And first of all...Happy Birthday to the best mom in the world! This is a day late because of transfers, but if there weren't transfers i would have said happy birthday on time! Hope your day was great mommy:)
So my week this week was pretty dang good again. Except i randomly came down with a cold for a couple days which was really weird.
But this week we did member visits and taught investigators
as usual. So those two investigators we inherited from the Ramamurthy
Nagar elders names are Raju and Yogita. So we planned to go and visit
them and meet them and teach them. So we decided to ask Cedrick if he
could go with us so he took us along with a member named Arun in his car.
Those are the car pictures i uploaded. So we traveled and traveled and
traveled and these people live clear out of our way haha. It took us two
hours to get there and the place isn't even in Bangalore. It is in a town
called Nelamangala. But apparently it is still in our area. So we
got there and they are soooo good. They are very interested and were very
receptive and willing to learn. They only have one problem....Getting to
church every sunday. So they told us they will come twice a month. First
and last sunday of every month. Which is kind of a bummer because in
order to be baptized, investigators have to attend three sacrament meetings in
a row. So we will probably talk to President Berrett about this one and
see if we can make an exception because they live so far away from the
church. But it was a good time and we taught them about the Book of
Mormon and challenged them to read it so this week we will see if followed
through with their commitment. And Cedrick really opened up to us.
Cedrick has always kind of been a quiet guy but with us this day, he really
opened up and said he is always free so to call him and let him know when he
can come with us. So we took him a few times out this week and he is so
awesome and has such a strong testimony and we are so glad that he opened up to
us. We also taught his friend Stephen again this week and Stephen is i
think making very slow but very sure progress.
We saw Sister Amudha and her daughter Jaromia last Monday
and Jaromia had her baby so Vincent David is now a grandpa. The baby is
so dang cute so i uploaded some pics and thought mom would love newborn baby
pics:) We are going to reinvite sister Amudha to be baptized this week to
see if she is still willing and ready. November 1 was a member named Sister Barathi's birthday and
they are such a nice family to us so they invited us over to celebrate her
birthday so that is whose b-day it is in the pictures.
On Sunday we had a really productive day. So after
church we asked Cedrick if he could come with us to Kothanur and he said yes
and we also brought another African named Frank (from Ivory Coast) with
us. We went and taught Logo and he is really good and wants to come to
church but his brother Yona hasn't been waking up to come to church so Logo
hasn't been able to come with is a bummer. But then we taught Grace and
Nique (Pictured with Elder Bunga and I). We taught them about prophets
and had a really good discussion. Toward the end it kind of turned into a
bible bash because Frank (who is a return missionary of two years) was pulling
out scriptures left and right and Grace and Nique were having a hard time
accepting them even though they were in the bible. But nevertheless, the
discussion was still pretty good and they were willing to let us come teach
them again so i guess that is good. Then we went and taught Simmy and
John and they have still been busy with exams so they haven't started reading
the BoM yet, but they promised us that they will start on Thursday after exams
and then that they would come to church on Sunday.
So we have really been gaining the trust of the members and
really trying to become close with them so they are more willing to help us so
that has been good. The Pidugu's are such a great family and they are so
nice to us and feed us every once in a while which is nice;) We went last
night to brother Vasanth's house for family home evening (pictured). It
was a really good family home evening. Our Branch President got an
assignment in Chennai for his job so it is a bummer that he can only come to
church twice a month so we are wondering if we will get a new Branch Presidency
soon.
So a good week for us and on to transfer news: so Elder
Bunga and i will be together for at least another 6 weeks! We are very excited
about that and really hoping we can get a baptism before our companionship
ends. The assistants said that they are keeping us together because we
are doing so well together. So that is really good. The picture
with all the missionaries is our district. It was our last meeting with
Elder Kesterson as our District Leader because he is going home on
Thursday. The elders are Martinez, and Mulampaka.
I'm glad you guys had a great week as well. Answers: Highlight of the week was probably not getting a
transfer call and finding out Elder Bunga and I are still a team because we are
doing so well. Lowlight: probably getting a cold or having zero
investigators at church. New about the culture is that it is bad to yawn at
someones house or while talking to them because that means you think they are
boring. Really surprising was not getting a transfer call because it
isn't that common that comps stay together for longer than three months
especially comps that are in the training program. Oh and no i didn't get
grandpa's letter...
Dad: OkC will really have a hard time without KD and
Westbrook....NFL seems weird this year though...Cowboys, cardinals lions all
doing good...weird. Sounds like Kole is having quite the year! tell him i
say "Atta boi" The college football top ten is weird too!
Mississippit St.?! Mississippi?! TCU?! what the heck is going on?! haha.
Thanks for the great SC update. It was awesome. So it is also
beginning to cool down a bit here but by cool down i mean to 70s and 80s
haha. Bunga thinks it is cold but i think it is perfect haha.
Thanks for the reminder about my call. I read it a few times since i have
been out but probably could read it more. So yes i am starting to gain
back some of my weight. And getting a little bit of a rice belly at times
haha. Don't get too trunky Dad;) It's okay to get a little trunky but
pretend you still have 21 months left like me haha. You're awesome pops
and a great example to me. Thanks for words of advice.
So scripture of the week: Alma 26:11-12, Alma 37:46 Well I love you all and hope you all have a wonderful week!
Thanks for you love support and prayers.
Love,Elder Ball
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