Week 35: Missionary work and mechanic work

First off I want to apologize because I took the equivalent of 0/342569243 pictures this week. I'll improve for next week. 

This week was an upgrade from last week, not too much tracting was done and we had some good lessons. We were blessed with a couple of new investigators. One is named Dave and he's super funny. When we first ran into him he told us to "stay groovy" as we said goodbye to him. After our first lesson with him we think that he had a lot better understanding than most when we tell people that we believe that we're the same church that Christ established and that we're the only true church on the earth. He told us that what we were suggesting was quite a lot to take in and that it would take him some more lessons and reading and praying for him to know for himself if what we were saying was true. 

This week we were also blessed with the opportunity to give some service. On Monday (not yesterday but the week previous) we were able to help a member in the ward figure out what was wrong with his vehicle. (Mom maybe you could send the picture sent to you?) The next morning we were called and informed that one of the "Ward Mechanics" would like some help working on a vehicle of someone from the ward. The Mechanic, brother Winkler, at some point had had a stroke which left him weaker than before so he requested some help. If any of you know me then you know my greatest hobby is cars (anything and everything to do with them) so I was chomping at the bit to help. Well, we get there and a few minutes later the mechanic rolls up. Something that had slipped my mind up until that point was the brother Winkler is deaf. So calling upon the Spirit to bring to my remembrance the sign language I had learned at school, I began signing to him to figure out where and how he'd like us to help. We ended up helping him replace the clutch. We only got everything removed but had to leave before we could help with putting everything back together. Still a wonderful experience! 

On Sunday we had our investigator, Vivian, there where she was able to make friends with some members of the ward. She stayed for all three hours and enjoyed it all so she's progressing nicely and we think that we are going to be able to have the baptism on the scheduled date of February 10th! 

Yesterday morning we went to help the Stake Patriarch (who lives in our ward) with a garage that he is building. Again, if any of you know me than you know that I love to help build things and have been doing so ever since I could hold a hammer. Everything that I know about framing a house I credit to my Grandpa. Unfortunately, a lot of what we did was help move plywood and studs since there were 3 or 4 men there doing the framing that had been doing it for years. It was still a refreshing experience to hear the sounds of saws, compressors and tape measures while smelling the fresh cut wood. Towards the end we helped put up a couple of beams for the headers of the garage doors. 

Recently Elder Nordgren and I have wanted to be able to be more effective missionaries. Most of the time we fall into the easy habit of tracting or contacting when our plans and back-up plans fall through. Not to say that those activities are bad (that's how we've found every single investigator we have besides two since we got here) but we know that the Lord knows who the prepared people are so the most effective use of our time would be finding and teaching those very people. So we have been trying extra hard to be our extra best and we've been relying on the Lord to give us direction. Well the last couple of nights when we've had our plans fall through we've decided to pray and seek the guidance of the Spirit. As a result we have quite a few appointments set up yielding from managing to catch investigators at home (finally). It's been a testimony building experience to rely more on the Lord to be guided to where we need to be. It actually takes a big load off of our shoulders and makes our job a lot more simple. 

Just a reminder to all of you that another Prophet has been chosen to lead the people on the earth at this time just like in times past to fulfill the promise in the scriptures "that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and in him there is no variableness neither shadow of changing". I look forward to being led and guided by the Prophet today, Russell M. Nelson.

I love you all very much and I know that this is the Lord's work and glory.
Love,
Elder Puzey

Elder Nordgren and Elder Puzey working on Brother Tahauri's truck
Elder Puzey did not take any pics this week but a sweet ward member sent this text to me (mom) late one night and said these Elders were 'angels on the Lord's errand.'

Later in the week we got these pictures of Elder Puzey emailing from the library from the same ward member. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 28: The Liahona

Image
So we've been here for a week now so we're starting to get things figured out. This week actually flew by for me cause we were super busy! So Monday was transfers and that takes the whole day so that was over instantly. On Tuesday we were down in Rancho again to help bring up the luggage of the new missionaries in our zone. On Thursdays the assistants came up to the desert to talk to us and the other two zone leaders in our stake. All four of us have never been zone leaders before and have never had a companion that was a zone leader so they answered the questions that we had and walked us through some of our responsibilities and such. It was much needed. On Saturday we were back down in Rancho (I'm not complaining cause I love the valley) to go on exchanges with the APs. They live in the backyard of a members house and they call it a barn but the inside is exactly like a house and it is so nice! It's probably 3 times the size of our apartment. While on exchanges Elder ...
Read more

Week 49: #findjohn

Image
Well this week wasn't too eventful in the teaching department. We did teach a new investigator named Don on Tuesday. He is Catholic and his son goes to Notre Dame so he has a pretty good understanding about authority. He seemed surprisingly accepting of the different things that we taught and he had real questions to ask us. He wondered if John was the last Apostle and if he never died then why isn't the whole world trying to find John? He said that with all the technology we have and phones and pictures that it should be easy for us to find him. He was mostly joking at this point but he brings up a good point. I think we should all try to find John. He's probably got a lot of stories he could tell us throughout the years. Maybe next time we go to teach Don we can tell him about the three Nephites?? Just kidding. I'm really enjoying living here in Rancho Cucamonga. It reminds me of California which I guess makes sense but being in the desert for 10 months made...
Read more

Week 1: World War

Image
The first day at the MTC feels like you're in a tornado with whirlwinds and shafts in the whirlwinds. It's fast paced and everything is new. Luckily there is always someone to point you in the right direction. Not even 20 minutes being here and our new district is in the classroom which is where we meet our companions for the first time. My companion is Elder Jensen who is from Bountiful and spent a year at Utah State. The other two elders are our roommates for our stay at the MTC. I'll save y'all the boring information about our time in the classroom and just get to the good stuff. The story behind the title originates on the first floor of our residence building. That is where all of the language missionaries are staying so many of them have been there for nine weeks and some even up to twelve. When we first moved in one of the elders on our floor lead us to the first floor to get drinks from the vending machine. He told us to prepare for the "World War"...
Read more