Hey hey hey

June 12, 2016

First thing is first. Shout out to Lizzy Mitchell from my home ward

giving her farewell this next week! Kill it and enjoy the MTC!

I don't know how to describe this week, but we had a zone conference

where the mission president, his wife, and his two assistants gave

workshops to us. I learned a lot and am pumped to go out and apply

what I learned.

I'm way low on time right now, but want to write about our

investigator tawaraya San. He's had a baptismal date 2 or 3 times now,

but because of his job on Sundays, he can't come to Church and just

has a low desire to come unto Christ. I've experience this situation

twice on my mission now and both times we try many things.

Try to get them to quit or talk to their boss

Pray for guidance

Share with the investigator 1nephi3:7 and promise them if they commit

to come God will make things work out

Etc.....

The first time I experienced this situation with an investigator not

being able to come to church, nothing  really came from what we tried.

Who knows why? Maybe it wasn't the Lord's timing, but that is okay.

This time we shared that scripture and promised tawaraya San that God

will help him if he shows faith.

Then.... He got way sick! We tried to meet him and he wouldn't answer

our calls, reply to our texts, if we want to his house he would open

the door and say "not today, go away" and close the door. We got

worried and honestly, we haven't met with him for over 55 days now.

But....He recovered (still a bit sick, but)... He came to church

yesterday and explained to me that he got a promotion in his job. Not

only will he be getting more money, but that adjusted his schedule

from 2 days off a week to 3 days off a week. Can anyone guess what the

third day he just got off is? Yep, that's right! It's Sunday! He

showed up and surprised both me and my companion and now I really

really really think he has the possibility of being baptized.

He does have some other problems that might be a process to help fix,

but besides that his desire is strong and he came to church by

himself! I was so pumped. We get transfer calls next Tuesday and one

of us is leaving for sure, and before I was more leaning to wanting to

transfer, but now that we have 1 investigator progressing I would be

stoked to get that call that I'm staying. Awesome experience!

Testimony builder for sure!

Hope everyone has a great week. Sorry my thoughts are all over the

place. Typing way faster than my head can think.

Love you

敬具 (sincerely yours)

ー  シャイト長老 (Elder Scheidt)

[Our zone!]

[This meal with members from last week]