This was an interesting week. President Clark called as on Monday night and had a bit of interesting news. He told us that we were going to be the mission president until he gets back on Saturday. So Elder Hill and I were the Mission President. Well nothing exciting happened during the week that would have cause for a great story, besides that fact. President Clark had a President's Seminar in Instabul, Turkey. It just opened up for missionary work and there are 4 missionaries that just got there to open the place up! They are so excited and they are a huge part of the history of the Church. That's the cool story for this week, (well there are more cool stories from this week, but that's the cool big news for the Church kind of thing).
We had a lot of meetings this week and we taught a lot. So in that sense it was a great week. Jacques is still doing awesome. He knows what he needs to do. He told us again that once he knows, he surrenders to Jesus Christ and will follow him. He just needs to find time to read everyday. He unfortunately couldn't make it to church, but he really wants us to come over to his place so he can make us some Cameroonian food. We are trying to work with to be ready around the 17th of March. This week, we met with another investigator of ours who really wants to be baptized but he has so many fears of people. He knows that he needs to be baptized, and he has a huge desire to help build up Zion by paying tithing, but he has so many steps to make to get to the point. So we sat down with him and read from Ether 12:27. The promise is to him is that when he comes to Christ, he will be shown his weaknesses, and only through humbling himself will his weaknesses become strengths. The other promise that he has is from Joshua 1:9, that the Lord will be with him (after baptism of water and the Holy Ghost) where ever he goes. Be not afraid. We then developed a plan to get him ready for March 10th. Everyday we are going to call him at 11 am to remind him to read the Book of Mormon. On Sundays, we will call him to wake him to go to church. We have set the date with him, and the work begins now. He will be baptized.
A few weeks ago, during the last transfer cycle, we had some missionaries that had to stay in the city and they did some finding here. They found one man named Yuri who we called up. He came to church yesterday with his cousin who both are really interested. They don't have any time this week to meet, except next Sunday, so they plan on coming to church again and want to meet with us. They actually had no idea what our church was or what we believed in, but they showed up, and were really interested. I hope to work with them some more!
Remember that Sergey who is the film program? So we unfortunately haven't been able to get a hold of him. We are planning to call him so more and set up some sort of meeting with him because he is still a little miracle. Things are really growing here! Its' really cool to see. Right now the mission has about 15 baptismal dates and a huge majority of them are for March. We are getting really close with Jacques, and Gennady (who we have a date with for the 10th of March) is on his way. This next month there is going to be a big mission tour from the 2nd Counselor of the Area Presidency of Eastern Europe. So we have to help out with that a little bit, along with transfers, and 6 visa trips... I Officially dubbed this next month "March Madness" in its most literal sense. I will still be an assistant and will be until the end of May. It's really interesting just being involved and responsible for everything. Its really helping me out how to plan ahead and make sure things are up to date and already figured out. I guess I have got no excuse to procrastinate anymore, which I so commonly did.
This was but another great week! I love you all. The Church is true. The ordinance of receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost really is such a blessing to all of us. It's amazing to know that we have a little sidekick where ever we go. If just humble ourselves enough to listen to it, it can take us to such great heights spiritually. It can be our protector, our guide, our friend, our Comforter. The Holy Ghost is yet more proof that God does love us! Those that have taken the covenant of baptism of water and baptism of the Holy Ghost really are blessed in this life, and for eternity. I love it!
Love,
Elder Tekulve
p.s.: On my year mark, we made and ate BURRITOS! MEXICOOO
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