Well this week was a pretty decent week. I wouldn't
say it was a great week because there is still so much telugu. However,
that aspect did improve. So on wednesday we had interviews with mission
president and i just talked to him and told him about my frustration with so
much telugu and he reemphasized that we should only be teaching in english
unless there is a part-member family that needs to be taught in telugu.
He did say however, that we should not do those too often because if my
companion gets transferred and i get a non-telugu speaker next then we won't
have anyone to teach so he gave me a couple suggestions on how to improve our
pool of english speakers. And that same day when we went out we found a
couple english speakers that are now potential investigators.
This week we did teach two guys that speak some
english. One named Gowtham and other named Chinna Babu (which means small
boy in Telugu haha). They are both college aged and were very interested
in our message and we have another appointment with them on Tuesday.
Hopefully we can also continue to find more english speakers this week.
This week we also taught a sister named Vimala and she is
very interested in our message. Whenever we teach her and then she says
the closing prayer, my comp tells me after that she was saying how grateful she
is to have us share this with her and that she loves what we share and she has
never heard anything like this before. We committed her to be baptized
but she didn't show up to church this week because she had some family function
which was very unfortunate for us. Also we were very disappointed when
Johnson Raj and Suresh didnt come either. Johnson Raj is really doing
well and learning and doing well with his word of wisdom problem. Just
didn't come to church...But suresh on the other hand, isn't actually
progressing that well.
We ended up dropping joshua and shirley because they aren't
progressing because of their mother. If they didn't have the mother
interfering, they would be baptized for sure. So i think with them we
will just give them some space for a while and try again later.
Uplifting this week was probably my first lesson i taught in
english without it being translated in Rajahmundry. My first one
here. That was pretty great. Nothing new to eat. Just still
really good food. They don't really eat anything weird. And mango
season is coming up soon so i am excited for that. Speaking of
seasons...it is so dang hot and humid here. I feel like i am going to die
here because it is so hot and humid. As soon as you step outside there is
sweat dribbling down my face! So dang hot here...that will be very hard for me
also. I haven't really found new favorite people here because most people
just speak telugu...so i will try and find some haha. On Pdays we
normally go out to eat and then go play volleyball or basketball on the court
right behind our apartment. I could be playing every morning but the ball
we have gets flat in one day so it is only good for one day without having to
pump it up every single day. So i might buy a new ball. I don't
play piano because they have someone who does. They play so terribly and
wrong, and the British elder in my apartment teaches sometimes. I gave a
talk yesterday in sacrament meeting because two of the assigned speakers didn't
show up to church (a very usual thing to happen).
So anyways, very surprising sports update Pa!!! Oh my.
So many trades. Man state is coming up as well!! Make sure to watch a lot
of games for me:) So this week was pretty good for me. Still trying to
adjust to the telugu and heat. But still life is always good as a
missionary!
Scriptures: 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John. I know it is a lot and long but i didn't give any last two weeks and these are worth it:) Well Dad have a great birthday and family, have a great week! Love you all!
Love,
Elder Ballu
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