Dear Family and Friends,
This past week has been super awesome! The Lord is truly pouring out blessings upon us.
Tuesday we went to Watonga again because we set up an appointment with some potentials. When we got there they said "Now isn't a good time." You just gotta love missionary work sometimes. You drive 60 miles just to get rejected. But it turned out all right because we were able to go and visit Mae. She is a lot more blind than we realized but with the help of the ward council we should be able to get her a super simple CD player and the Book of Mormon on Audio CDs. The challenge with her will be getting her to church so we'll see if it ends up going anywhere.
Wednesday we had a slow afternoon and then we had dinner with Bishop and his family. After we left, Bishop went to the home of the 3 foster kids' mom to ask for permission to be baptized but she ignored him and wouldn't answer the door. So we're still fasting and praying for a miracle with them. We visit them pretty regularly and it's awesome to see how the gospel has changed their lives. They need to be baptized!
Thursday evening we went out with one of the priests in our ward who is getting ready to submit his mission papers. We had an appointment scheduled with Taryn and Jonalea but they had to cancel because they got sick. And the original appointment we set for Tuesday night fell through because they had something come up. So then we went and tried our most solid potentials but they didn't answer. So then we tried anyone we could think of but no one answered except for a lady named Kelly who we ended up dropping because she isn't interested anymore. So hopefully the priest still had a good time even though we weren't able to really talk to anyone.
Friday we had an awesome district meeting on fear. Something I'm working on right now is having more perfect love for the people of Oklahoma so I'm not so afraid to talk to them. "Perfect love casteth out all fear." (Moroni 8:16) Afterwards I got to go on exchanges with Elder Yamane. It was a pretty rough day of proselyting. Basically no one was home and our most promising potentials dropped us. But right before we went to dinner, we saw a couple sitting out on their porch (which is really unusual for my area) and so we started talking with them. They seemed pretty interested and they said they would read and pray about the Book of Mormon. #Miracle #TenderMercies
Saturday we got to do service by helping a member move into our ward which was super fun! Later that night we had a BBQ with some members and then roasted smores around the campfire in their backyard which was awesome after an exhausting day.
Sunday we got to go and help out with stake mission prep because the instructor is one of our ward missionaries. It was weird but also cool to be the missionaries and talk to the youth about serving missions.
Helen was out of town this week. We had a solid lesson with the less-active and his girlfriend. She's been struggling with how she thinks the church puts more of a focus on Joseph Smith than Jesus Christ and after we had a solid fast and testimony meeting about the love of Christ she said that she's a lot more open to baptism. We're going to meet with her this week and set a baptismal date! The other 2 kids have been making progress with getting permission and their baptismal date is set for Nov. 21 so hopefully things will continue to go as planned.
The funny experience this week was when Elder Yamane and I visited an inactive member. She opened the door, saw us, and came out and started reprimanding us. "Not to be rude but this is the 4th time in 4 years that the missionaries have come to my house. Take me off your stupid list or I'll call your mission president!" So I tried to tell her that we don't have the ability to take her name off of the list but before I could tell her that only the Bishop can do that she said, "That's it, I'm calling your mission president." And then she walked back inside and shut the door. I just think it's hilarious that she threatens us by saying she's going to call the mission president. What's he going to do? He can't take her name off the records and he'll probably be glad to know that his missionaries are doing their job. Some people...
Anyways, things are going good and I love being a missionary! Hope you all have a wonderful week!
Love, Elder Larsen
Deuteronomy 20:1
P.S. We got trainer calls Saturday night and Elder Holbrook is training again. So this coming Sunday I'll find out where I'm getting transferred to. If you send me anything make sure I get it before October 28th or send it to the mission office
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