Monday, March 4, 2013

References from members, Janice and Gabriel; Evandro

     Hey there family!  How is everybody doing? How is school/work going for everyone? It was really cool to hear about the baby blessing of Celecta and see some of those pictures.  Haha she looks really cute and happy, so congratulations Celecta and Ryan and also Grandpa and Grandma!
     We had a pretty good week here.  We focused on teaching our investigators that had already visited the church and have the most potential and also on finding new investigators.  We received some good references that are friends of members which are always really good.  We had 2 of the references come to church and they both said that they really liked it! One is named Janice and is a friend of one of the young women in the ward, and the other is named Gabriel and is a good friend of one of the young men.  Both of them are youth and we are really excited for them because usually the youth have a good chance of continuing going to church, especially if they have friends there. We are going to work extra hard to teach them and hopefully they will continue to progress.   
     Also something cool happened as we were trying to find new investigators.  We had a car pull up in front of us and the man inside told us that he wanted us to pass by his house because he had talked to missionaries before in another city.  His name is Evandro and he gave us his telephone number and his address.  We tried visiting with him a couple of times this week, but he was really busy this week and we couldn't meet up with him.  But he is probably is interested because he stopped us and asked for us to visit him, and that's not something that is super common. We will try to visit him this up coming week and hopefully we can help him out.
     One of the things that was kind of disappointing is that we had a baptism date fall because Leandra and her family still are having troubles coming to church, even though every time we visit them in their house, they say that they want to go to church.  We visited them with a member that lives near by and we set up a plan that the member would pick them up on Sunday, but early that morning they called the member and said that they wouldn't be able to make it to church that day.  Elder Marques and I are trying to find out what is stopping them and understand how we can help out the family.  They are all really cool and receive us very well, always paying attention and participating in the lessons, but something always seems to come up for them on  Sunday morning. 
     Well we need to run today because we are going to Caxias for this P-day.  The plan is to go play some volleyball at a park but its really rainy here in Bento Gonçalves so maybe we are going to have to do an alternative plan.   But I hope you guys have an awesome week!  Take care!

Love,
Elder Gee

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