Things this week went about a million times better than last week, and then some! I'll try to start on Monday, but here days still seem like weeks, so I'm sorry if I forget things. I will try my best.
So Monday, after our P-Day was done, we helped out at family home evening. We played hockey (yay....). Luckily, I wasn't the worst at it, so being Canadian and having to play it in Phys. Ed. paid off! Haha! It was really fun. Even though the branch here is small, the JAE (YSA) group is strong and do a lot. It probably helps because of Elder and Sister G. Who could be the funniest people I have ever met. Elder G was in the hospital all last week, and so we went to visit him a couple times, he has very similar ideas as Dad does, so it was funny. President and Sister Miles also came on Monday to visit him, so it was nice to see them. A little sooner than I thought I would, but still good. They are so wonderful. And funny. So on Monday we didn't really do a whole bunch because it was our P-Day.
The rest of the week we focused a lot on finding new investigators, as we had 0. Haha! We spent a lot of time tracting, and Wednesday we spent pretty much all day. We had a couple of interesting experiences with that. Lots of people yelled at us for going to their door, more people answered while they were not decent. Something I cannot begin to understand. The best was when one person yelled at us to leave her building (we were doing it in an apartment), and then we just went to the next door (admittedly, not the best choice) and so then she kept yelling at us, and then to show her disgust she shook her floor mat out on us. She was really unhappy. I don't know what it was that we did, or why she was so angry, but she really was. It was fun. NOT. It's interesting to me to see how different people react to us.
So after that all day, we went on Member Splits. Elder H went with Sister G (Elder G was still in the hospital), and one of the ward members to teach the family we taught last week. I went with one of the JAE's, and we taught someone who was being taught about a year ago, but then stopped. We taught about prayer, and luckily we taught in English! She said so many interesting things, about how since the missionaries stopped meeting with her, something in her life was missing, about how the missionaries always seemed to phone her when things in her life were going really bad, and how even though she sometimes would regret making appointments right after, it was always what she needed to hear, and she loved hearing it. It was so nice to hear that. It was kind of the win that we needed after having a couple crappy days. We also made an appointment to meet with a couple on Sunday, but we will talk about that later on in the letter.
Friday was a great day. We went on exchanges with the Zone Leaders (Elder W and Elder W). They were both awesome, and were good missionaries. I really liked them both. We had our Ausstellung on Friday, or street display. Boy is that something else. Nothing like a good slice of humble pie by being rejected by every person you see for 4 hours. Delicious! It was actually really fun though. We were in front of the museum between some buskers (People who play music for money, this one was guitar, down the street it was also accordion (awesome!)), and the Animal Rights Activists. I think people got the wrong idea about us because we were close to the Animal Rights Activists. So they gave us weird looks. Especially because were in our white shirts and ties, and they were in their sweet sleeveless shirts, dreadlocks down to their knees (No joke! It was the scariest!), and that lovely aroma that comes from not showering for a while. It was really good though, and despite the large amount of rejection we made quite a few appointments out. Later that evening we were walking home from our bus-stop and someone from the restaurant across the street started yelling at us for us to come there. We were a little confused, because we didn't know what he wanted, but he wanted to know who we were because he saw us walking by every day and was so confused. We made an appointment with him again so we taught him on Saturday. He is the funniest guy. Saturday and Sunday were both really good days. We met with quite a few investigators who I think had been really prepared for us.
On Saturday, we went back to the restaurant and taught the man from Friday. We gave him a Book of Mormon in Arabic (He is from Jordan), and he was so excited about it. He said that since we'd met him the day before he had gone and read a lot about the church and was so excited because he'd read tons of really good stuff and wanted to know more about it. We made an appointment to meet with him later, and he wants us to meet at his house next time so we can talk to his family about it more. We also met with the lady that we met last P-Day. We had a really good lesson with her too. When we gave the opening prayer she felt the spirit so strongly that she started to cry. It was amazing to see! We gave her a Book of Mormon, and she was excited about it because she wanted to always feel like she did when we were praying. She is such an awesome lady as well. Then we met with that couple from Wednesday and gave them, and their daughter a Book of Mormon. They both seemed really excited about it, and when we told them that it was about Christ, they even knew a little bit about the scripture in maybe Romans? About ''And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold, them also I must bring and they shall hear my voice. And there shall be one fold and one shepherd.'' It was super awesome. We met with a couple of other people and taught them quick lessons on the street, but haven't been able to see them since (It was on Friday, and we have been fairly busy since.) but things are really looking up here. We now have people to teach. As frustrating as this past week has been, I think that it helped us both to take things more seriously, and to realize a lot more why we are here, and what exactly we need to be doing. Hopefully things will continue to be good here. But I have faith that we will. Life here is super good.
As for the questions people asked. Food here is wonderful. We have only had one dinner appointment, but it was delicious. We also had Schnitzel our first night in the mission home which was also wonderful! So I think it's good. Just haven't had too much authentic, but that will come with time I'm sure. Just need to do more schmoozing? Haha!
I love it here a lot. Say hi to people for me. And to send me letters if they wanted. Hint Hint! Haha!
Sincerely,
Elder Connor J. Thompson
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