I sincerely hope that all of you had a great Easter Sunday! My Easter went pretty well. We had six investigators at church again, so that's awesome. Herman got confirmed a member of the church during sacrament meeting. Then we had a wonderful dinner at a members house. Easter went great. This week for the most part went a bit slow. We did not teach as many people that we had hoped for, but we currently have four people on date, for later in the month of April. The biggest problem that we have is that two of them are not married. See, that is a problem! Other then that they are all progressing and doing great! We did quite a bit of unsuspecting service for people. We moved a piano for someone in the [Name Withheld] 1st ward, and packed up everything in a house and got it ready to be moved to another house. It was a pretty good week, except for one of our investigators being attacked and almost killed yesterday. After it happened she called us before she called her boyfriend. She was crying and in disarray. We calmed her down and told her to talk to her boyfriend. After that she went to the er and had the police come. It was a big deal. We plan to see her today. That was the extent of my week.
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He's hitting his stride...actual investigators instead of harassing the inactives.
Good luck to those folks thinking of joining. They will figure it out eventually. And, anyone named Herman deserves a break...I hope the church is good for/to him.
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Youre attacked and almost killed...??? and you call the missionaries first before police and ER? what kind of Olive oil are they selling there?
" It was a pretty good week, except for one of our investigators being attacked and almost killed yesterday. After it happened she called us before she called her boyfriend. She was crying and in disarray. We calmed her down and told her to talk to her boyfriend. After that she went to the er and had the police come.
It sounds like you have 18-19 year old sheltered young man seeing physical abuse for the first time. I notice it was very short letter and more clear than most. I think that it got to him and has him thinking. He doesn't know emotionally how to deal with it yet.
Hopefully he can ask one very important question: "Why isn't the church more involved in caring for people like this?"
No offense, but your nephew kind of sounds like a tool. It's not his fault...I think most Mormon missionaries are tools...but that email was just dripping with smug. If someone calls you saying that they have just been attacked and you are the first person they are calling, the first words out of your mouth had better be "Get to someplace safe and stay there. We are on our way and calling the police from the car." If you start trying to calm them down so that they can call more people and talk to them before getting help, you are part of the problem. I hope he is starting to see that life out here "in the mission field" is the truth - not the Saturday Evening Post BS that the snake oil salesmen in SLC are peddling.
There is hope for your nephew - mentions Easter Sunday -- not one mention of christ! No mention of testimony, no mention of his "love" of the work he is doing.