Hey! So this week wasn't super evenful as far as the
majority of the days are concerned, but towards the end of the week we found a
few people in interesting ways that said that they were interested. Then at
Chruch we had over 40 people in attendance, I know it sounds small but that's
more than I've ever seen in Selmash before and more than I've ever seen on my
mission regardless of where I served. Despite the few individuals who don't
seem to be onboard with the new changes in the branch, we had a good Sunday and
got a lot accomplished, if they choose to continue to act the way they have it
will be their choice and their issue to deal with, our job is just to
fellowship them, not fuel the fire, and be forgiving. Sometimes that can be
pretty difficult, but I'm sure with someone as experience as President
Williams, we can all collectively do it as we heed to his council. I was
translating the whole day it seemed, which was pretty cool. It's a rush to have
your brain just working on 2 tracks at once, and transferring not only the
words but the meaning too. President Williams and his wife both spoke about the
Atonement and forgiveness. The congregation really seemed to enjoy the talk,
and we had multiple inactives show up. This past week or so Elder Cook and I
have called all the inactives on the branch list and let them know about the
new changes and to tell them that the new Branch President would like to meet
them. We had a couple show up to Church, who were brought by another member,
that aren't members that we have the number of now, and our investigator Maxsim
came too. We now have MLS all up-to-date and all the records sent in, we just
have a few more things to do and then everything should be caught up. So to
make things short, it seems that things can really turn around here, and that's
awesome. It's been way too long since things were appearing to make big
improvements. With next Sunday being Easter and all I don't know if I expect a
ton of attendees seeing is many will probably be visited family as some of them
have expressed, but we'll just see what happens. The inactives who came
expressed a deep desire to come to church and their love for the Gospel, they
even payed tithing! So all and all our week turned out to go pretty good. I
love you guys, stay safe and have a great week!
-Elder Skene
Elder Cook
8 year old boy we baptised
Selmash Branch Presidency
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