I hope all is going well with you in all of your assorted locations and lives! It's been so much fun to have gotten to hear from all of yous in the past couple of weeks! Thanks to the ward members from back home who have been emailing me! It brings a smile to my face to here from all of you! :) Keep up the good work!
Well anywhooser things are going pretty amazing down here in Albuquerque! I can't believe that I have already been here for close to 5 weeks! I guess time flies when you are having fun ;) Hmmm.... what to say next... things are going pretty awesome here in the Los Altos Ward (the name of my new ward)! We had Stake Conference last Sunday, and our first Sacrament meeting in the ward yesterday! What has been really cool about both of those meetings, is that all of the talks in all of the meetings were focused on Missionary work!! It has been so cool to see the leadership in our stake really take a focus on missionary work! I just pray that some of that focus will carry over to the wards!
On a slightly different note, things this past week have been both difficult, but they have also been super rewarding! It has been difficult because as we have tried to contact people, they have either dodged us or just say that they are just not interested and ask us to leave.... :/ hmmm...but its cool! Free Agency right? :) But I don't want to be a negative nelly :p Despite people not wanting to listen, things have also been going really well for all of our investigators, less-active members, and referrals! As far as the investigators, this week we doubled the amount of investigators that we had (from 3 to 6), and the investigators we have had in the past seem more open to truly listening to what we are saying. As far as the less-active members, we had 3 of them come to church this past Sunday which is 3 times as many as usually come, and as far as the referrals go some are actually panning out for us!
Oh and one of less-active members who has been coming to church more and more said something that makes the harder days a little bit easier to bear! He said:
"You know guys, I have a lot of respect for the both of you! I have really appreciated having you come over to my home and bring the Spirit with you. Although you are half of my age, I have a lot of respect for you, because you have changed my life and for that I will be forever grateful! I have a lot of respect for you guys because you have given up two years where you could be doing something that's not so good, and have chose to help other people and I am grateful for that!"
And sorry, I didn't mean for this story to be an ego-trip about my companion and I, but I just wanted to say that I am so grateful to be where I am at! And although sometimes difficult times come, its good to remember that when we think outside of ourselves, things will get better!
---Well anywho it's always sunny in Albuquerque
-Elder Guymon
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