Rockin and a knockin
So this week was awesome, but it was also one of those weeks where the Lord tested our patience and our faith. The zone leaders challenged us to hit our hastening the work standard for contacts (basically to get 150 contacts with people) for the week. So to do that we had to hit the streets hard. And I don't know if we picked a bad area or what but 90% of the doors barely let us start speaking before they'd say "not interested" and shut the door. So we had very little success with that but the awesome stuff came at the end of the week.
Wednesday we had interviews with President McSwain. Those went really well. They gave us a little training about the #PRINCEofPEACE Easter initiative the church is doing this year and I got to see Elder Banks again (one of my previous companions) as well as Elder Rossi (another previous companion) who I haven't seen in almost 6 months. President is starting to crack down on obedience and making sure there are more missionaries ready to be leaders.
Thursday night we received a referral from a member, she said a coworker came up to her and told her about how her son has lived nothing but the party life and he finally has been making changes but he wants a faith or religion to help him fly straight. So the member said she would send the missionaries over to talk to her son and that's what we did on Friday. He's a really awesome guy and he was asking us all sorts of questions like what the commandments are and who Jesus Christ is and why He's important and all this stuff. He asked if he could come to church to check it out, which he did, and his parents even came as well. They knew a few people in the ward and even other members were really welcoming and introduced themselves. So please, if you ever see a new face at church, PLEASE go and introduce yourself, it helps so much.
Saturday we baptized our investigator Mason. We've been teaching him for about a month now. It's difficult to explain how he found the Church because it has something to do with something this rapper said. Mason followed the "signs" this rapper said to follow and it led him to the chapel where it happened to be a mutual night, so he met the YM president and the Bishop and since then he's started taking institute, been to church, made lots of friends in the YSA and just lives a purer life. It's been awesome to see. His family even came to the baptism on Saturday and his mom was tearing up. It was cool. We went out to KFC with some members afterwards for dinner.
I got some pictures of some cool as birds called rainbow lorikeets. They're actually pretty common but I finally caught some on camera because they were hanging out on our back fence.
Love you all
Elder Cummings
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