The Unfruitful Freeze

 I have been doing much better- now that I've got the hang of things. I definitely see miracles happen every day- there are crazy highs and aweful lows to every hour it seems like. This has been a pretty uneventful week- mostly because of the season and the FREEZING! One lady, whose door we knocked on, opened her window and accused us of soliciting before threatening to call the cops. We were just like, "Okay, thank you!" and walked to the next door.  

All Bundled Up to Go Outside!

We were able to do a service project yesterday at an interfaith convention. We were basically the only people helping the hosts put everything together: I don't think we even told them we would- we were all just there setting up tables and putting out food and being friendly. Everything got done really fast once the "Army of Helaman" came around ;) It was really fun and interesting, but we weren't allowed to actually proselytize. Oh well, we had good conversations.

A miracle occurred when we were knocking on doors ("tracting") in a neighborhood where no one was listening. Finally, at the last door, a sweet lady named L. came out to talk with us. She told us about her family problems and after teaching the restoration she agreed to baptism. We even had a prayer at the door, which that very morning I had questioned during training. ('A prayer at the door? What?')  I was indeed humbled that day.
Unfortunately she has been hard to get back in contact with. Still, this week Sister E. and I have set a goal to have no doubtful thoughts. We'll see this through. Our goal has been really tested. M. was supposed to be baptized last Saturday, but didn't make it to her baptism. She's agreed to have it next Saturday, and we need to stay positive about it still happening. We've also been doing quite a bit of "tracting" since most of our appointments have fallen through. Most of that tracting is fruitless, seeing as it's the holidays and it has hit the single-digit degrees. That won't dissuade us! No Doubts! We've made a goal for our entire transfer: to visit and knock on every door in our area. It'll be tough, but I sure we can make it. I'm starting to grow a thick skin for the cold- but I have a long winter ahead. I'm excited!
M. is our most progressing investigator right now. We need to have daily contact with her, but she doesn't respond to text or phone calls so we have to go to her house to talk to her. The bishop has invited her to Thanksgiving dinner so we'll ask her if she replied yet. P. has dropped us- he's got a problem with one of the laws and is pretty upset with the doctrine. We'll keep him in our prayers but right now only the members can talk to him since he's blocked our calls and is out of town.
Other than all this, I'm doing great! Sister E. has the same goofy sense of humor as I do, so we're laughing a lot. Now that we trust each other more it's easy to teach together - she fills in all my gaps :) I'm really enjoying the training program but I need to be more optimistic about role-playing. I tend to think of it as a chore. I love listening to investigators stories and trying to think of ways the gospel can help them. I don't always get it on the head, but I'm getting better.

 Happy Thanksgiving :)

Love,
Sister Roberts