12-6-10

This week has been very interesting. We have had very high ups, and very low downs. On Tuesday we taught Fr* again. We taught some of the commandments, obedience, follow the prophet, keep the sabbath day holy,... and the Law of chastity. We weren't sure how it would turn out but it actually went pretty well. We resolved mostly everything but we got to make sure on some of the stuff. Anyways later that day we had a lesson with this guy named An*. We had tracted into him like a week or more ago. We started teaching him and he was really interested and didn't really have any religious knowledge but did believe in God. So that was really cool.

On Wednesday we spent most of the day weekly planning and cutting more wood for service. And that was pretty much it not a lot to that day. Thursday wasn't too exciting either. We went by Fr*'s again and then did some tracting. Friday we had district meeting. After that we went home and decided to try and see Ju* who we used to go over and see all the time. We read 2 Nephi 31 with her which talks about the doctrine of Christ. Then we got on to the topic of church. We asked her to commit to come to church. She brought up every excuse and concern why she wouldn't and we smashed them all. Then a the end she agreed to take a church tour with us.

This is where things start to get bad. Saturday we were supposed to see Fr* at 1. We go over there and theres no answer. So we walk around for a while and try again. No answer. We left him a note and stuff to tell him that we came by and to give us a call. Then we had one of our members come with us over to Ju*'s to go to the church building. The member picked her up and we all drove over to the building in Fox Creek. We get there and show her the building and the sacrament table and sing a hymn and show her the baptismal font. It was one of the most spiritual things ever. Then as we are leaving our member invited her to come to church and she said no. She basically said that she would never change from catholic. And that she may have received her answer but that she wasn't listening to it. We came back home from that and we were both pretty mad, sad, disappointed, discouraged. We then tried to see one of our investigators, An* but her car wasn't there. SO we went back to the apartment and did a little bit of cleaning. We decided to try her again so we went by and she was home. She finally said that if she got better that she would come to church (because she had a cold). So we gave her a blessing and later called a bunch of missionaries to pray that she would get better. After teaching An* we went to La*'s house to read from the book of Mormon with him. We were on 1 Nephi 19 and he decided to just finish the book of 1 Nephi which is 4 chapters, two of which are Isaiah chapters. So we read all 10 pages and that took about an hour. We finally got home at like 8 and ate dinner.

Then came Sunday. We called up An* at 8 to remind her of church and she said that she wasn't coming because she had been up all night coughing. That put a huge damper on us. We were both pretty down because that happened. We get to church and the branch presidency chastised us because we had brought Fr* to church last week. They were mad because he is apparently a health hazard. The health department said that he wasn't allowed near the hot deli in the grocery store that's owned by a member. So that was real helpful for our day. After church we went to our apartment and had a few hours to work before the Christmas devotional started. So we tracted a little and tried to see some people. The Christmas devotional was really good. I liked how president Uctdorf referenced the Grinch in his talk. Any ways that was pretty much it for me this past week. Hopefully this week will be better.

I did get the package today. Thank you. I'll be printing out pictures at walmart today so ill send you my card soon. other then that there's not much to write about. I love you all and cant wait to talk to you on Christmas!!!

Elder Butler