10/13/2008

No longer homeless
Yes, we have a place!! We are out of the extremely messy and crowded pad. The sad thing is that only one of the elder's living there is within six months of going home, and he wasn't my trainer. I hope for the one elder that tries that they can pull themselves together sometime. But anyway...
So, moving seemed to be the biggest part of our week. We had interviews with the mission president on Tuesday, and he simply told me to do the best I could in any situation, and work hard. It was a short interview as we were over an hour behind schedule. It was nice to be able to talk to him for a little though, and to realize that I am not expected to be super-missionary and straighten everything out. It was very reassuring (sp?).
The work right now in our ward is a bit slow since this ward really has been neglected by missionaries since my companion left the first time. We are really trying to get members involved, teach them lessons, and have them invite people for us to teach. Problem is that our ward only has about 30-40 active members, and most work during the day. Our ward probably has the same amount of area as West Valley (well, maybe not completely), and then we have some members that live all over the stake (bigger than west valley). We don't have a car either,
so I am getting a lot of walking in, and begging for rides as well.
We are having a couple interesting stories developing though. Two part member/less active families in our ward seem to be interested in learning. One especially we saw last night as we were walking home. We were thinking of stopping by the house, but it looked dark and we didn't want to disturb them if the kids were going to bed or they were all watching a movie together, so we decided to keep walking. About 30 feet down the sidewalk, we hear someone yelling "Hey missionaries!". We turned around to see the wife (non-member) standing on her balcony waving to us. She told us to come back, so we went and talked to her for a couple of minutes. She had a few requests for us, one being when she could feed us and another if we could find someone to read the book of mormon in spanish to her mother. She told us she had decided she wouldn't get
baptised until after her mother died because her mother was a devout Catholic, but the night before they had had a long conversation, and suddenly her mother was open to learning. So yeah, it was super cool. Especially when she said she had been thinking about us when she saw us walking down the sidewalk... It was definately a moment when the spirit was involved.
Well, I have two elders behind me wanting to use the computer that our complex has for its residents (there are two, but one is currently broken), so I had better let them get on. I love you all. As always, thank you for the support!
Elder Kidd
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