Ripped pants won't keep me from the work!!

Dear family and friends,

I am doing great! Everything is going better now. Ignacio didn't get baptized this last week. We haven't been able to meet with him so its been tough on us this last week. However, we have a lot of stuff set up for this week so it is looking good! Hopefully we can find Ignacio at home. He has been coming home late like 11 p.m. which is too late for missionaries and been leaving at 6:40 a.m. which is 10 minutes after we get up. We might wake up early one of these days to try and talk to him to see what's up.

Two missionaries this past week had their bikes locked up with their U-locks and somebody came and cut the locks and stole the bikes! I fell again and ripped my pants but at least the only thing I did this time was rip my pants! I need to get to the goodwill store so that I can buy some new pants since I have ripped like 3 pair from all my falls!

Let's see honestly this last week was really weird. Like nobody was home. We didn't teach much and we didn't really find because we have been trying so hard to teach Ignacio and our other investigators aren't progressing. We are trying really hard to get the members to invite their friends to go to the taco night. So hopefully things will all work out and the work will progress along! I'm not sad or discouraged I just don't like weeks like this. I know that sometimes we have less success when we need to learn something so I am trying to figure out what the Lord is trying to teach me!

One of the things that I have learned this week is that in missionary work we can't just spend all of our time with people who won't progress or grow in the gospel. We have to be constantly sifting the wheat from the tares and helping them progress as we progress. We can only help somebody be as converted to the gospel as we are. Because as we know conversion is a process and not an event. We are constantly trying to become like our Savior.

This week I want you to read the article in the February Ensign about the hesitant missionary. Then I would invite all of  you to share the gospel with somebody. I promise you that if you do you will be happier, you will receive the same joy that I feel each and every day and you will really learn the love that our Father in Heaven has for us!



Have a great week everyone and pray for missionary experiences!

Love, Elder Reisner