and I will be staying in Dinkytown for another transfer together.
Woot woot! It is going to be real fun. This will be my sixth
transfer in this area. That is crazy! So by the time I finish this
transfer I will have been here for almost 9 months. Pretty crazy.
This doesn't happen too often but I like it. I love this area and so
I am happy to stay!
We had a pretty great week! Easter is always a nice time of year. I
very much enjoyed sharing the Gospel on the day that we celebrate the
Resurrection. Holidays in this ward are so goofy because a lot of
people leave and so we tend to teach less but it's alright. Yesterday
we teamed up with the sisters and made a nice Easter dinner in the
Institute building and A* came as well as our investigator H* who is
also chinese. It was fun. And when I say nice dinner we had a HUGE
bowl of macaroni and cheese, beans, salad, baked potatoes, and
biscuits. Ha ha. We miss judged how much food we would need and
ended up making WAY too much. It was hilarious. But we had nice time
and it was a good to celebrate some how. Afterwards we went onto
campus and talked to people as usual and were able to find several
people who were interested in learning more about the church. Pretty
Great!
We had a great miracle this week. About a month ago we started
teaching a guy named AY. He is from Oregon and is a student here.
His mom actually just recently was baptized into the church and
referred him to us to teach. His dad died a few months ago and so
he's kinda been lost. So we had two great lessons with him over a
month ago and then all of the sudden he disappeared! Weird. So we
were pretty bummed. And then last Monday, Elder Truman accidentally
called him from his pocket and texted him a blank text too. And we
didn't realize it. But then he texted us and asked if we could meet
that night at 7. Woo! God is totally in charge. When we met it
turns out he has just stayed to himself for the last few weeks to read
the Book of Mormon and the Bible and figure out what he really
believes. So he has read over half of the Book of Mormon now. It was
cool. He loves the Book but he isn't quite sure if he believes it is
true. He also grew up catholic and feels a lot of loyalty to that
church. But we had a great meeting with him on Monday and talked a
lot about the role of the Book of Mormon and then we met with him on
Friday and taught the Plan of Salvation and that was really great
too. He is progressing well! He was supposed to come to church
yesterday but he woke up deathly sick and didn't make it. it was
disappointing. But he'll come eventually! It is quite a miracle that
we met with him this week.
We met with our investigator from Nigeria again and invited him to be
baptized on May 26th. He accepted! So we are excited for him! We
have a lot to teach him and we hope that all goes well on the route to
baptism. We'll see!
On Saturday we were able to go to a baptism of a guy that was in the
area that Elder Truman served in before he came to be with me. He
taught this guy for 6 months and now he finally got baptized. He was
super pumped and it was fun to go to the service. There was a really
great spirit there.
Well, this week is exciting! We have several first appointments set
up with potential new investigators of people we've met on campus. I
am excited! We had a terrible day on Thursday where everyone was
rejecting us hard core, but then we got a lot of blessings on Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday and so it made up for the disappointments. :)
It looks like your easter was great! It was fun to see those
pictures. We have the coolest family ever! It wont be too long
before We will be talking on skype again!
Love you!
-Elder Ruesch
