So I got a new companion as well. His name is Elder Himes. He is from Brigham City. He worked at Maddox. He doesn't have any friends but he doesn't care because his family is more important to him anyways. He has only been out one transfer and he is an English speaking elder. That gives him a grand total of about 2 months since he left home. He still has a lot of new boy pride in him. I have found that there are two types of new missionaries: The Elder Rogers/ Nielson that are under confident, humble, shy and refuse to do things because they might fail or be judged by others. Then there is the Elder Bennett/ Himes group that are just prideful, judgmental, over confident, pessimistic red type of personalities. The only cure for this is to humble them. They refuse to ask for help or take advice. So, you need to let them do things wrong and fall on their face. Then you pick them up and tell them the right way. All this time, you push them and lead by example. Now you know my opinion of him. LOL. He's another Elder Bennett know-it-all. These ones are fun though because they wanna work. The funny things that are different about Elder Himes though are that he doesn't want to lead, and he has a negative/ downer attitude about everything. Always says no even if he's gonna do it. He tries to be witty but he ends up saying a lot of mean hurtful things. He likes to do it in front of members too. I know how to help him though and love him. These red types are so funny. All I get is reds and blues... maybe it's to help me with you :) He's a great kid and he will be a great missionary... he just needs a little bit more training.
Now lets tell you about our investigators. We dropped Jim. He quit reading the Book of Mormon and wouldn't stop flying his toy helicopter around during our lessons. Plus... he wouldn't return our phone calls. So, he is dropped for he moment.
We do have a funny story about our one investigator. Her name is Gena. We were referred to her by some random lady that called up on the phone and wanted to remain anonymous. We went to talk to her and found out that her 45 year old husband had run off with a 24 year old mormon girl. Gena knew that our church doesn't agree with breaking up families and has a lot of respect for the mormon church. Her daughter actually went to girls camp growing up and her two best friends were mormon. Well, Gena wanted us to teach her whole family... husband included. When her husband declined, she told us not to come. I told her to read hat we left her and then give us a call. She said she would, but it had been several weeks and she never called back. I felt prompted to go see her Saturday. When we did, he knew exactly who I was without looking at my name tag. She told me that she had read the scriptures on Friday and was going to call us Monday because she thought that was when we worked. She told us about how her husband Ted was talking with missionaries now. I put two and two together and Ted is being taught by the Vista Ridge Elders and has a date for May 17th to be baptized. Cool, eh? He just called them up and said he wanted to know more. Gena read the chapters and loved them. Wouldn't it be great if both Gena and Ted got baptized and the church brought them back together again? We are pretty sure it was the 24 year old that referred us. Her and Ted are no longer dating. Gena still loves Ted too. So, your new job is to pray for Ted and Gena. It would be so cool to invite Gena to see Ted's baptism.
So Gena is our one investigator, but we are getting a lot done now and I'm sure that more people will start to progress soon. Miracles are going to happen in McNeil. This is going to be a great transfer.
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