Anyone Can Do Missionary Work

This week was okay but slow. We were planning an activity for a big
event downtown. On Thanksgiving night there is a big ceremony to kick
off the Christmas season. We had everything set up then out of
nowhere, on Friday, we were told that we couldn't do it after we had
everything okay'd by the city.

Tuesday, we visited with a member we are trying to get back to church.
After that we worked on planning out the Thanksgiving night booth -
that's going to be a lot of work. Then we tried some potentials out
with no success. Dinner was with the Bishop. Then tried a few more
people out, and finally picked up our laundry from the Y's.

Wednesday, we had District Meeting. Afterward, we went to Wendy's for
District Lunch. After that we went and tried to visit a few people and
ended up tracting for a while, we talked to 2 Spanish families which
was pretty cool, I was able to communicate with them well enough! We
talked to about 4 people and 3 said we could come back so that was
good. After dinner we tried to visit a less active member.

Thursday we did studs then weekly planned, SO... MUCH... TIME... IN
THE APARTMENT!!! After that we did Mormon.org time. Then we tried a
few people and finally went to an investigator's house. We talked about
fortifying ourselves in difficult times, and read Alma 48. Then dinner
wth some awesome members. Then we visited with the the Relief Society
President and got some hot cocoa for the Thanksgiving activity....
That we ended up not needing haha.

Friday well, we did studs, then, during lunch, we got a call from the
Bishop telling us that we can't do the activity because someone called
him, he didn't say who, and told him they didn't want it to get
political or religious. Well, we visited with a few people including
two less actives. We visited with the M's, and watched the
Restoration with an investigator. We had dinner at Kehde's BBQ with
brother S from Provo, Utah; he's a cool member. He's from San
Jose, California and he was baptized and then his brother and him
began doing missionary work on their own, from tracting to having
parties at their house that ended in missionary discussion, he's
sweet. When I asked about how to have success in tracting he simply
said, "You've got to mention the Savior in the first few seconds so
that when they close the door, it's not on 'My name is...' But rather
they close the door on Christ, let him take the burden, he can bear
it, you can't."

Saturday we wanted to do service so, we helped a member clean
out an old business building. Then we went and shoveled rock and
helped remove a fence for an investigator. After that we had dinner.
And lastly we helped the ward mission leader move some stuff to his
new trailer.

Honestly last week was rough and this week seemed promising until the
call telling us our plans were canceled, so two
rough weeks in a row - darn. But hey, could be worse! We are going to
keep working hard and doing our best! Well, hope everyone is well and
lively. The work of the Lord is incredible, I've learned that anyone
can do missionary work, it's definitely scary, but the spirit will
take over when it needs to. Take care!

Elder Hinrichsen