Dad I'm excited for you to be serving with Bishop Johnson (well...now President Johnson), he's always been one of my favorites. Tell him thank you for me.
This week is a blur. We made a standard! Our mission goal is to get 70 contacts in a week, and we've never made it to 50 and this week we got 70! We only had a short amount of time to tract yesterday and we only had 11 left so we ran from house to house because we wanted to get our 11. Well, the Lord blessed us and we got exactly 11! However, we were 15 minutes late to our appointment because we ended up talking to this one lady for days.
We did tables at KSU, it's both fun and hard. It can be really awkward just going up to random students my age and trying to talk about Jesus with them. Some are really receptive and nice, others are just downright rude and/or awkward. IT's great though because the people who really listen are the people who are hard to forget. Also, one of the members in the branch had work off that whole Wednesday we did tables so he hung out with us the whole day and came to lessons with us and bought us dinner. It was way nice of him and now we want to do that with other members in the branch, especially the ones that are planning to go on missions or have not gone on a one and should sometime soon. This guy has gone on a mission, so he was nice to have around for tips and knowledge and all that good stuff.
We went tracting in this ghetto ish apartment complex and we taught to these people while they were smoking, which was fine, but one guy was rolling a doobie most of the time we were talking to him. However, two of the people in the group actually seemed legitimately interested and asked us for a Book of Mormon. Hope they feel the spirit when they read it. :P Anyway, in this area there was a lady who was getting out of her car and I took the opportune moment to ask if she needed help and she said she was fine, but she wanted to know what we were all about. We briefly taught her a little bit about the Book of Mormon and she said," my mom is native american and I've always wondered where they started and how they started." Also, she's from Northern California! And we got her number and have been keeping in touch with her so that we can teach her this week. Let's hope it goes well.
In another area where we were tracting this wonderful lady answered and seemed weary at first, but then she felt our spirit and let us talk to her about Joseph Smith and Jesus Christ. At the end she said she wanted us to come talk to her daughter. She said that her daughter has been going through some rough things and she needs God in her life. I think she knew we had something that her daughter doesn't have yet, and that we could help her. So she was an awesome contact.
A few days ago we taught these two Christians that only really met with us so that they could prove us wrong. That was both really awesome and caused me a lot of anxiety. It was great because we taught them the first lesson the best we've ever taught it before. I felt the spirit the entire time! And then they were kind of dumbfounded when we finished and they just sat there like they didn't know what to say. Eventually their demeanors changed and they began bashing us. That was not fun. However, I bore my testimony with the most strength I think I've ever born it and they got quiet again. It was quite awesome to watch to be honest. But again, I really do not like bible bashing, neither party is going to change and the only thing I can hope to do is to bear my testimony and hope they feel the spirit. People aren't converted by facts, they're converted by the Spirit.
Last night we taught this man who is getting divorced today. It was hectic. His son was running around and his dog was going crazy, I felt so much stress and yet somehow the spirit was present. I had such a mix of emotions last night that I didn't really know how to respond to the whole lesson when we came home.
I can't think of anything else to report. Anyway, I know my favorite scripture now: Jacob 6:12 "O be wise, what can I say more?" Nothing hits the core quite like a simple question that is still yet profound.
Much love!
Jocelyn
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