This past week was a definite challenge to see all of our investigators and how they are progressing. We invited people to be baptized and to attend church as well. We have about three investigators that we wanted to accept baptismal commitments, but instead are all thinking about the decision right now as we speak. We met with one of our investigator's last night at D's place and had dinner. He is doing way better and seems that we are in the good graces of his girlfriend again! YEAH! It is difficult, however, to find out what exactly to teach him. He has been taught many of the lessons already, but President R spent some time with me and my companion over to a new member this past weekend about inviting our investigators parents in on the discussions. A lot of things happened this past week while going about doing the Lord's work.
This past Wednesday, I went on splits with Elder H in Uralmash. We had good time out in the rain stopping by less active members of the church and being successful with a few that opened the doors to us!! That area has a ton of potential to work with part member families it seems. As we were walking we stopped some pretty interesting people. The first man that we stopped was a guy named J, that is a weird name by the way in Russian. He had no pupil in his
right eye and had a hard time focusing his gaze upon us as we talked with him about the purpose of life. He was super cool. He had a problem with his eye sight to the point where he can only see heat signatures! We found one of the X-MEN!! We ended up inviting him to a meeting and one other promising man that we met on the street later that afternoon. We were walking in an older part of the city with apartment buildings that were built during the second world war when a Gothic man came walking up and We both said hello to him. He was super excited for the fact that we stopped to talk to him. He was a strong believer in his orthodox faith and blessed us as we left along our way to have a few meetings at the church with some investigators. I learned a lot from Elder H as he testified boldly promising people blessings in the time of our contacting. We also learned that you cannot start making doubts abut a person on the street before you talk to them because that is putting limitations on the Lord. It was a good learning experience for me and we had a great time.
Our new member's son is investigating the church right now at the age of fourteen. We went with President R to meet with him and his dad. The son loves cross country skiing and cross country running according to this he has a billion medals and awards. He is a pretty awesome kid. We sat down and shared some banana bread with everyone and started to discuss the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Spirit was super strong as the dad testified and as we pertained the lesson to him by comparing Jesus Christ to our coach in running the race of life. He was not read to answer our commitment to be baptized but said he will think about it. President was a good help on that lesson as well! (He is super awesome!) After the lesson V wanted to show us his new pet. He pulled out what looked like a small porcupine but was a hedgehog from his garden. It really had sharp spikes and he let the little creature curl up into a ball and held it with his hands. It was a sight to see. Later on the hedgehog escaped and ran into the corner but the house cat got a little too curious and got a bit hurt as well from the sharp spikes. Man that thing can growl too!!
We received transfer calls this past weekend as well and it looks like I may need to pull out my winter gear early this year as I go to Siberia to serve in Kurgan!! I am super excited. Back in a smaller town with only two companionship's. You can't get more epic than that, and neither can the weather out there. I will be serving with Elder E and will be the zone leader with Elder Y in Tyumen. I cannot wait to experience that , which the Lord has in store for me there. Love you all and be sure to enjoy the warm weather!!
Love,
Elder LeFevre
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