Jacob - June 5, 2017

Hey everyone, this week went well. Lot's of work and things are going
well. We just saw a lot of the same people that we've been working
with. We picked up this "former" investigator and it's a weird
situation with her. She's going to need some miracles to get baptized,
but hopefully we'll be able to at least get her going to church again.
She's met with missionaries for a long time, I think first contact was
in 2013. Other people we are meeting with are doing sort of good.
They are really good in lessons, but they don't do their commitments
very well which makes it difficult for them to progress. But we are
working hard with them and trying to find new people as well. There's
a lot of hispanics in this area, but being in garden grove made me
forget that just because there are people, doesn't' mean they will all
be interested in the message. We here the same excuses on the regular.
For example "we are catholic" or "it's the same God, right?" It can be
frustrating, but we are staying patient and just try and help them see
the difference in what we believe. This past week we also went on an
exchange with an assistant to the president. It went well, but not
quite as crazy or special as I thought it was going to be. It was just
like being with another elder that works hard so nothing terribly
different than what I already am used to. He did share with us some
cool ideas and asked some thought provoking questions, I think we
asked him a few good questions too. It was a sort of strange exchange
because he was in the English program before being called to be an
assistant. So during the day he spoke minimal spanish, he knew enough
to say "hola", "como esta?", "le podría dar una tarjeta?" Really basic
things, but it still went well. Granted we live in the states, there
was plenty of English speaking people that we ran into. Overall that's
pretty much what my week was like. Nothing out of the ordinary.
tonight we have a cool opportunity to do a FHE with the ward. We are
going to be speaking about the last few significant events of Jesus
Christ namely: The Last Supper, His sufferings in the Garden, The
Crucifixion, & His Resurrection. We are excited and hope lot's of
people come. But that's it for this email. Love you all and hope you
have a great week!

Elder Baer