Week #2 leading the sector in Sedalana
This week has been fun but also very tiring and a little frustrating. We once again pushed a truck and once we got it going fast enough the owner got in the truck and started it up. I'm not really sure how that works but we only pushed it like half a block so it wasn't too hard. We also walked out of our area two separate days and we didn't even know it. The first time a member thought we were lost and called us over and said the road we went down is out of the area. Then the next time we were walking down and I didn't recognize any of the houses and told Elder Knudson that this isn't in our area. We turned around and our District Leader and his comp was just a block down. So we talked to them about where our area ends and where their area starts.
It also felt like we DE'd or decided we're not gonna teach a few people that are just not progressing and aren't coming to church. It felt like we cleaned out all of our people that we were teaching and so we had to find some new people this week. But Friday I think we tried talking to 8 or 9 different doors and we either got their Jehovah Witnesses, Evangelists, or just "busy". We didn't find anyone. Earlier that day we were supposed to take two of our friends to the temple but they never responded to our texts and wouldn't answer their phones. So safe to say Friday was a bit of a rough day. I think all of our time to meet with people fell through and we just stayed in contact all day.
Then Saturday was a big turn around. I found a really beat up penny in the middle of the street and Elder Knudson said that might be our lucky penny. Safe to say it was our lucky penny. I think we found 1 or 2 people Saturday and found 4 yesterday. All of our lessons or at least most of them we were actually able to teach and we both seem to be getting to know the people and sector pretty well.
I can't remember what day it was this week but we also listened to another BYU devotional from Elder Holland called "Remember Lot's Wife". It is a super good talk and has some really good quotes for example "We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead, we remember that faith is always pointed toward the future." This quote I really like because sometimes we can look back and only see the ashes or the bad stuff that has happened when in reality the embers are the brightest parts and in a fire the easiest to see. I'll leave the link to the talk in this email and also a song that Elder Knudson showed me that we can listen to here that's probably the closest we can get to normal music.
To finish up this week was a little rough but without the rough days you can't have the good days. (2nd Nephi 2:11) But there were many learning experiences from either Elder Knudson or just new stuff that I have learned.
Miss all you guys
Elder Roper
