Tuesday Elder Cooley wasn't feeling well so Elder Jones and I split going into his area.
Wednesday we taught a referral from a member who seems willing to learn about the gospel. President Judd also admonished us to keep contacting in the evening to locate those who are prepared to hear our message. Through this we met a man named Tony who had a roommate at college who attended the church. We were surprised with how smart he was and he later showed his pure water manufacturing machines. It was an interesting thing to see and he said that it cost $20,000 to set up.
For Thursday I decided that I want to eliminate sarcasm from my humor and while I felt I did better with it this past week, I saw that I had a lot more work to do with this on Sunday and I really want to do a better job this week. We went out with the member Eric Toffa and we taught his inactive brother Sammy. Sammy is 19 and basically his entire family stopped coming to church because he took offense at a member. We tried to invite the spirit, but it was clear that he just wanted to talk about his anger. I know that the person he has the offense with has long forgotten the incident, but Sammy and his family go everyday with their hate eating them up. I thought of Alma 24:30 where the people who fall away are filled with unhappiness.
We taught Kwame on Friday. Kwame is an uncle of a member and it is great to see how he is prepared to listen and follow the message.
Saturday Elder Cooley and I took our recent converts along with some ward leaders and the youth of the ward to the temple to do proxy baptisms. It was a good experience to get them there and I ran into a man I baptized with Elder Jones who was at the temple to receive his endowments. It was a good experience to run into him. At the temple we also joined a group that traveled four hours to come. After the temple we went back to the church and we had a ward activity-goat soup. The soup was eaten with fufu or ebba. We had our two investigators, Morris and Kwame, there and it was good to see them interact with everyone.
Sunday the Ahajies invited us over to watch the Sunday Morning of conference online at their home. Elder Ahajie was released from his calling as an area seventy so we should see him more at church. I related Elder Uchtdorf's challenge to not say anything if it isn't nice to my endeavor to eliminate my sarcasm for it will help my relationships with others. From Elder Nelson I liked his explanation on how the big bang doesn't make sense because it isn't logical that a printing press explodes and then produces a dictionary. Elder Rasband said something which I liked too on how we should good for service opportunities without being asked because like he said "the offer to help is really no help at all". For the rest of conference we will have to wait to watch two sessions recorded and sent to the church here to be watched next month.
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