First off... I got a Haircut!
This week our investigator on baptismal date got super sick and we had to move the date of his baptism to the first week in March. So sad. We are going to give him a blessing this week in hopes that he will feel better soon. It sure seems that all of our investigators are getting sick and keep canceling appointments due to sickness. What is going around? We have been trying our hardest to meet with people this week but things just kept going bad.
We were able to teach the Salioski Family the 1st lesson two weeks ago and they loved it! They are super prepared and we were planning on inviting them to baptism this week and we were sure that they would say yes........ but... we called them on Tuesday to meet again and we received some really sad news. It turns out that our Macedonian family are not just super prepared to receive the restored gospel but also....illegal immigrants and are getting deported this week... So that is not exactly great news.
On a brighter side, I got to go on exchange this week with Elder Nielson, a missionary from Delta Utah who is going home in two weeks. We had an awesome experience as we were opening our mouths "talking to everyone we pass" and had been out in the snow for 3 hours talking to people and just kept getting rejected and yelled at by people when we saw a old man walking down the road and we decided to go and talk to him. We went up and just said hello and he was so happy to see us he said "what you are doing is so good!" and " I knew you were servants of God before you even talked to me", so we talked to him for a while and we asked him how he had such a strong testimony. He told us about his experience as a younger man where he found out for himself that he was a child of God and that we are all children of God. This man had such a strong testimony and he was not ashamed to share it. In fact, as we sat and talked he said he wanted to sing us a song from his church and he sang to us softly and started crying in the middle of a busy road. He then read our name tags and saw Kirche Jesu Christi Der Heiligen Der Letzen Tage
He said he had never heard of our church before and he would definitely be interested in learning more about it in his home town in Austria. He then grabbed us and bore his testimony about our work that we are doing and he hugged us and gave us his blessing and then he tottered on down the street.
Elder Nielson and I just sat there in shock for probably 5 minutes. I know that that sounds like such a weird and random experience but the spirit was so strong and that man strengthened my testimony!
This week has been a great week! It has been a really hard and sad week, but I have learned so much in the last 7 days and I can't wait for this next week!:)
I really just love being a missionary!
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