This week was pretty horrible but good at the same time for real. So i think ill start with the bad stuff.
Scotts baptism is off.....hows that for a good start. He got back from detroit on thursday and i guess he blew up at his dad and apparently Scott is bipolar and he just crashed. Well after talking to his dad and stuff we called Scott that night and he basically said the baptisms off and he is going a different direction. When we asked what his plans were he said he was going back to the baptist church and cutting all ties with his dad. What the crap man. He said "you guys have more important things to do than waste your time with me" So that made me pretty mad to put it nicely. Im going to call him up tonight and tell him what we are even here on a mission for. ridiculous people man. They need to grow up, thats just it. Things were so good. he was done with everything. Ready for baptism, then this crap happens and he screws up that opportunity.
That was basically the bad thing that happened. Except Noel and Marcia didnt come to church. Plus the branch is freaking crazy, im going to have to rebuke them i think....They decided, without asking us or including us at all, to do splits every single night this week.....And we are supposed to come up with all the people to go see. So that means we have to find 20 appointments and shove them all into our 7-9 block of time..its just ridiculous im telling you. This branch is really focused on missionary work. but they dont understand what they are doing and they dont understand that the 20 lessons a week is a means to getting more investigators......i havent received one referral in the 3 months i have been here. They are focused way too much on lessons and not enough on anyhting else. we got 19 lessons this week and they were really dissapointed that we didnt reach 20.....so next week we are probably going to stand up in elders quorum and go over Elder Perrys challenge and tell them whats up basically. I love the branch, they are just missing the mark, most of my problems come from the Branch president and mission leader which is sad, and mom its going to be hard to stay away from that "wierd man" since he is our mission leader and he calls us like 8 times a day. But im doing my best, trust me. haha. He actually started calling private so we wouldnt know it was him...sneaky old man....
so on with the good stuff.
On wednesday we went on tradeofs with bear lake. I had Elder Bird.. hes a stud. We saw the Hinds who i think we have talked about and taught the restoration to the,. She brought up a bunch of questions about the priesthood and healings and stuff. Things that they had asked ministers and they didnt like the answers they had gotten. so they asked me the same questions and they liked all the answers, so that was good. but they are going to be hard. Storm started talking about how she knows she is saved and that she doesnt need to know about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith because she is already saved. They have both read the bom and prayed and never got an answer, so she still has a lot of questions and concerns with everything, eventually i told them to give the Book of Mormon another chance and i focused on praying sincerely and with real intent. and out of nowhere richard finally talks and he said " ya know what...We'll do it. We'll read it and pray about it" so hopefully they aren't too far gone and can read with open minds about it....crazy stuff.
Then we went over to see Noel! The young women came over before we started the lesson and brought some cookies and invited her out on wednesdays and it was really good. After they left she said she has been wanting to get back into youth groups and find some more friends. We taught her the plan of salvation, and it was awesome! she said it cleared up all her questions about it. The missionaries that had taught her in the past had confused her. She started bring up how they used tents and buildings to represent the kingdoms of glory and all this dumb clutter stuff. Thats why analogies and object lessons suck. Thank you Elder Jensen for saying no more to that. But it was good. i ended up leaving her with a soft baptismal commitment if you know what that is, she said yes and she told us she really wanted to come to church and she would come....but turns out they didnt. And crap i forgot to call them. Turns out she has a dang good voice too! We went to mancelona because they are having this festival up there and she made it to the finals in this singing contest. turns out she lost. She sang a Celine Dion song and i think thats why she didnt win..she hit all the notes and everything which was impressive, but its Celine dion......ya know?
We had interviews on Friday. They were a lot different than normal. We all met together in a room and he told us to think about what keeps us up at night, or something that is on your mind a lot, then think of the solution and then bear your testimony, and it was sweet. he started and then we went around the room. The spirit was there very strong and it was really good. Then we had individual interviews and he scared me a little not going to lie. He started talking about giving me "opportunities" and how he needs me in other areas for other tasks and stuff and he said that my shoulders are going to get a little broader with responsibilities....scary stuff. haha. This is what he opened everything up with "Elder Larsen, its been neat to see your growth and you are becoming a great missionary blah blah blah, and you might even amount to something." i was like wow President thank you, that means a lot. HAHA!!! Then he talked about how when we first came out with all the other mission presidents, they were all in a room and Elder Ballard got up to the pulpit and talking about the group he said "Its not much, but it will do." so it was in that kind of spirit....if that was supposed to make me feel better. haha. I told him i wanted to stay in kalkaska with Elder Lloyd one more transfer and he said its a good idea. but i cant promise you any more than that. so we will see what happens, transfer calls are this friday, so we will see how it all plays out then.
So things kinda sucked this week, but we have some new opportunities coming up, so hopefully we will see some good things happen this week. Something good is bound to happen after that crap, thats just how things work. So that my story and im sticking to it. love you guys, have a good one!
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\m/ ~ Elder Larsen ~ \m/
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