The Mystery of Jacob 4

Well, The sun finally came out again, this week we actually had super nice weather. Which was good because we were outside a lot. This week was good, the last few weeks it´s felt like every single lesson we had was falling through, but this week we had about 60 percent or so go through. So that was super nice. It always reminds me that we do actually help people sometimes and not just annoy them by knocking on their doors. We did have a pretty stereotypical cool missionary experience that I will share though. So we had a lesson, but the guy wasn´t home. Our backup plan was to knock this street close by. Well it was a really big street. We ended up knocking the one street for almost 3 hours. After about 30-40 people saying no and the other 60 or so people not being home, someone talked to us! It was kind of weird at first, we could tell there was a pretty big party or something that was going to happen there in a little bit but we decided to knock it anyways. First thing this younger girl answers the door (probably around our age) and she just says oh no we don´t need to talk to you guys, then she half shuts the door and we could hear someone else asking who it was and the girl just says oh it´s the Jehovahs witnesses. So I said "oh no, actually we are the mormons" and the other lady ,she turned out to be the girls mom, opened the door again and was actually super interested. She said she was raised Catholic but never really had a personal testimony of it. She said she has been searching for something that she feels is true though. so we have an appointment with her this week, hopefully all goes well! It was just a really cool experience for me about how we just have to endure sometimes. She was literally the very last door on a street about a third of a mile long and everyone who had answered before said no. If we had decided that it wasn´t worth it to continue we never would have had success. So that was cool. Another thing I have been trying to figure out lately is Jacob 4. A couple weeks ago our bishop told us to go study that chapter, he said "there´s something going on there I haven´t quite been able to figure out". So the past week Elder Dial and I have spent a lot of time reading Jacob 4 and the chapters surrounding it. Definitely interesting, but I still have no clue what the bishop was hinting at haha. It probably just takes someone smarter than me to figure it out. But that has been our big joke this week whenever we don´t know something. The answer is in Jacob 4. Anyways hope everyone is having a good life and such. Sorry I have been terrible at taking pictures lately. Maybe next week

Peace out, Elder Harding