Tracting

Hello one and all!

Did you all have an amazing week? I hope everyone is happy and healthy :)

Well let's see my week was pretty enlightening. Our stake had a

revelation that in order to increase membership missionaries should

start tracting, which is knocking on people's doors and sharing the

gospel with them. Arcadia, CA hasn't been a tracting mission because

it can be very dangerous to tract in a lot of areas. So they brought

the idea to President Villanueva of our mission and he agreed! Great!

So it is just our zone in the mission that will start up tracting

again. It has been very interesting. I'm not going to say I have a

passion for tracting... Yet! So far this week it's just been hard

fitting time to tract into our schedules. We're supposed to be

tracting 2-3 hours a day but this week it's been hard to get 1 hour!

No interesting stories to tell from it yet though. Just saying who we

are and invite them to learn more about Christ and then they say no.

I'll try to get some stories for you guys though for next week ;)

One thing I can say is that tracting definitely puts contacting in perspective.

Contacting is so much easier now! And we pray A LOT. It's a amazing

how much you rely on the Lord especially when you have no idea what

you're doing and somehow it all works out. I know that because I have

put my trust in him that he is going to lead me to others who need to

hear the message that will bring them to a brighter future. So ya the

mission's hard, I wanted it to be hard, I'm like super excited that

it's hard, because that's how great things get done! And great things

are getting done. Sister Iaboo and I are laying down a great

foundation here that didn't have sister missionaries for a while, and

I have a feeling that though people don't accept what we have to say

yet, they will later on in their lives.

So unfortunately we had to drop Refugio this week, which was tough.

Apparently she didn't understand that she had accepted a baptismal

date.... So that was awkward. So that limited our teaching pool. But

we went and visited a referral from the church head quarters, which

aren't usually that good because the info can be out dated, but this

guy was solid! His name is Khan and he told us that he was ready to

learn about our church, and he accepted the invitation to be baptized!

Also we got a referral from the elders! Her name is Brittany and she

is 16 years old and she just lost her dad and wants to find a religion

to connect with him. So we'll see how those potentials go!

Funny things that happened to me this week:

3 people asked if I was Russian (Which really isn't that random, this

place is very culturally diverse, and people like to ask where

everyone is from to speak their native language)

1 lady asked if I was pregnant

1 guy said I looked like Jennifer Lopez

Have a lovely day!

Sister Plumb