Familia,

This week was crazy. We knew that General Conference was coming so we spent all week gearing up for it. We made invitations and hit the streets. In Thursday, Friday, and Saturday alone we contacted more than 100 people. The instructions we recieved were that if we didnt have a family in the conference we needed to search until we did. We worked like crazy and committed all of the families we are teaching to go to the conference. Every single one fell through. The first conference passed and we spent all of it in the streets contacting every family we could see, but in the end...nothing. The second conference rolled around and the same thing happened. Sunday morning....the same. By this point we had pretty much run out of ideas and the final session was fast approaching. Our positive families told us straight up that they didnt want anything to do with the church, that was probably the hardest part of all. We sat down in a park and searched our agendas for anything that might help us, references that we had contacted...etc. I felt that we should pass by for a family. They had never given us any indication that they wanted anything to do with the church but we were always walking by their house we figured we would pass by. We did and at first they gave us excuses just like everyone else, but in an instant something changed. Our food appointment had taken our lunches to the church for conference adn we told them that we had food ready for them :) they accepted adn the next thing we knew we were in the church for the final session. I dont think I have ever worked harder for anything in my life than that 1 family in the church, and really I dont know what was the difference between all the others adn them, but I know that the Lord was blessing us for our labors. It was probably the biggest miracle I have seen in my mission.

 

As for our other families. All of them pretty much fell through this week and three of them had problems with the police. Yeah this week was pretty eventful, but I feel like we grew so much and we did everything that we possibly could. My shoes are pretty much destroyed...jejeje. But it made listening that one session of conference so much more meaningful than ever before. My testimony of prophets and of the truthfulness of the church was really strengthened. Well family, thats all for this week, but I hope that all is well with you all. I love you all. As always you are in my prayers.

 

hna Manning