What's crackin’ in the 801?? It’s so great here. I'm loving it! We just had another person set for baptism on Friday. It’s awesome! K so my weekly updates and stories!
Wednesday: We had to go to the North for a District Leader meeting for my companion. So I went on an Exchange with Elder Varhaaren and we talked to nobody - which sucked. But then after that, we went to downtown Omaha and went GQing with all the DL's and ZL's, we did it in English. And let me tell you, Americans are jerks!! All we'd say is “Hi,” and they would say "Go AWAY!" Yet everyone Hispanic we talked to gladly accept our word. Hispanics are so much easier to talk to, they aren't rude, and they actually listen. It’s good. I like that I'm Spanish speaking, because if I weren’t, I would hate to get turned down a lot. On the other hand, we just knock on a door and the Hispanics invite us in and listen to us! Anyway, after that we talked with Linda. She's kind of progressing, but not much. So we might cut her. We then talked to the Familia Chavez. Apparently they were all ready to be baptized about 5 years ago, but then backed out. So we're crossing our fingers with them that they can come back to the fold. Then we had dinner with the members (Gaytan). Oh my gosh! It’s so delicious! They make some good eats out here. All Mexican food, mind you. Ahh, so delish!
Thursday- We talked to this guy, Roberto. He wants to get baptized and come to church! It was great. We're going to challenge him this week. Then we got another referral for Council Bluffs, Iowa. We talked to her and the lesson made her cry! It’s so bueno! We are hoping to have those two set as well! So hopefully we will have 3 baptisms this month! Then we went to the temple! My first experience in the Winter Quarters Temple. It was great! It’s so small though! Our whole zone filled up the room. But hey, I love the temple. It’s great. Then we had our baptismal interview with Luz. She did great!
Friday- Nothing happened all day. All our appointments fell through. Then we arrived at a referrals house, Jose’ Castro. He opened the door and he, his daughter, and we watched the video Finding Faith in Christ. They both teared up. Then we taught the restoration and asked them to be baptized. Vanessa accepted!! Boom! Jose’ is going to think about it. He likes alcohol a lot. (He was actually drunk when we were there.) But the best part is that Vanessa is going to be baptized! We were so glad to hear that she has a friend who is a member, so that’s super too! The rest of the night we prepped for the baptism!
Saturday- Every single appointment fell through again. So we just visited some members we knew in the area and got some more referrals. Then we visited Luz and made sure it was all ready to go. Then we traveled to the church, filled the font, and prepared the program. And then the service began! It was a good service. We even had a couple investigators show up. We hoped they would feel the Spirit. So I got into the font. She was bawling. I felt bad. And to make matters worse, I had to do it twice because her feet popped up! But it was quite the spiritual experience for me. After I got out, I realized I had no towel....ha-ha. So I used my shirt to dry off! I just spun around in circles until I was dry. But after that, I really thought about when Jesus was baptized, and it, seriously, is so awesome to baptize someone and see the joy in their face. It was such a great experience. After that, we contacted 3 referrals who are golden! They asked where the church is! We made appointments with them!Sunday- Sunday's are pretty chill in the morning! We just studied until about 11. Then we got ready and picked up the north Elders. They made us lunch. And then we went to church. My companion taught Sunday School...so he picked on me a lot. Then I said the closing prayer. Then right as we get out, the 1st counselor asked me to say the opening prayer in sacrament meeting, then the Elders Quorum President asked us to bless the sacrament! They choose me just because I'm white and I'm new. Everyone, and I mean everyone, everywhere, asks me to say the prayer. It’s like they want to hear me mess up? But, hey, it’s good for me because I need to get better at speaking the language. But, hey, it’s fun. During sacrament meeting we Confirmed Luz and gave her the Gift of the Holy Ghost. It was great as well! It really is such a humbling, awesome experience to see conversion in people. After that, we had our meeting with the ward mission leaders to see more referrals and to work more as a ward to get more people. I never really knew all this stuff went on behind scenes! I didn't know what the ward mission leader did until now. But really people need to work more in the wards to bring people unto Christ. After church we had dinner with the Rivera's. We had lasagna. It was delish. After dinner, we contacted inactive members. It was good. They all just say they are too lazy to come to church. Hopefully they will come this next week!!
I live right down the street from the College World Series place. It’s awesome. They are building a new one over by the Qwest Center. The electric blanket is money in the bank! I love that thing. I probably won't need a bike because my area is huge because we are Spanish! I cover from Iowa to the very west part of Omaha! We do get a money allotment but we don’t use it all because we eat with the members so much. But I use it to buy other stuff still! Thank you for everything you do for me. I really am so grateful. I love it out here so much. It really is awesome to do the Lord's work! Love you so much!!
Love always,
Elder Bradley Rigby
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