Alright ladies and gentlemen, let me just tell you about how awesome the work of the Lord is.
Monday was killer as usual. After emails we went and taught Anthony about the Restoration, and he knows a ton about the gospel, so we can go a little deeper than we normally would! tons of fun! He just needs to come to church.. after that we went to Bonaths house for dinner and taught Bob a lesson and ate some nasty super Cambodian food. It wasn't actually bad, I really liked it, but it looked nasty.
Tuesday we had our combined district meeting/ZTM, and our training went awesome. It was super cool, the spirit was so strong. All we did was teach how to use the Pamphlet for Lesson 2, it was so cool. we finished the example, and it was totally silent. super neat. Heavenly Father helps those who prepare. After that we went back home, ate dinner, and finished the night teaching prim!
Wednesday was rough, we had our 5 lesson day totally fall apart, and we literally only saw ten people the rest of the day trying to teach. Our lesson with Saroeuth was really cool though, He asked if there was anyone in the branch who could be his friend and we told him to come to church and find out, but then he left to Cambodia
Thursday, so we will see what happens when he gets back.
Thursday was also rough, but ya'know, trial of your faith and all. It was a good day in the end, we worked really hard and ended up sending 6 referrals to other missionaries from contacts we had, we were happy with it!
Friday was crazy. We were only planning on 2 lessons, because we had Dance Practices and Weekly planning, but we got a call from Samey who we haven't heard from in almost a month, asking us to come and meet her at the Temple. She told us that she had totally lost control of her life and told us there were things going on in her family that she just wanted some kind of help with and we ended up having a super super powerful lesson on the Atonement. After that, Thorn called us and asked if we could come meet him at his girlfriends house, so we called Jonathan and went over to teach him! Turns out, he has started praying for a job, and he decided he is Moving out of his girlfriends house, because she is really just using him to take his welfare money, and that he got a call for Job interview at a funeral home that needs someone who can speak Cambodian! It was super cool, and he asked if he can keep learning and apologized for not listening to us as much as he should have. It was sweet. After that, we didn't have time to finish planning before our dinner appointment, so we drove home, and by some miracle there was no traffic at all which is super abnormal going into Oakland at 4:30, so we had a half hour to go teach. we went to this one less active named Sok Khom, and he almost never answers, but he did!! He let us in and we shared a really awesome lesson on the Restoration (using that cool training we got on pamphlets) and headed to dinner. Our dinner was super cool too, Their names are Ramona and Sanyun, and Sanyun has one of the strongest testimonies I have ever seen, but is blind and has really bad health. We got there and Ramona asked us if we could give him a blessing, and he heard that and got himself out of bed so he could come see us, he was so excited, I love Sanyun! They are both in their 60's, and love love love the missionaries. But anyway, we ate and the whole time Sanyun just wanted to talk to the missionaries, because he never gets to really leave his house because he is so sick, it was great. After eating, He asked me to give him the blessing, and I had not ever given a blessing in Cambodian before, so I was really nervous, but he started crying and before we left said that it was perfect for him, so the Lord definitely helped me out! After that we went to dance practices and taught Jonathan. good day.
Saturday was super cool! We got a referral to San Francisco on Monday, and we went to teach him! We met him at his house, and he was so excited to see us, he was just waiting for us all week so head could learn about Christ. We shared an awesome awesome lesson on the restoration just in front of his house, because his land lord didn't want us inside, and he asked when we could come back, and promised he will read the whole pamphlet and start the Book of Mormon, I couldn't believe it! That was the first person that elder Hibbert and I have found, so we were pretty excited! After that we went to see some other potentials, but no one answered, so we got dinner and went to teach Prim! Prim was great, he told us about how he has been trying to read the book of Mormon story book, but that it is really hard, and we told him about how heavenly father just wants him to at least try, and he will be blessed, and he thought that was the most amazing thing ever, then we talked about how he can pray for help to understand too, it was awesome!
ah. but it was ok, church was great anyway! After words, we went to visit this guy we met on 90th, but he wasn't home, but when we turned around, Torn was standing right on the other side of the fence smiling at us!!! We were shocked, I looked at him and just said "where the heck were you today??" and he had a crazy reply, he said "I'm real sorry elders, but when I was leaving Holly's house yesterday morning, she got mad and called the police on me, and apparently there was a warrant for my arrest from 5 years ago when I broke my dads windshield when I was drunk, they hadn't been able to find me because I haven't had a set address since I graduated High school, so they came and had me spend a night in jail, so I couldn't come to church, but everything's cool now". We were totally shocked and busted up laughing, because that is totally something that would happen to Torn, it was so funny. After that we went home to finally finish weekly planning, it was a great week
I love being a missionary so much, I am always happy! Even if stuff doesn't work out, or people are rude or obnoxious, I don't ever feel angry or anything, it is literally the best. I Know the church is true, this gospel is so special. I hope everyone is doing well and has an awesome week!!
Love,
Elder Tolman
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