Jacob - January 18, 2016

Hey mom, glad to hear you had a good week week. Also thanks for
sharing what you taught at church. I think that's something that I'm
going to have to study with that flipped perspective and then relate
it back to my investigators. I think it'd be a cool lesson idea with
someone trying to understand the scriptures better. Anyways since I
wrote to you on Thursday I don't have a ton of stuff to write about..
I'll probably just do my best to answer the questions you asked. So my
investigators are doing alright. We've been doing quite a bit of
finding lately, but there are a few we are visiting on a regular
basis. Anyways some are doing alright, but it's kind of hard because a
lot of them aren't doing super great on the commitments we give them
and also sometimes it's hard to find them... Sometimes it feels like
the people we teach work nonstop. But we're trying our best to find
those that are prepared and willing to learn more about the church.
For instance on Friday we found a lady that has a crazy amount of
faith. She had cancer and all the way through it she was calm and knew
that Heavenly Father was going to help her. It was pretty cool to hear
her story and my comp and I are going to be going back tomorrow.
Hopefully that'll go well. That was probably one of the best
experiences these past few days. Oh and for my investigators we always
try and leave them at least something to do, whether it's to pray,
read the Book of Mormon, or read a pamphlet. We try and always leave a
commitment because when we commit, we are inviting them to repent. So
we try and do that as much as possible. Um for lessons... That's a
tough one. So we get tons of return appointments from door contacts,
but like 80% of the time they fall through. For instance this last
week we didn't have very many lessons even though we had tons of them
scheduled. But I am understanding the language better. Not a ton or
anything like that just little by little. I can usually say enough at
a door contact for them to understand me and know why were they're
there. But anyways it's all good. Some days it's hard, but I'm trying
to be patient. Elder Galleguillos and I are in somewhat of slump since
its been hard to tell who's progressing or who we should drop... Also
just getting constant and consistent visits with our most potential
investigators is super difficult. But it's alright. I'm kind of glad I
get to go through this now because it's at the times where we are
lowest is when we learn the most. I'm just trying to keep a good
attitude about and to keep working. Well I think that's probably most
of it for this week. I love you mom.

Elder Baer