A Priesthood Blessing

Well nothing too big happened this week. We've been running into a lot of inactives and less actives lately. It's kind of depressing how many of them there are. Now I have somewhat of an idea of what Mormon was saying in Mormon 6:17-the end.

Well we have one more person on date. She's being baptized this Sunday. The mom runs a foster care home and they adopted her, and she wanted to be baptized so the parents wanted her to take lessons first. It's interesting because we teach her in English and Spanish. The mom is from Puerto Rico, and her Uncle designed the Conquistador. I thought that was pretty cool. Speaking of Puerto Rico, a lot of people here think I'm from Puerto Rico or have Latino blood in me. Puerto Rico and Brazil are the top guesses of where I'm from. Anyway, we have like 4 more people on date in September. So we're finding a way to progress, even though it gets real hard sometimes. Yesterday I had exchanges with the Zone Leaders. Our appointments fell through but we found 3 potential investigators who seemed pretty interested in the gospel. We found a english speaking kid named Seth, and he's a really cool kid. He's 18 and wants to join the church. He's been taking lessons from the South missionaries, but we're meeting with him now too. So that he can talk to us whenever and it's easier for him to meet with us.

Saturday we had New Missionary Training and we went to downtown Salt Lake and had a street contacting competition. My companion was Elder Orton. He's from Orlando. It was nice working with him. We got a long well and our assigned area was 100 s., Which is basically the Gateway Mall area. We met some interesting people there. One of them was an Anti, who told us we sinned every week by taking the sacrament because we say we'll always remember him. We were talking with a recent RM when this anti came up to us and so they started going at it while me and Elder Orton were standing there. But the RM said he repents everynight. And the anti said that if he truely repented he'd be perfect in 10 days because he would forsake the sin. It was pretty entertaining to watch.

Well, I think the highlight of my week came yesterday. We were teaching a part member family. The wife is a member and the husband isn't. They're an older couple, and he's willing to listen and talk to the missionaries but wants to keep his religion. While we were talking to them, we found out that he hadn't had a job for a couple of months. And so we were talking and started talking about how we can give blessings. So Elder Pearl said that we could come by later with the Bishop and give him a blessing of comfort. But I felt like we needed to give it then. And the thoughts came to me that I didn't have to worry about the language, and that I'd be able to say everything that I needed. And that everything would be provided to me. So I offered to give one right then. So we told him it was based on his faith, and then I gave him a blessing of comfort in Spanish. It was a good experience. I think that's about all I have for this week.