cautious and not
to worry.
On
Wednesday we biked down to see Dan but he wasn't there. So we went tracting. We
found the cutest elderly people of all time. Alice and Huey Barnes are over 80
years old and are Methodists. But they let us sit down on their back porch and
we taught them about the restoration. When she spoke to us she would frequently
use "Darlin'" and "Love" as well as "Sugar". They
were so happy to see us and were happy to accept a Book of Mormon.
When we
finally tracked Dan down later that day he threw a ton of anti-Mormon material
at us, which wasn't too fun. He basically tried to disprove everything about
the gospel, but he could not disprove the Book of Mormon, which was very
interesting. We were able to help him see truth versus lies and myths and
settled a lot of other affairs. We will see him again.
On
Thursday we were going to go big with seeing people. We planned to see
approximately 20 names on one of the two peninsulas. We ended up biking 16 miles
trying to find everyone but taught only one lesson. We were really frustrated,
but gratefully, the Mitchell's invited us back so we had a delicious fajita
dinner.
On Friday
we had yet another investigator chew us out and throw some anti-Mormon materials
at our face. Hanz had a baptismal date for the longest time and then found some
anti material involving the Book of Abraham. According to this
"expert" the book and translation was completely false and that
started Hanz's disbelief in the church as well as Joseph Smith.
He threw
a ton of junk at us and criticized us for not letting non-members enter the
temple. When we tried to explain answers to his questions, he would shift to another
topic. After that we went over to a member who we actually found out converted
from the religion Hanz currently attends. We had a great discussion with him
and he helped us out. I'm going to miss making “Frozen” references, but I think
it's a good thing we won't see him again.
The rest
of the week went like this till Sunday. I was so frustrated by the lack of
success and nothing happening. I prayed a ton and then finally felt that I
needed to bear my testimony on Sunday. So I started bearing my testimony on the
power of missionary work. As a result we have 4 splits with members this week,
and the ward seems to be more
missionary minded which is good. Conference also helped a ton.
It's been
super hard but things are starting to look up. We are under tornado watch
currently so that's exciting. I'll say hi to Scarecrow for ya!
I also
encourage everyone to go see “Meet the Mormons.” It's a really fun and awesome movie
that has a lot of great parts in it. We were able to screen it as a mission and
we loved it. It's really touching and has something for everyone.
Hope you
all are doing well,
Elder Peery
Sorry I
don't have too many pictures this week. Haven't really had time.
1. The view from our apartment.
We've biked up to the water tower several times. Lots of fun but there's a
pretty steep hill both ways.
2. Gym in the Madison Stake Center.
It's about twice the size of the Reston Ward building's gym.
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