16 Jun 10 - 25 Jun 10

June 25, 2010 8:12 AM

Hello from the land of Mordor!

I mean Salt Lake City!

So, transfers was Wednesday and I'm in the Sugarhouse area once again with the same companion. (this transfer is 7 weeks long).

Yesterday was supposed to be our P-Day but we did some temple service from 1-4. So P-Day got moved to today. In the temple we were throwing away concrete. One thing I love about manual labor is that no one ever asks the short skinny kid to do any of the heavy lifting. So I got to sit pretty and just sweep up all the dust and junk.

I'm on the compy right now because today I'll be doing some more service for one of our investigators who's being evicted from her place. I'll be doing that from 10 till whenever. Yesterday, I gave her a blessing and something happened for the first time: she pulled away. Of course the words were not my own and I was prompted to say a lot of things I would never have said. I believe she pulled away because she felt something that she never felt before and I think it scared her. She also looked exhausted. So we placed our hands back on her head and finished the blessing.

Other than that, most of our investigators have either been falling off date or dropping us. Our teaching pool is once again really low. And the thing is that we were told not to tract here since there's so many gay people. So we rely solely on member referrals, and if the members aren't doing their part where does that leave us? We can always always always use more work. Work work work. Something I've never really done till I came on a mission. Now I can't sit around and do nothing. Well... I still can. I just prefer not to now.

Hope everyone is doing well!

Later

Elder Garcia