Week 61 Letter

Week 6 of transfer 3 in Corona Possibly the last here 8S

Letter from 9/2/2013

All:
The weather here has been miserable this last week. It's been in the 100's/high 90's and with uncharacteristically high humidity for So Cal.  We actually had to take a walking day because it was too hot to ride our bikes.

We had a bitter-sweet experience the other day. Our home-share (the person whose house we live at, Bro. Higgins) hometeaches a less-active family that we've been trying to contact for ages. We had an appointment scheduled for Tuesday at seven. So we show up with him and no one is home (more likely, no one answered the door). Bro Higgins said let's get some cookies and leave a note. So we went to the store, and decided on a pie, left at the family's door with a note saying "Sorry we missed you, please give us a call to reschedule".

Figuring that would be the end of it for that evening, bro Higgins took us to Wendy's for a frosty. While we were waiting for our food, the family called, thanked us for the pie and invited us over.
So we went and had a great visit. They talked about their conversion story in Mexico, and how they went to such great lengths to go to church. Bro. Higgins did most of the talking on our end, but the Spirit was palpably there. We invited them to come to church. They accepted and prayed that they would be able to do so.
Fast forward to Saturday. We get a text "  BROTHER... I'M SO SORRY... I DON'T THINK WE;RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GO TO CHURCH TOMORROW..."
Long story short, they didn't come to church. It's sometimes frustrating. They know they need to go, they feel the Spirit telling them they need to go, but they don't.

Unfortunately, I'll have to continue the bike analogy next week. Out of time again. I'll work on it beforehand so I can just type it out.

Thanks for the prayers, please write.

Elder Bryce Johns