This has been a good week, but wasn't as effective as we had hoped. We got rained out this weekend and just haven't been as effective with out time as we should have. We are definitely looking forward to pushing forward more this week. This has been my first transfer staying with the same companion, so it has been interesting, but I'm so glad that I am able to stay two transfers with Elder Ahn. He is technically the greenie, but he is amazing and I learn alot from him. We have a lot of differences, but plently of similarities and have been able to kind of cover each other's weeknesses. I love serving with Elder 안광옥!!

 

This week we were able to find three new investigators again!! We hope we can keep it up and teach them all effectively! One of our new investigators, though, is still kind of mystery to Elder Ahn and I. We first met her one night when we were coming home for the day and we was at one of the entrances of our apartment complex. The wierd part though is that is seemed like she was waiting for us. She seemed really apprehensive and almost scared and just asked some kind of strange questions. But we taught a little, gave her a Book of Mormon and went on her way. We ran into her again a couple days later and it was still a little weird, but not as bad because it was just on the street in the middle of the day. We met her again at the same entrance to apartment one night and it just felt super weird again. So we were just going to be careful and keep our eyes out. Then this week, we got a call from someone asking if we could come teach. Elder Ahn said it was a lady who wanted us to teach her son English, so we went right away with a member. When we opened up the door, my heart took a jump when I saw it was Serena, the lady. I was especially worried because she doesn't even have a son at all. Also, in her living room, there was a little bike with a soccer pattern seat just like one we had seen a couple hours earlier halfway across town outside our apartment complex. I was kind of freaking out. The teaching appointment went alright, but it was still a bit strange. We found out later that the bike wasn't the same and that Serena never said anything about English and he had just confused her with someone else, so that easied our worries a lot. I think she is just a really troubled lady who needs a lot of help and doesn't really know what to do with her life at the moment. I think God might have some work for us to do to help this poor daughter. It was just an interesting experience getting to know her. I'll keep you posted if anything else exciting happens.

 

I am so grateful for the Gift and power of the Holy Ghost. In 3 Ne. 19:9, the people pray for that wich they desired MOST and it was the Holy Ghost. What an incredible gift God has promised to give us as we live up to our covenants!! I realized as I read that scripture that I ought to focus more not on just living worthy for the companionship of the Holy Ghost, but to be constantly striving, desiring, and asking for it's constant presence, guidance, and influence in my life. I know that only through the Holy Ghost can we truly understand and come to know these truths and only through the Holy Ghost can we effectively share these truths with others. The Holy Ghost truly is the channel God has provided for us to transcend our imperfect knowledge, ability, and desires as imperfect people and partake of God loving power, truth, and guidance as our perfect Father in Heaven. That is so amazing to me! I love this gospel and I am so grateful for the opportunity to share it with others!

 

Have a wonderful week! I love you all!

 

Love, Elder Tolman