We are just His tools

Here is the update this week, it has rained 26/28 days this past month!!! We had some sunny days but it ended up raining later but that was alright. The sun did dry up some of the rain so it isn't as bad as it use to be.

As far as this week, we had a good week even though Elder Monzales and I were both sick. We took a day rest and are now both fine. We did a lot of finding this week and it came up with some new investigators so we will see how that goes.

Jona is doing great as always. There is nothing really to teach her anymore. She understands everything and has a great testimony. She reads everyday so we just have to wait for the marriage. We hope it is soon but it doesn't look like that will happen. It might be another 3 months before that goes. We went back to Sister Droa and she is doing great. She says that her husband wants her to wait for when he is ready to get baptized. We are ok with that but she wants to go ahead of him because she believes it will be a while before he is prepared because he hasn't listened to us yet. When we go, he always gets up and leaves. We are hoping he will come along soon. Earljohn was so sure that he was going to go to church this week and we even went there on Sunday and he said he was going to but he never showed. We don't know how else to help him because he isn't helping himself. That is the hard part of it. We will keep working and maybe next week he will come. We started teaching a boy named Spencer Elisa. His parents are members and he is really great. He is loving the gospel and is very smart. We gave him a baptismal date for August 30. We hope to continue it. It will be hard to get him to church because the parents always goes to her mother on Sunday mornings so we will see what we can do to get them to church. We also got a referral from an investigator in the sister's area for their children. We contacted Mylene and Mariel Villarosa. They are really nice. We didn't get much time with them but we did invite them for baptism on August 30th. Their schedule is very hard but he hope to continue with them. It will be hard to get them again but we will keep trying.

We did some talking to people where members were present and we shared a little to them and got return appointments with them. We are going to contact them again and see how we can help them to progress.

Lots of good things are happening. We are just struggling to get them to church. We don't know the problem but the Lord does so we have to trust in him to convert them. We are just His tools.

Our area is very urban. It is all houses and stores. It makes things pretty hard to be in the city because it is hard to get people while outside of their houses. We don't do any door knocking so we jump on the opportunities we get to talk to people. It is better that way so they are more receptive.

Love you,

Elder Nielsen