I really am grateful for the work and being able to have a companion who builds me up and helps me feel confident in what we have prayed about and worked on in companion study and prayer. Being focused on our Purpose is God's plan of happiness, and everything falls in place in the light of that Purpose, and that Gospel. I'm trying this week to focus on helping our recent convert, 11 year old Vicky, to understand these blessings. I feel like it's really hard, she's quiet and we aren't sure what to talk about with her. Tried getting to know her and have a conversation, and her replies are kinda of sheltered. "what do you like to do?" "nothing", "oh, Okay, umm, hey this picture of your baptism is nice, when was it", "last year" etc...
And so the conversation kind of goes along like that but she just doesn't have a strong desire for anything... we are teaching our investigator Erik, who's 11 as well, and he's losing faith in God and whether or not he exists because of hard circumstances in his life. "why would God not help me with all my problems, isn't he able to?" And so we will teach that next time, but it seems like maybe we could teach in a way that helps the little people too!
Exchanges with Elder Gomez in our area with me were awesome! We had a goal to discover good finding ideas and activities to use in Chinatown, and to find. We didn't find anyone, but we had good experiences where we found that using the pictures of passalongs or holding them in our hands so people can see mad contacting so much different; everyone we talked with took the card and had a conversation with us!