It's been the best week ever! Even if we didn't have a car for most of it. We walked plenty. That was tiring and warm. Still had some good results though!
On Tuesday we had to take the car back into the shop after making some visits in the morning. We were still having electrical problems. They seemed to think it would be pretty fast though, so they just sent us on our way. It has not been fast, so we've been walking around. Luckily our mission president has introduced a flexible schedule for us to use so we can meet new people and beat the heat. We can leave the apartment at around 7 in the morning and start to street contact, then do our studies and exercise later in the day. We've been able to beat the heat a little by doing that. It just makes for some really long mornings.
And so most of the week passed that way, with a lot of walking around. It was rough not being able to go to most of our area- Monica ward is spread out and covers a couple other towns. Luckily, we weren't stuck forever. We talked to the assistants, and on Friday they told us to come by the mission office to grab another car to use. They ended up giving us a corolla that was supposed to be sold soon--it was actually the one Elder McEntire had been using in his last area. Because of the lack of new cars, he had to use one that normally would have been sold already (at 50000 miles) and now he gets to ride in it again, but at 60000. It's definitely the oldest car in the mission. Driven by me, the first one in our group to get to the MTC, so now I'm also the one who's been away from home the longest. Old missionary in an old car.
Not to say that all that happened this week was car related nonsense, we still managed to get some stuff done. A guy in our ward who just got his mission call took us out to Lamont so that we could visit Lorena. She's really starting to progress and understand more, and her husband is opening up to the gospel a lot more as well. He wasn't there because he works a lot, but he's normally there when we visit on Sundays. Lorena came to church, too!
We also got to meet with Roberto on Saturday night. We just kinda showed up at his house, and he's normally opt around when we try that, but he was then. He was really glad for the visit because he's been having a rough time. We got to sit down and chat for a while, and have an incredible lesson about prayer. Then he came to church on Sunday! Yes! We were really excited to see him there, and he had a great time.
We met with a super cool part member family this week too. The dad isn't a member, and has said he doesn't intend to join, but he wants his kids raised in the gospel. The eight year old son turns nine on July 7th, and the bishop told us to just teach him all the lessons. It'll be a good chance to teach the family, too. We're super excited about helping them get more active and closer to God together.
The results of this week have been so fantastic. Every companionship in the district had such a great week and their investigators are progressing so so well. It's so satisfying to see, especially having seen and heard how much time and effort has been put into these areas and helping the people come unto Christ. The next five weeks are going to be incredibly busy. The Lord is blessing these areas and we get to be a part of it. That's so cool.
Thanks for all your support everyone!
Elder Adams
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