Saturday we hit up our usual locations for some street contacting. It's a nice little street with lots of boutiques, food and people. This Saturday, however, much to our enjoyment was a Beerwalk! Hundreds of people were roaming the streets from store to store sampling beer. It was a missionaries' dream. We talked to almost 300 people in 30 min, giving out pictures of Jesus, mormon.org cards and calling all to drop their glasses and come sing praises to the Lord. haha. You could see some people's head's hung in shame and others were very grateful for the religious reminder. All in all we did our duty and we sure cried repentance that day. It was fantastic!
Our family of baptism dates finally made it to church again and they've decided to get married this weekend so we really could be having a huge baptism in a few weeks. This is nothing less than a gigantic miracle since they've stood us up for every appointment the past two weeks and we've resorted to stalking them outside the house in our car - obviously with the seats down - waiting for them to come home. I am not going to hold my breath, but they know what they need to do to get baptized and they know they want it so we are going to do everything we can to get them there. Since this is part of a huge part member family if they all get dunked we will have plenty more in no time and we might actually double the ward with this one family. whoop whoop!
Yes, our possessed investigator is still after us. Our phone continues to ring and we have creepy messages. She even showed up to the chapel one day last week and talked to the Elders. She said she was going to come to church so we had some ghostbusters on call yesterday, but she didn't show. She did however, just call us again 2 min ago. Yikes.
On the brighter side, I've been reflecting (ooh that sounds so fancy) a lot on some of the things Elder Gavarett and his lovely wife said during his visit with us last week. He reminded us to never be afraid to declare ourselves. Our purpose is to serve the Lord, to spread the word and to make sure everyone we come in contact with knows of Jesus Christ. That turns out to not be super easy. However, there is no reason we shouldn't have the confidence to be bold in our declaration. This is the truth, this is the Lord's work and we have Him on our team. The only fear is of man, what other's might think or our own levels of pride. It's something I'm trying to remind myself of every single day when I look at my name tag. I know who I am right now, I know what I am here to do and I know whose name I bear every single day - I truly have nothing to fear. The same goes for every member of this church, we need not fear declaring the word of the Lord - I promise, He promises, He has our back. Elder Gavarett's wife also reminded us that we control the weather in our own mind. If we want a sunny day we need only put up a sun in our window. Although the world may be rainy or dark, we can make our own mind bright by remembering who we are and again what we are really here to do. Which, by the way is to keep the commandments and be happy forever. Yay!
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