Tuesday
Tuesday
was actually a lot of fun, we had district meeting and the AP's were
there. I really love the AP's and it was a lot of fun meeting everyone
in our zone. It kind of felt like a day off too, which was fun except
for the fact that I don't think I understand anything that they taught
(French is killing me!). I'll get it though, I at least can answer
people when they ask me questions now!
Wednesday
Wednesday
started out pretty bad, it rained all day (and then it rained all day
the next day, and the next, all the way until Sunday where we had a nice
day, but we were inside for most of it). All that happened was that we
got rejected pretty badly. After a little while I just stopped talking
and I let my companion do the talking. He stopped in the Gare for a
couple minutes, turned to me and asked me what he could do because
something was obviously wrong. I just talked about how it was kind of
tough. It makes it harder because my companion had a trainer who told
him exactly what to do and he hated it. He promised himself that he
wouldn't ever be like his trainer, so now he just kind of leaves it up
to the people he trains to figure it out. I don't know if you've ever
been in the situation where you just had to figure it out, but trust me
when I say it's really scary. I just told him that I'm a little new here
and I'll try my best if he gives me a little guidance now and then.
From this point on we started doing A LOT better. Since we decided we
were going to talk to everyone we saw, we walk down the street side by
side and whichever side a person is walking down determines which person
gets to talk to them. It makes it a lot easier than trying to decide
who contacts who, but it's kind of scary because it turns the 1/10
people that I used to contact to 1/2. It's fun though and on Tuesday we met two or three people. We accomplished the great feat of getting two phone numbers! It was awesome.
Thursday
THURSDAY
WE TAUGHT 3 LESSONS! They were the first three lessons of my entire
mission and I don't remember much of them other than the people didn't
seem to be very interested after we taught them with the exception of a
teenage Muslim boy (we didn't know he was Muslim when we contacted him
otherwise we wouldn't have been allowed to contact him) who agreed to
read the Book of Mormon and keep meeting with us if we would read parts
of the Qumran he printed out in English. It was interesting to say the
least and pretty confusing, but we figure if he's going to keep his part
we need to keep ours as well.
Friday/Saturday
Not
going to lie when I say that Friday and Saturday just seemed like a
blur of people being kind of rude and saying no, it was a lot more fun
to go out contacting though and despite getting rejected a hundred
million times, and a lot of tombe-vous, it actually seems like we set up
a solid week next week. We got our first referral from the office and
we're going to see her tomorrow and there's a couple people who
responded to us when we called REALLY OLD investigators (I'm talking
like 5 or 6 years old). I'm pretty excited about next week though! We
have interviews with President, Exchanges with zone leaders, and a very
busy week ahead of us!
Sunday
Even
Sunday was a lot better, I tried to be more friendly to the members and
we asked a couple if we could visit them this week. A random guy showed
up to church and we fixed a rendezvous on Wednesday. It was crazy
because he just showed up and before he left he told us how much sense
we made as a church. Oh yeah, me and Elder Hall taught the lesson too
this week for investigators class(Gospel principles is what we call it
back home i think) and we rocked it! An old lady invited us over to eat on Saturday too, so I'm pretty excited.
OTHER STUFF!!
So,
what do I want to talk about this week? I guess just talking it out.
This week whenever I got frustrated or upset about something I would
just let people know. I know a lot of times people can get annoyed of
you complaining or think that you're sharing too much information, but I
think that's worth getting whatever beef you have off your chest.
Letting something fester just leaves feelings of resentment and anger
and if you don't talk to people about the problems you have with them
with the willingness to compromise on those issues, you're going to blow
up eventually. I feel stressed out all the time here and it's cold and
wet and nobody will talk to us, but this week has been a thousand times
better just because I've spoken my mind. So, my message for this week is
don't bury your problems, just fix them. I know it's not easy, but it's
better to pay the price to fix things when they break then it is to try
to go through life broken.
HAVE AN AWESOME WEEK EVERYBODY, help out your missionaries (Trust me when I say that they need it)
Love,
Elder Michael Beneamato Bruno
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