Email October 20, 2014

Hello Family, This was a rough week. :/ Two of our investigators dropped us. The two with the best potential, basically gone. Fernando, the one who had been able to avoid drinking since we gave him the blessing, fell back into it and wants us to give him some space. And Dan, the one we talked with last week and barely kept investigating, said he's not sure again. So yeah. We basically lost two of the best investigators we have. Jennifer still wants to have the church tour before I leave and is still okay to listening to our message, but she's still really preoccupied with a lot of stuff in her own life and that's really tough. But she has a lot of potential which is good. She just needs to realize it and we need to help her realize it. Brad is still coming along. Slowly, but he's doing it. But one ray of hope investigator-wise was Tyler, an investigator who we haven't ever been able to meet with since I got here, but we finally made contact and set up an appointment for Wednesday so that'll be sweet if it works out! Most of our less actives either cancelled on us or forgot we had a lesson so that wasn't very cool. We were only able to get into two less actives' homes this week. Not cool. So yeah, this week was a pretty big bummer. Even though I hit my year mark, it was kind of a bummer week. The two best parts of the week were when we had dinner at the Dooley's home and in the middle of a conversation Brother Dooley randomly said that Elder Raab and I both had an individual part in his baptism/conversion. That was so nice to hear this week! And the other was at the end of Ward Council yesterday when the 1st councilor in the bishopric came up to me after the meeting and told me that I am the "most happy jolly, willy nilly missionary he has ever met!" I told him thanks and that if I get transferred in November that I'm really going to miss it here in Grass Valley. Then he and the 2nd councilor both told me that they are going to miss me too, if I get transferred. Those made me feel really good as well. It was much appreciated after a hard week. Yeah, we saw Meet the Mormons, but no, we can't take investigators to go see it. We only got to see it at the stake center so that we can refer members and investigators to go see it too. They didn't stream it, they had a disk. I've seen the Facebook posts, it's amazing to hear how well it's being spread and seen! And so that's about it for this week. Not a very good week. :/ But that's okay, there's always next week and you can't win them all! Hope you guys all have a great week!!! Talk to you later! I love you! Love, Elder Cevering