Goodbyes and Stress

Dear all of you,

This last week has been (as the title says) a week of Good byes and some little emotional, and mental stress.

So this past week, Mama Vest, her husband Gary, and their son Daniel moved from the Southside of Syracuse to PA for Gary's work and for mama vest to start school. It will defiantly be not the same here with the Vest family gone, but the Lord has truly blessed them for their efforts in both the gospel and for the missionary work over the past few years.

So, now on to real quick before I have to get off the computer, for why I am stressed mentally and emotionally. So, every since I have arrived here in the Northside of Syracuse, Our teaching pool within the first few weeks started decreasing a ton. Nothing that I have done or did, it was the lack of commitment/lack in interest for learning more to the gospel. My companion and I (elder Jackson) have both agreed that these people where more converted to the previous elder than to the message he had to share. Up until today we have dropped over 15 people from our teaching pool and are down to about 5 investigators that we try and teach on a regular basis with only 2-3 of them fully wanting to learn and we are able to meet with currently. Now, for me this has been a reoccurring thing since I have been on my mission. Every area I have been into, except for southside cause we started out with no one, I have come into an are where they are teaching a lot of people and then within a few weeks, people just stop meeting with us and or don't want to learn any more. Sadly president has noticed that recently with in the last transfer and is constantly on my back about how low our numbers are, making sure we are out doing work and tracting, visiting members, and what not.

SO I have come to a delema that I am either a super bad missionary, and I suck at doing missionary work, or people just don't have faith in me and my companion to find people. It has been truly hard to keep up a good spirit when every week president or your zone leaders are on ya for low numbers when they used to be so high.

Ok, that is enough of the "Poor pitty me" Party, Other than that this week has truly been good, we have had a lot of spiritual lessons that we got to teach to a lot of people (mostly members and less actives) and I am excited for this week as we go and try and find new people to help them come closer to christ! 

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Love Ya's! 

-Elder Zenger

 

(ps from mom) SORRY I thought I was only one week behind on the blog!