OCT_15_18_GROUP_PITT_Week of October 15, 2018
Hey Everybody!
Fall has OFFICIALLY come here in Pittsburgh. The leaves are changing, it's beginning to cool down. I had to break out the old winter coat earlier this week. I absolutely LOVE the winter here in Pittsburgh. Sure, it's cold. Sure, the humidity eats at your bones. Sure, your face feels like it's about to fall off.
I'm getting to it, I promise.
BUT. It's just SO beautiful. And I just feel so much more energized for some reason! There's just something about the cold that makes me want to go out and talk to people about the gospel. I'm weird, I know.
Elder Toomer and I are excited for another transfer together. We decided that we are going to try and knock 1000 doors in the next 6 weeks. There's a common phrase here in the mission, that for every 1000 doors you knock, you get a baptism. We're going to put that to the test.
I've already started to develop calluses on my knuckles from all of the knocking! Wish us luck!
Everything is going well with our Haitian investigator, Rose. She came to church for the third time in a row this week! Her English is really not great at all. She can have a very basic conversation, but that's about it. But that makes the fact that she's coming to church so regularly all the more impressive! The meetings are 100 percent in English, and she can probably only understand like 5 percent of it. And yet she still comes, because she likes the feeling she gets there and knows she needs to be there. As we were teaching her this past week, she told us that she knows this is the church for her. And she knows it because she had a vision in which she saw herself dressed in white, walking into our church building.
I didn't really know what to say. But I'm not about to get in the way of her vision. It sounds like the Lord is definitely involved in her conversion.
Here's a few other highlights from the week:
- We helped a less active woman build a stone fence for her garden. Toward the end, one of us asked if we could use the bathroom. She told us she didn't have any running water, and directed us to a bucket with a roll of toilet paper hanging on a tree beside it. Uh no. I'll pass.
- The other missionaries in our ward were responsible for teaching GOSPEL principles class at church yesterday. We still had 10 minutes left by the end of the lesson, so Elder Wang panicked and just had us all sing some hymns til the end. In pretty sure Rose thought we were a bunch of weirdos.
- We were knocking doors last night and someone answered the door and told us it wasn't a good time, because she was giving her cat a flea bath.
Anyways. I love you all! Until next week!
Elder Gonzales
Fall has OFFICIALLY come here in Pittsburgh. The leaves are changing, it's beginning to cool down. I had to break out the old winter coat earlier this week. I absolutely LOVE the winter here in Pittsburgh. Sure, it's cold. Sure, the humidity eats at your bones. Sure, your face feels like it's about to fall off.
I'm getting to it, I promise.
BUT. It's just SO beautiful. And I just feel so much more energized for some reason! There's just something about the cold that makes me want to go out and talk to people about the gospel. I'm weird, I know.
Elder Toomer and I are excited for another transfer together. We decided that we are going to try and knock 1000 doors in the next 6 weeks. There's a common phrase here in the mission, that for every 1000 doors you knock, you get a baptism. We're going to put that to the test.
Everything is going well with our Haitian investigator, Rose. She came to church for the third time in a row this week! Her English is really not great at all. She can have a very basic conversation, but that's about it. But that makes the fact that she's coming to church so regularly all the more impressive! The meetings are 100 percent in English, and she can probably only understand like 5 percent of it. And yet she still comes, because she likes the feeling she gets there and knows she needs to be there. As we were teaching her this past week, she told us that she knows this is the church for her. And she knows it because she had a vision in which she saw herself dressed in white, walking into our church building.
I didn't really know what to say. But I'm not about to get in the way of her vision. It sounds like the Lord is definitely involved in her conversion.
Here's a few other highlights from the week:
- We helped a less active woman build a stone fence for her garden. Toward the end, one of us asked if we could use the bathroom. She told us she didn't have any running water, and directed us to a bucket with a roll of toilet paper hanging on a tree beside it. Uh no. I'll pass.
- The other missionaries in our ward were responsible for teaching GOSPEL principles class at church yesterday. We still had 10 minutes left by the end of the lesson, so Elder Wang panicked and just had us all sing some hymns til the end. In pretty sure Rose thought we were a bunch of weirdos.
- We were knocking doors last night and someone answered the door and told us it wasn't a good time, because she was giving her cat a flea bath.
Anyways. I love you all! Until next week!
Elder Gonzales
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