The big news this week is that President Szabadkai has allowed the use of Facebook for missionary work, so I opened an Elder Gonzalez account. We can use Facebook in very limited circumstances, for example, our Facebook friends can only be local members or investigators.
Canadian Thanksgiving was on Monday. The Howells invited us and we ate American pancakes with maple syrup and bacon. It was very delicious. The atmosphere was very Canadian!
We had a lot of lessons this week with our investigators. With our Italian investigator we talked more about our faith but could not watch the restoration movie because his TV did not work properly. We read from Alma 32 with another investigator and we talked about how we can strengthen our testimony by prayer, scripture reading, and attending church. With a third investigator we held a shorter conversation about prayer and we challenged him to pray every night and read from the Book of Mormon. We also taught a recent convert about family history and temples, and I gave her a temple recommend for which she was very pleased.
We visited a part-member family member this week and read together President Eyring's message in the Liahona and discussed how we can be true disciples of Christ. The dad made homemade sausage and they were very delicious. I played chess and darts with the son, and I played chess with Elder Szuch this week too.
Our new investigator came from Uganda, and he used to meet with the sisters long ago. He has lived in Békéscsaba for a long time. His wife is Hungarian and he’s fluent in English, Hungarian, in some African languages, and speaks a little Russian. (He met his wife in the Soviet Union.) We talked to him about the Book of Mormon and the Bible, since his big question was what makes our church different from other Christian churches.
I had a one-day split with Elder Howell this week. I made a map showing where members live and a booklet, and we visited some of the less-active members of the branch.
Have a great week,
Elder Gonzalez
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