Week 74  Small World

So this week was great! P-day was great we made khinakli and didn't go too bad actually! So a guy messaged sister Mercer and asked if she was a missionary. He said he is reading the Book of Mormon and he is really confused and wants us to teach him. He currently lives and India. I remembered that there was a kid from my stake back home  that is currently serving in India so I shot him a message, shout out to Elder Jue! So currently we are in contact with him to get this guy (I'll call him Shar) passed off to missionaries a little bit closer to where he is. We first had a meeting with Shar to get more info over phone call and man let me tell you we were very surprised by his knowledge he already had. He bought the BOM off of Amazon and started to read it!! Got stumped in 2nd Nephi. He talked about his catholic friends telling him not to read it but he said that he hadn't read anything bad in it yet and said that he would continue. So that was the fun miracle of the week. We had a lot of meetings this week. We met up with Em. She was a past investigator of mine. She isn't doing so well so we are going through the self reliance program and see if that helps her. We went back down to Rustavi on Friday. We met with nail lady again and she was so cute. She made us cheese khinakli and gifted us Georgian bottle toppers which I will probably hang up in my car when I get back. Her husband (who is a member) messaged us later and thanked us for making his wife's day which was so cute! Later we had a meeting with the grandma that we helped last week. Her son goes to Rustavis English group actually. The meeting was really weird. Everytime I tried to do the normal missionary tactics it didn't work. Tried bringing up her saint pictures on the wall and talk about Christ, but she just nodded and changed the subject. There are so many religious things in her house and we tried to make convo using them, but the conversation would constantly be switch. Even in normal conversation we couldn't hold anything. Well we thought it was a disaster of a meeting, but still decided to gift a Book of Mormon at the end. So the really cool thing about this is that a few days later the elders start to hang out with her son and the son said he wanted to read the book. Well, the next day he texts the elders to say he does not understand the Russian version very well.  This confused the elders because they hadn't given him a Russian one. Guess what?  That was ours we gave the mom! So another small miracle! Saturday we did a cleaning project which went great. Sunday we finally did the children and youth activity to explain the program. We didn't have everyone show up due to sickness, but it still went great! The kids are very excited so the work has paid all off. Another fun week ahead...this will be fun. Relief society activity and exchanges with Isani!

So don't have too much time left and I'm getting kinda lazy so this will be a fast spiritual thought: Something I learned more this week is going and doing even if you don't want to or understand why. God sometimes will give you tasks that you don't understand but trust me, there is always a miracle waiting at the end of the tunnel which always makes the task worth it.

Well that was the week, til next time!

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