Another One

 Lets just break the ice here real quick, ya boy has been called to train again so thats lit. Im training a kid named Elder Smart, bros a capooo, straight outta Tennessee, lives up to his last name bro is mad smart haha(he read the old testament before the mish) and I love the kid to death. Theres something about training, it just gives you an immense amoumt of love for your trainee, if its anything like being a father im sure gonna love my kids

This week was very close to being the greatest week of my life. Welp to start the week, on Tuesday we put 6 PEOPLE on date for baptism, it was nuts, then on thursday we put 3 MORE on date for baptism. So lets just say when I picked up Elder Smart I was hype, I was like bro we got 9 people on date lets go work, then saturday came...

So saturday, its the first day of Elder Smart working, and all of our appointments started to fall. All those people on date, we couldn't find. It wasn't until 5 in the afternoon when we found some of our people. We found Mariela (this grandma) and her grandson Teo. We put them on date on Tuesday and they were ELECT, they were committed to getting baptized the 25th and going to church on sunday. So we had a reallt good lesson and they were COMMITTED to go to church on Sunday, so we left there house on saturday feeling good about them

Then we still couldn't find some of our friends and then at 7 at night, Mariela sends us a text saying she didn't want to get baptized or go to church and didn't want us to come back, I was like bruhhhh, so we ran to their house, knocked on the door, and out came Mariela..but this time with her sister who I had never seen before. And immediately I knew what had happened, so i confronted the sister and it was exactly what I had expected, she was this SUPER evangelical women, just started bashing on our church, called us a false church with a false bible, then said Mariela wasn't getting baptized in our church. I'm like bruh shes 50 years old you can't control the lady. And before she let me talk she said "bye" and walked away and took Mariela into her house... I just looked at her and said "you're taking the salvation away from your sister how do you feel" and she closed the door in my face

I was straight FUMING, I was so upset, and as I'm walking away I close my eyes and think "Elder Clouse you're training, show your kid a good example", so i took a deep breath looked at Elder Smart, apologized for how I reacted and said lets go look for a miracle. And it wasn't until 8 at night on saturday that we found one...

We then passed by Carolina, this women who accepted a baptismal date on Thursday that we couldn't find again, but we found her! We also found her kid who was 13 and put him on date for baptism too! And then we found her niece who wanted to go to church with them on Sunday! Then Carolina (the mom) asked if her other kid, who was 18, could come to church and be baptized with them, we said of course! So we made plans to go to church with them...all was well, until Sunday morning. So turns out the "18 year old kid" wasn't as friendly as the rest, because he got heated when I came banging on the door at 7 am on sunday, so lets just say we got yelled at and told not to come back

So after putting 11 people on date, no one of them came to church, but I told Elder Smart "it means we gotta work harder", so sunday afternoon we left, passed by an active member, because half her family aren't members, and the other half are inactive. We passed, had a CRAZY spiritual lesson and put the active member's nephew on date for baptism! The field continues being white and ready to harvest!

But wow it was a crazy week, not gonna lie being a DL and a trainer is taking a lot out of me. But grateful that God trusts me enough to give me these responsibilities! Love yall!