April
6, 2015
Dear
Friends and Family,
Happy Easter! And
happy Conference! I hope you were all able to listen to general conference and
learn something new from it :)
This week was really
cool in some aspects! There is a 22 year old member here named Israel. Today he
is swearing into the army. He's been meeting with the missionaries for a couple
of months, but recently we have gotten really close and become really good
friends. He has decided that he wants to get close to God now, so that he will
be able to draw strength from him when he needs it, in the military. To help
him get closer to God, he decided that he would take turns coming out with us
and the English Elders. When I say come out with us, I mean spend the whole
entire day teaching and finding with us. On Wednesday and Thursday he spent
from 10:00 am until 10:00 pm with me and my companion! We taught some
awesome lessons and had some great conversations with Israel! He's so
awesome!
One of the more
depressing things that has happened to me so far on my mission, also happened
this week. For the past couple of months, we've really only had one
investigator. Alan has met with us twice a week, and also come to church, every
week since I got here, early February. For some reason that we don't know, he
hasn't been to church for 2 weeks in a row, and he cancelled both lessons with
us this week. He said that he "would call us when he has time to
meet." It's really sad to see such a strong and solid man (who has become
much more of a friend than an investigator), waver on his path the Christ. We
are hoping and praying that we don't lose him completely, and that we can get
back into contact with him.
Other than Alan, the
work here is dead. Rumors have it that our area and the sister's areas will be
combined in a couple of weeks. But those are just rumors.
Easter for us here was
kind of sad, haha. For some reason, people haven't been signing up for dinners
lately, so we've had to make our own food all this last week, haha. I sound
spoiled complaining about that, but life is tough with no dinner ;). Easter was
no different, so when dinner rolled around yesterday, we were left to rummaging
through our cupboards and freezer for food. We ended up eating quesadillas and
some really old frozen chicken that we found in the freezer. It was hands down
the most depressing "feast" of my life. But don't worry about us,
because today we are going shopping for some real food ;)
I hope you all enjoyed
Easter! Have a good week!
Love,
Elder Butterfield
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