It's great that the missionaries are so loved!!
It has been another eventful week in Chesterfield. We had Zone conference this past Wed. It was really good and uplifting, like always. The transfer theme is "getting back to basics" and so all our trainings had something to do with that. We've been doing a lot of tracting this week. Almost all day every day. We're trying to find some new investigators. We were tracting one day and everything was going pretty good. Everyone was polite and rejected us nicely. We thought that it was too good to be true not to have any rude people on a street, then we came to this one house. It started off kind, but quickly went into bashing. Voices were harsh and the spirit quickly left. It took us a while to get it back but we're glad that we did. We came to our last house of the evening and knocked (we hate tracting at night because people are always asleep, but we do). We see this guy get up without his shirt and we just look at each other thinking "oh great." Turns out that he let us in to teach him a first lesson. Then he unexpectedly called his two kids in and started telling them how good we were to do what we do. Needless to say that we were both really embarrassed but it felt good to be praised a little bit. some how it was mentioned that his little daughter was learning the piano and he tried to get her to play, of course she wouldn't, so I offered to play. I played "We thank thee oh God for a Prophet" he really enjoyed it. We're going to go back tomorrow and he said that he'd feed us dinner, so we'll see what comes out of this.
Then on Thursday we taught one of our investigators, Mae, some of the commandments; obedience, pray often, study scriptures, and follow the prophet. The cool thing was though that we were teaching in Bishop Blairs house and Sis Blair is the granddaughter of Pres. Hinckley. It was an intense follow the prophet lesson.
On friday we tracted some section 9 housing. It was really fun. We met all kinds of people. Elder Nelson was a spanish missionary when he first came out, and so we were able to teach all the hispanics that we ran into. We also met an Egyptian Muslim that wanted a BoM in Arabic so he could read it. We also ran into a bunch of Hindu's. It is just a really diverse area out here. There is also a large Jewish population. It was really fun tracting that day though.
On Sat. it was pouring down rain. We were drenched from head to foot, and we were tracting. The only person that let us teach them didn't have a covering over their door so we just taught in the rain. Despite the rain, it was really fun, because who else would go door to door in the rain? no one.
Sunday was kind of disappointing but really awesome at the same time. Only two investigators came to any of our wards. But we are teaching this guy in the singles branch and he is really solid. We started the plan of salvation, then the branch had a bbq yesterday so afterwards we met at the church and finished the plan. He said that things just started to click. he could easily get baptized this transfer (only 3 weeks left). Then, on sunday evening there was a fireside for a RM. She just finished serving in Boston. It is always fun to go to missionaries homecomings. They have great stories and get us pumped for our own work. After it was over we pulled one of the recent converts aside and started teaching him the new member lessons, the restoration. It was really good and the Spirit was already there because of the fireside.
Yesterday. it started off really good. I wasn't tired and had a really good personal study. As we were finishing up our comp. study we got a phone call from Mae. She said that her mom wont let her take the lessons any more!! We were devastated. that's been the 3rd one whose parents wont let them learn. We'll keep working on her and her mom through the members though. So, we were a little down that morning. Then we came to the library to email, not thinking that it would be closed for the holiday, only to find it empty. then in the evening we had our really good appointment with Chris (the guy in the singles branch). Once again, before our greatest joys there is always deep sorrow. I've found that out alot since I've been out.
Anyway, that's how my week has been. Oh yeah. i found out from Elder Reese that Denise has dropped them and has stopped coming to church.
Mom-Yes i do know Elder Hinckley. he's in my zone. we talk when we see each other. We eat normal things but its all been really good. I haven't had anything that I haven't had multiple helpings. My pants are fine thank you very much :) My weight has been all over the place. I lost ten pounds in St. Peters but have put it all back on plus 5 or so pounds since I've been out here (hopefully not all fat either). We get 1000 miles a month on the car, which is fine. We were under last month and are doing really good so far this month. We get about 35 ish a day and we rarely use over 30. Yeah we listen to music/conference cd's/instumental.
Dad-I've read through all the family history stuff that you sent me with. Could you send a pedigree chart going back a ways? and maybe some more stories and things, its nice to read. interesting that the Major came to St. Louis a few times.
Josh-sounds like you've got a full schedule. Keep up in your homework and LEARN A LANGUAGE!! It will help you more than you know later on. I wish I would have worked harder at spanish. And of course you're in wind symphony. All you have to do now is make sure you don't make me look bad :)
Keep reading the scriptures/PMG and praying daily. its those small and simple things that keep you strong.
Love,
Elder Egan
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