Slushmageddon

Hello all,

 

Call it what you will. It snowed this week - hard. And of course, being Seattle, no one is prepared for it. So that made this an interesting week.

 

By the time Tuesday night rolled around most of the snow had melted, making the streets icy and very slippery. And we thought it wouldn't be snowing much more. But waking up Wednesday morning brought us more snow and ice, making the streets slushy and slippery. The next days brought freezing rain, which covered everything. Friday finally brought us warmer weather, which has now all but melted the snow.

On top of that, I went on exchange with Elder Elison Tuesday afternoon, which ended up lasting until Friday evening because the mission had us park the cars and loss of power in the Fairwood area, where he serves. It was actually quite fun, although by the end of it he was glad to go back to his area.

 

Because of the storms, people were home nearly every day. We were able to find a few potential new investigators, including a woman that has seen problems in the "American Church," including people not practicing what they preach and how church's now are kind of like businesses. So we taught her about the Restoration and now she wants to learn more.

 

I also had a neat experience. We were at an apartment complex visiting a less-active member. After our lesson I thought we should go visit a potential investigator that we found months ago. We asked her if she had looked at any of the information we had given her and she said that she visited mormon.org and thought it was a good site. So we asked her if she would be interested in learning more. At first she wasn't that interested because she told us that she was taking care of her problems by talking to a catholic priest. So we asked her if she had ever read the Book of Mormon. She said that she hadn't so we gave her a copy and explained it to her. She opened up a little bit and asked if there were any parts of it that she could read that would help her family grow closer together. So I thought for a minute and remembered some chapters in Mosiah. I have learned that when the spirit speaks you shouldn't question it, even if it seems strange sometimes. So I gave her some chapters to read. When I got home later that day I looked up the chapter on the Book of Mormon in PMG. There is a section about how the book answers questions of the soul. Under the question about helping families grow closer together those very chapters I told her to read were listed. The spirit truly does speak to us.

 

Other than that, our week was kind of slow. Many of the people we are teaching aren't committed to doing anything we ask them to do. But we'll keep looking because I know that the Church is true!

 

~Elder Fetzer