The heat this week wasn't too bad. We had a storm on the 4th that came out of no where and also caused hail which was pretty fun.
One of the families in the ward took us to Virginia City for a firework show because we had permission from President to stay out past curfew and leave the zone. Virginia City is an old mining town pretty much situated in the top of a couple mountains, it was pretty cool. There were a lot of "interesting" people there but we were not allowed to wear proselyting clothes or name tags so we blended in for the most part. It was kinda weird because we would walk past people and want to talk to them but we couldn't because we would look like a couple weirdos, or at least more so than usual I guess, haha.
This week was a pretty slow one. Other than the 4th, we really didn't do much. On Tuesday and Wednesday we ended up having to go to California for most of the day, one for Zone training and another to go pick of one of out ZL's that stayed back to go on exchanges with the Elders in Susanville so that took up a whole lot of time. Then most of our investigators weren't able to meet with us for one reason or another so we spent a lot of time walking around and talking to people. Since both sets of missionaries are on the street a lot more since we lost our car a lot more people are noticing us which is nice because often times they come up to us and ask us questions.
One of the families we were working with might be going through a divorce which kinda throws things way off. We had primarily been working with the kids and the dad since the mother was already a member. The father used to take lessons from us and things had been going very well for their family, they had even renewed their wedding vows a couple months ago. but all of a sudden he decided to stop because of work and now won't meet with us anymore and then walked out of the family and things just fell apart completely. We are super heartbroken over it but there isn't much we can do except encourage them to start living the gospel. To complicate the matter, there is a legal issue between one of the family members and one of the members of the ward so in order to attend church they have to go to a different ward or move.
We also started to teach a guy named T who the Spanish missionaries tracted into. He is a pretty nice guy, does a lot of service for the homeless community because of his past. The first couple times we met with him, he didn't seem to interested but last night he started to ask a lot of questions so we pretty much went through the whole restoration with him. He said it made a lot of sense and pretty much accepted it right there and also asked where he could get a Book of Mormon because he wanted to read it. Luckily for him, we carry like 5 so it was no problem to get him to commit to read and pray about it. We are pretty excited for him.
We will be baptizing a guy this Saturday named C and we are excited about that. I won't actually be baptizing him but I will be confirming him on Sunday. I probably will not be transferred for at least another month and a half.
I love you guys and miss you.
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