Well, I've now been in Houston for 2 weeks. Thats really crazy to
think about actually. It feels like I've been here forever. Not in a bad
way, it just feels like an eternity ago that I was at the MTC.
Hmmm.. It might be even harder to think of what to write here than
it was at the MTC. The days seem to go by pretty fast and almost blur
together.
This last week was pretty eventful (now that I look back at my
planner and remember what happened). We had a zone meeting which was
really good. There were some awesome testimonies given that really
helped us to see why we are here serving missions and how we can become
better by relying on the Lord. It was a really awesome and spiritual
meeting.
I am working on trying to get acquainted with the members in our
ward. Its coming along, slowly but surely. We have had a couple
opportunities to visit families homes for dinner and it has been great
to get to know them. One of those ooccasions led to the interesting part
of P-Day last week. P-Day is on Thursday here. We met with one of the
families on Wednesday night. Through our discussions, we found out that
they were going to a hockey game the next day and that it happened to be
a t 11:00am. Whoa, opportunity. We went through the line of authority
trying to find out if we would be able to go and eventually got the
answer that we could. So for P-Day, we went to a Houston Aeros game. It
was a lot of fun.
We have kept trying to meet with our investigators, with varying
amounts of success. Many of our investigators aren't progressing or just
wont respond to our efforts to contact them. So our main focus is
shifting to finding new people to teach.
Two of our current investigators are Andrew and Tiffany. They are
brother and sister ages 10 and 7, respectively. Tiffany actually turns 8
on Christmas. So we have been teaching them as best as we know to teach
younger kids, struggling to keep their attention and trying to
determine what things they really need to understand. Well, Tiffany had
always had a little bit of an interest in being baptized, but Andrew not
so much. They haven;t been coming to church either, at least not since
I've gotten here. We have just kept trying. One idea that we had was to
get them to a member's home for dinner and try to teach them there,
thinking that maybe they would focus more and then having spent some
more time with members, want to go to church. Well, we were able to set
up going to the Bishop's house, who had some kids around the same age.
And it worked great. We used an object lesson to teach repentance and
the gospel of Christ. They payed more attention and by the end both of
them had some desire to be baptized. Rest of the story to come as it
happens...
So as for Christmas, we don't know yet when phone calls are going
to happen, or really what our plans are at all for the day. I will be
sure to get you the info as quick as I can. We do have a mission
conference on Christmas Eve, which should be really good. Its really
strange to think that its Christmas time already though. Its now very
cold, though there was a few days that it did drop into the 40s, or
thereabouts.
Well thats about all I've got for now,
Elder Phong Manhardt
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