This week I turned Heating Engineer

This week we had a conference for everyone to watch. We have a satellite dish (much like a TV dish) at the chapel which receives the BYU channel which is quite nice, so we yes I enjoy did! And I loved it!

Conference was kinda stressful for me this time around! Sunday was stressful because we had 2 investigators come to church, and gratefully bishop gave them a lift here, but one of the threw up in the middle of the first session outside (I think it was because they'd bought drinks from the garage on Sunday) so they missed quite a bit of it. So that was unfortunate.
Then for the rest, we were the ones who opened the chapel, everyone else either wasn't there or didn't have any keys!

And then bishop wanted me to sort out the cooling, because it was getting quite hot, and they'd moved the air con into the new chapel next door. So using some crafty physics and some clever placement, I managed to get the air flowing. But the young men moved my fans! And by the time I got it perfect, it was night time.... so that was interesting. But it worked! That's the main thing.
One of the kids also tried to jump over the cable and practically broke it. The kid then ran into his car and hid there. Thankfully it still worked so all was good!
Too much stress. But conference was good!

Had exchanges with Elder Souza this week! Went to Kempton Park, and it was pretty good!
We also went contacting twice during the week, once in their area on Friday, and then on Saturday in our area.

On Friday we went to a pizza place for lunch (I was fasting) and I wanted to talk to someone about the gospel but was a little scared, so I prayed, then amazingly someone came and sat down in front of me and I was able to talk to him!!! It was so good!
I met some really great people during the week, when contacting which was really nice.
I tried to contact this one guy who was sitting in his car, and rejected me, so I immediately changed the topic to the weather. Turns out he was a self-made atheist, but was very nice and listening to me, and when I showed him a Book of Mormon pass along card he was very interested!

My week fast went well, and although it was really hard at times I made it through! 6 days fasting every day!

Had a run-in with someone who was in our car. We'd got some nice food at the end of the Saturday conference, courtesy of the young women, and the desert was in some polystyrene cups. I was waiting with mine because I was driving but this guy was eating. Then when he'd finished he decided to roll down the window and I knew that he was going to throw them out, so I said not to and just take it home, but he ignored me and threw them onto the road as we were driving (slow). I didn't say anything, but because the appointment canceled, as we were driving back, I stopped the car, got out, picked them up, and got back in and put them in the bin at home. I didn't say anything to him, and neither him to me but I think I dealt with it in the right way.

Then another miracle! A guy who we'd contacted a while ago I called to see if he was still interested (we had nothing to do) and he wanted a bible immediately! So we rushed over to another area to get one off them (we had none) and delivered it to him. Now while we were there he wasn't too interested, but I felt a prompting to give him a Book of Mormon, and as I did he suddenly got really interested and was super focused for the rest of the time we were there! So he seems really promising! The people the Lord has prepared are starting to come out of the cracks!

I really liked the talks about finding Joy, and how joy isn't found in our circumstances but in our attitude. And the Plan of Salvation!

Well that was my week.

Love you lots!!

Jack