Jan 03

Its raining a lot, but it´s better than being hot. 

New Years! A blank sheet, start anew. A time to make goals and look toward the future. A time of extreme amounts of fireworks blowing up all night and people drinking so much that they have hangovers for the next two days and don´t leave their house. Seriously the streets were empty. A perfect time for Investigators to make and keep their commitments, Right? If thats what they wanted to do then yes. We spent all week visiting people and commiting them to come to church on Sunday. The first Fast and Testimony of the year. Only one person we invited actually came and there were only 20 others in the sacrament meeting. I am sick of their excuses.

People don´t even give good excuses. I was asleep was the most common one, but you get up to go to work at 5 in the morning every other day! Don´t feed me crap. Tell me straight do you want us to teach you our message and get baptised or not. Some people use the excuse  I was at my family´s house. Ok I can accept that, but starting next week the excuse ain´t gonna  fly. I´m sick of wasting my time, actually the Lord´s time, on people that don´t really care. And I really don´t want to baptise people that are just going to go inactive either.

We are really trying to work on strengthening the ward. Mostly because our ward is becoming inactive, but also I am selfish and I don´t want to have to look for people to teach if the members can just give us good references. The ward has been through tough times, they lost two bishops in the span of 4 years due to divorce, and only one of them is still active... but just by barely. The ward doesn´t see that it´s a test of faith and obviously Satan is winning because nobody is standing up to him and saying ´I am a strong and faithful follower of Jesus Christ´. We´ll see how things go in the future.

I may seem all angry and bothered in my emails, but really i´m not. I´m just sad that these people could be strong, they just aren´t trying. They all beleive and they all want to do whats right, but something is preventing them. We just need to find out what it is... and Destroy it!!!

Love ya´ll,

Elder Zachary James Singson