how bout that broadcast last night? holy army of missionaries. the work is hastening. its a blessing to be part of the work in such an amazing time of change. The field is now more white than ever. the lord is preparing more people ...more families! and i can testify of that. this week has been absolutely amazing.
tuesday i had exchanges with my district leader elder green. gotta tell ya he is the man. had one great exchange. i was out in the small town of chilton wisconsin! farms farms and more farms. and no wheel lines...what tha heck. but being there definently brought back some memories from idaho! so elder oaks when he was here last weekend talked about power approaches.... aproaches that will spark intrest and be personable and spiritual. so.....our goal for the exchange was to make some power aproaches...and that we did. we had several appointments that day but they ended up falling through so...trackting it was!!! chose a street and started knocking. door after door after door people slammed the door in our face. but we kept at it. we got to the end of the street and there were two kids outside immedieatly they started asking us who are you why are you dressed funny haha they wanted us to come in but of course we needed their parents permission...so they went running inside and told their mom somebodys at the door. the kids came sprinting back outside and the mom came around the corner..opened the door...saw it was us...screemed at the kids to come back inside...told us to never come back... and then slammed the door. "what the heck " elder green and i were thinkin as we walked away. we are really nice people i promise!! we walked away and saw the little girl waving at us through the window...
despite rejection after rejection we really got some door aproach practice... thats a good way to look at it and maybe next time missionarys knock on the door they will give them a chance! we hope! later that night elder green used my spanish capabilities to his advantage and we went and contacted his investigators over there that struggle with english! met some amazing families and was able to roll with some really great aproaches! white people are a little more mean when you knock on there door haha. so wednesday afternoon i returned back to green bay spanish! elder jimenez and i had a first appointment set up for 6. (you will get a crack up out of this) we knocked on the door and before we were even done knocking hno maceda opened the door ...the house was silent. we looked into the family room and there was the whole family, kids and all, sitting reverently with their arms folded waiting for us! prepared? man... one amazing lesson to an amazing family. we didnt set any dates but accepted the invitation! tonight we have our second lesson and will definently be setting some dates.! pretty excited.
so friday ... we got a call from the sisters the were excited to give us a refferal that they had gotten that morning at the park! they said he wanted to be baptized? man thats a good start. so we had an appointment with him at 3 on saturday he was gonna come see us during his lunch break at work but got really busy and couldnt... well that took up a good part of our day so we ended up just trackting the rest of the day at the trailers. went and saw some formers set up some appointments. the busses end at 5 on saturdays so we had to walk home... by this time those who have served missions understand how your feelin after a long day of trackting and not much success...so we were walking home almost there and i turn around and see elder jimenez just standing there..."hey elder we need to go down this street i think" i looked at my watch 8:40.."elder its about time to be in" i said. he insisted to walk this street though...so we did. we turned the corner and there was a family outside talking just having a good time enjoying the nice weather. belen and demetrio! ends up ten years ago her mom would have the elders over every week. but she would be leaving to work so she never really got to sit in on lessons. they are an amazing hispanc family!!! so prepared. we taught about the book of mormon and they were so excited. the spirit was so strong as we stood out on their driveway and taught through the book of mormon this great gospel of our savior. it was amazing...and because my switch was almost turned off for the day...we almost missed it....its moments like what happened saturday night that makes a day full of fall throughs and not to much success... worth every second. we have an apointment with them tonight as well!!
well i love you all! your the greatest. been blessed with miracles this week....everyday ive seen miracles in my mission...but this week was an amazing week. hard, but so rewarding. this work is amazing!!
-Elder Harper-Smith
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