Finding New Investigators

We had an ok week. We had our problems, as normal but we are coming. We are still working on finding new investigators which is the hardest part because like you said, we are struggling with getting new investigators. It makes it hard to teach if we don't have anyone to teach. We have been working a lot with former investigators to try to find new people to teach. We didn't get much success this week but we are coming.

It is also very rainy. We try to stay in member or investigator's houses during the heavy rain but when it is light, we go out and go the next closes house. It makes things interesting and fun.

This week, Carmela is coming along pretty well. She still is about the same but she was a lot more open when we taught her last time. We started teaching her the commandments so we can help her to repent of her sins or to try to find out her concern. It was a good lesson. She is doing great with her reading, she was in 4Nephi last Wednesday and we probably expect her in Ether when we go there on Wednesday. We are hoping she will just have a great experience in the Book of Mormon and will tell us she is ready for baptism.

We started teaching a kid named Marvin. His mom is less active because she works in Ilo-ilo so she isn't home to come to church and she usually is traveling back to work on Sunday (she comes home on Saturdays). He is a little bit hard but I think he will come along just fine.

Manuel was so excited for us to teach him on Wednesday and we had a good lesson but he didn't come to church again. We don't know what is going on so we will see what happens.

We didn't see a lot of our investigators this week. Some of them dropped us or are too busy to listen so we are working a lot with members to get new people to teach and then are talking to people on the streets to teach them. That is our work for the week. We will also work a lot on finding less actives because we have 500+ members but only 130 comes to church. That is a lot better way for finding new investigators then knocking on doors.

Love you all,

Elder Nielsen