I always get confused on what week it is. I cant ever remember which one I left off on. Oh well, Im gonna guess 26. Doesnt make too much of a difference if its 25 or 26 right? Anyways.. wow almost March already! I cant believe we're starting the final week in February right now. Unreal. Also its the second to last week of this transfer already. So that is.. pretty crazy.
This past week was ok. Not a whole lot happened as far as the work goes, we're still essentially at a stand still. None of our investigators want to progress as much as we try to get them too. So that is kind of depressing. We havent been fortunate enough to find any new ones yet either. So this area is pretty tough. And of course the whole biking thing is really hard too. That hill is killer... every day I dread having to go up and down that hill all day. We're hoping they have some mercy and give us a car or something next transfer cause they clearly dont care too much to move us any closer to our area, so we're stuck having to bike really far just to get there every day. Sigh.. so its pretty rough.. rough life. Sorry we try not to complain but.. cant help it.
We did however have a really good zone conference on Thursday, it was a mission tour with Elder Spencer Jones of the Seventy. It was amazing, he spoke with such power and conviction.. loved it. He mainly focused on talking about making sure we are out there actively finding and working. He related it to "having our line in the water" like fishing. We can be out of the house all day but if our line isnt in the water we arent really fishing. Then on extending commitments and things, and it was just incredible. He really broke down how to commit someone to certain things and how to ask effective questions and stuff. It really helped a lot.
So that was a big boost. But Im still kinda having a hard time right now. I havent been getting any good sleep in a while now, so Im always way exhausted all day. It makes biking really brutal. Half of the reason is cause my companion, Elder Mabeza, is a snorer. Most of you know how light of a sleeper I am.. which really sucks.. so I went and got some earplugs but they really dont help at all. I can still hear him pretty much perfectly. Along with that I just cant get tired. I am just restless all the time and I toss and turn all night. Last night I was still wide awake when I turned over to look at the clock to see what time it was cause I still hadnt fallen asleep and it was like 2 o clock. Sigh.. its been really annoying. So hopefully some things change real soon.
Elder Mabeza and I are still getting along really great though, so Im happy with the companionship, so it has nothing to do with that. Hes a good guy. He does have some problems with English though, I dont know he talks a lot when we are teaching or contacting and just some of the things he says kinda dont make sense. Like people will tell him something, I dont know about how they are busy at a certain time or working on a certain day then he'll ask a question that what said person just related would answer. So its kinda annoying and I have to take charge a lot of the time. Im trying to help him out with that cause I dont think he understands that he does a lot of things like that. But its fun overall.
Well thats about all for now, hope you guys all have a good week.. and hopefully things pick up here too!!
Love
Elder Lowder
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