My dear friends!
Here is my last e-mail to you as a 20-year-old. This past year has been so much fun and I`ve made so many experiences that have changed my life and that were very crucial to my development as a person. Thanks to all of you who have had a part in this, be it big or small :)
Oh, there is no birthday blues in my work. It`s been a good week overall, getting better as time went on. We`ve had some decent teaching opportunities so that was great.
First of all, G____`s baptism will be postponed. We just can`t teach him everything we need to by the 7th, and interview him. So unless there are any major roadblocks coming up, it will be the 14th now. Which is great too! :) And not far away at all. We taught him twice this week, first the Gospel of Jesus Christ and then the first half of the commandments (including the Law of Chastity and the Word of Wisdom). It went really well both times. The actual funny part came to be when we decided on how we`d "sell" the postponed baptismal date to him. We decided to do what all desperate Missionaries would do. We first prayed, and then acted on the answer we got...and bought him cake! :) So the plan was to just give him the cake as we confronted him with the bad news, but Sunday morning as we left for Church where we`d have the lesson, a much better thought entered into my mind: Use the cake for an object lesson on the commandments! And I did. It worked great in my head but the execution was a little crappy. G_____ didn`t mind but I think he didn`t understand it too well either, which I honestly don`t blame him for. I told him something along the lines of, "Here`s a cake for you! You can eat it eventually, but we`d encourage you to do it at home after Church and not right now. If you imagined this cake to be your romantic feelings and desires and you eat (or use) them too early, you wouldn`t have them anymore at the proper time, which would be with your spouse..." Bam! Law of Chastity. Right there. Elders from "The District", here`s how you teach it. This is an inside joke and if you`ve not been a Missionary recently you most likely won`t get it. By the way, we resolved all misunderstandings after and taught him the actual Law of Chastity, eventually.
We also found some great people this week but I will report more on them when we actually advance to teaching, because my time is a little short. But I`m actually really pumped for the last couple weeks of this transfer, because they`ll be great! We`ll be obedient. We`ll talk with everyone. We`ll baptize (probably FOR REAL). :)
Random AGSM Moment: We went home teaching with our branch mission leader on Wednesday and since he`s a salesman, he gave us some of the Switzerland hats (for the World Cup) he`s selling to people. But Elder Marshall and I got them for FREE :) We wear them all the time now, and pictures are definitely forthcoming.
Much love! Have a marvelous week! :)
Elder Friedmann
(Title explanation, freely from our Mission Vision Card which we recite daily: "To reach our goals this transfer, we will become disciples of Christ by helping our investigators step into the water, like Peter did.")
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