Baptizing monthly

Hola to my family and friends!

I am well as we say in Spanish mas o menos but don't worry I will get better it's been a good and bad week.  Our single brother got baptized!!  It was a really great service!! We also remembered to take some pictures so don't worry. There was another hermano that wanted to be baptized that night as well and asked me if I would baptize him. I was really excited to do it for him but then he didn't show up. I found out later there was a big miscommunication so he will have to get baptized later.

The Zone Conference was awesome and I learned so many good things, like talking to everyone and just believe in baptizing monthly. Also that we need to teach shorter lessons and not overwhelm people with too much information too soon! It was just an exciting conference! It was my last one though so I was really sad about that. 

So this week we spent most of it just talking to a bunch of people, finding new people to teach and getting our brother ready for baptism. It was funny though I role played with him how to do the baptism. I told him that I needed to say a prayer before he went under the water and then he said a prayer it was funny!

How's everyone doing over there? What did you learn this week? For Christmas or my birthday I would love to get a hand written letter from anybody who would like to send one to me. If you need my address just ask my mom!!

Love,

Elder Reisner

Happily engaged in the work too busy to write!

Dear family and friends-

 

The couple that we found last week and went to church with us we didn't get to have any contact with them this week. They said they are really busy but we are going to try and go by tonight so we'll see what happens.  

 

The single guy we have been working with is ready to get baptized this Sunday!! It's so awesome!! My camera took a trip down the stairs so it is a good thing that you bought an extended warranty on it. I will try and send it home this week and make sure I buy a disposable camera to take pictures at his baptism!! 

 

This last week we taught a lot more but we didn't find and its because we've been pretty prideful and not trusting in the Lord as much as we should. 

 

Tomorrow is Zone Conference and I am really excited about that!! The bishop in my ward told me that he had a dream about me. He said that I was going to work in the church administration offices so that was cool. I really like him he's really missionary minded!

 

I don't have a lot to write about this week but I hope everyone is doing well!

Love, Elder Reisner

Finding with a dog = great contact!!

Hi everyone!

 

I had a really awesome week! We had an interesting experience we were contacting a referral that we got and all of the sudden this dog comes up to us. So we looked around to try and figure out who he belongs to. We decided to use finding its owner as an icebreaker while we were knocking on doors. We had no luck finding anyone or the dogs owner. We were just going to leave the dog when all of the sudden this lady comes up to us and told us that the dog wasn't going to leave us alone. She told us that when she lived in Mexico her job was to find homes for lost pets. So she helped us find a place to put the dog and then we got talking with her and she said for us to come back the next day! So we did and we thought she was single but when we called her husband answered. He said they could still do the appointment. We taught them an amazing restoration lesson and the spirit was so strong! We invited them to be baptized and they said yes! Oh and get this they said they would come to church on Sunday but all Latinos say yes just to not look bad. But we confirmed with them Saturday night and Sunday and then they came to church! It was awesome!! 

 

So with the Relief Society activity we had last week our area didn't get any referrals but there were a lot for some of the other areas and so that's OK. 

 

I didn't teach the English class this week because we taught the family. We may have to drop our sister investigator because she still cancels all the time and hasn't been to church. The brother that we are working with came to church with us. Things are looking good for his baptism November 24th! We are going to baptize monthly now I am so excited! :-) 

 

On Thanksgiving we will be playing soccer and eating a TON of food! It will be good though and I always look forward to spending time with members and making good contacts when we play soccer!  

 

Also this week we had to speak on Sunday. Every second Sunday they want the missionaries to give a talk. Well nobody was assigned so they said OK now it's time for the missionaries to speak and nobody went up. Then they said missionaries? So I got up with Elder Nielsen and said some words. I had no idea what to say so I really had to be guided by the spirit. Hopefully it was good! Haha anyways I hope you all have a great week!

 

Elder Reisner

Members and Missionaries Working Together!

Hello Everyone!

 

I am doing pretty well. It has been an up and down week. Our recent convert family are still good. They couldn't come to church because their car broke down but they are working on it!  

 

We didn't have English class this last week because we also had a Halloween activity with cute kids and cute costumes! We also had this HUGE Relief Society activity that we had to set up for. It was a lot of work!! The activity was good - we did a play and we sang "Called to Serve" also all of the Hermanas were supposed to bring referrals and investigators and a lot of them did!! So that was really cool!! We have a lot of work ahead!  

 

We are working with a new guy. He hasn't been to church yet but I think he will soon. He is very interested in progressing in the gospel! The single sister that we have been working with kept cancelling on us this week which is always super frustrating. We also taught a man who is pretty staunch Catholic he was a little different and I am not sure that he wants us to teach him anymore but we will see what happens!

 

I can't believe it is November already! All the members are telling me that I am super close to going home but I don't want to think about that right now or at all!!

 

That's pretty much it for this week.

Love, Elder Reisner