It's a new transfer, and we got phone calls on Saturday, no one is moving here in the seven springs branch, this past week has been really crazy, a lot of things happened that I didn't expect. Let me explain.
So on this week, Monday we had a lesson with our progressing investigator, Sherry. We met with her and talked to her about the Ten Commandments, and it was really good, we explained all of that, and what we need to do to be happier people in our lives and more love showing to God and of our fellow men. After that we brought up baptism with her, because she had a baptismal date before, at the beginning of March, and now it's almost the middle of April. We talked about how important Baptism is and how it's a commandment, brought up 2 Nephi 31: 6 about how we need to be baptized in this life. We committed her to choose a date and she said she would in the next few days. Anyway, it was a really really good lesson. On Wednesday, she texted us back with "I can't commit to a date right now" and we were really sad because we know that baptism is an exercise of faith, and that unless we put our faith in a date, most of the time things don't work out the way they should.
We got a new investigator on Tuesday, someone that Sister Yu referred to us, he's a waiter at one of her favorite chinese restaurants. His name is Randy, and he is from Mainland China. We met with him before work at Starbucks right next to where he works, and got to know him a little bit better. We taught and explained the Restoration of the Gospel. He had a lot of good questions, and seemed to understand everything we taught when we asked him 'understanding questions' back. So that was really good. He's in his 40's and a father of two children with his wife staying at home taking care of the children. It was a really great lesson, and we have another tentative appointment with him tomorrow morning.
Wednesday we went on exchanges with Elder Baldwin, since he's in a tri-panionship, three elders, he just came with Elder Zollinger and I into our own area, it was a kind of weird day, we didn't have much success, and it was hard to get a hold of people and get people to answer their doors. But we ended off with 2 lessons, one with a non-member, and another with an active member.
Thursday was a really good day, I think sanchez loves mcallister and sonenstahl and cant wait to be renuited with us in the hereafter <-- that was other elders, anyway. Thursday we had a great day, we met with our English class after our training meeting, and then we met with an investigator thats moving to Texas named Aimin, his family is the Xiong family, they are wonderful, he is trying to find work in Houston before he leaves here, so I had Elder Zollinger call people I knew in Texas for Aimin on his phone, to help find job opportunities, and so we eventually got a hold of Julee, I didn't talk to her at all, it was just Elder Zollinger. It was funny haha. I couldn't talk to her at all. We got some information for Aimin and then we shared a lesson and left.
The highlight I think of the week was going to the Oakland Temple on Saturday, we went there with our branch, and we got permission to go up with our branch instead of the mission on April 4, so we went and planned, got there around 10, and did an english endowment, then did lunch and initiatories, then we had a chance for a chapel session with most of the branch members, then we headed up with our Chinese language endowment, it was really awesome, I understood probably 95% of what was said and presented, it was a great great day. Right after we had a potluck in the interstake center next to the temple, and it was just a great day.
The next day we had church and found out that our branch presidency was being reorganized, so that was really interesting. I will miss Pres Law as our Branch President.
That was our week generally, we are starting to see miracles happen, and things are changing rapidly, not only in the work, but in our own lives as well.
Happy 20 month mark everyone, I can't believe it's been this long.
Love,
Elder Sanchez
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