Very uneventful week. We filled a lot of it with visiting less active members and former investigators. Most everybody we visited either moved or wanted nothing to do with us so that was pretty fun. One former investigator looked through the peephole and locked the door, and one less active told us that she didn't understand anything we were saying because she was completely naked. That's always one of my favorite excuses, haha. On Thursday it rained really hard, so we biked around in the freezing rain doing that for a couple hours, and then we were so cold and so soaked that we decided to just stop at a starbucks and get some hot chocolate and something to eat. I'm sure we were a pretty sorry sight, sitting in that Starbucks dripping wet and shivering like dogs. It was a pretty miserable day up to that point. And then in the Starbucks our phone died, so we had no more GPS to find the rest of the people we were planning on visiting, so we had no idea what to do from that point. After we finished our hot chocolate and warmed up a little, we prayed to figure out what to do. We both felt like we should drop in on one of our investigators, Wataru. He's been reading the Book of Mormon and praying daily, but hasn't felt like he's gotten an answer yet. So we headed over there and said hi. We ended up talking about how to study the scriptures effectively to find answers, and he loved it. He said he'd been wondering about how to do that recently but didn't know how to ask. So it was a really good experience. Then another one of our investigators, Moto, texted us saying he wanted to talk so we met him at the church. He was the one who was supposed to get baptized this Sunday. We had been worried that we were rushing the baptism and he wasn't going to be completely ready, and that's what we ended up talking about that night and he agreed with us so we moved his baptism to this Saturday, a date that the ward, he, and our companionship feel much better about. So the day ended up really well once we gave up on our plan and just relied on the Spirit. That's something I've been trying to do much more recently. I've felt like a lot of our planning lately has been fairly routine and not spiritually guided, and I think our experience on Thursday was a good wake up call to that fact. And once we did start to rely on the Spirit, we started to see miracles. So that was our week. I took zero pictures, and apologize, but I should have a lot next week. Have a good week!

Elder Callahan