New Trainee

June 27, 2016

Hey Y'all,

This week started out with Elder Abel transferring to Rajahmundry, so I was with Elder Semadeni for the day. We were able to teach a guy named Deepak, he owns a  Whey Protein store. He believes in everything, Christianity, Muslim, or Hindu, he believes it all. The next day I flew to Bangalore for the trainers meeting. There about 5 trainers, All of us were American except one. The missionaries coming in had 2 indians, and the rest from the U.S. I was paired up with Elder Shuman who is from Idaho (U.S) and he still has that "new missionary" smell. He came right from the MTC, and didn't visa wait. He enjoys being here, and is just absorbing India for now. We have had some fun together, and get a long pretty well. He reminds me of when I first came to India, and the reactions I had when I got here. When we flew back to our area we got right to work. We only had two days of proselyting and I taught him how to go finding in India. Through our finding efforts we were able to find lots of investigators to teach, and are definitely people the Lord has been preparing for us to find. We have been able to get multiple lessons in with investigators we just met, and all we did was knock on their doors. That didn't happen ever in Rajahmundry. We'll be starting the training program so that Elder Shuman can understand the missionary life style a little better. But Im happy we are companions and should have a great 3 months together!

 Man am I happy Elder Conrad is here! We have had a lot of fun joking and laughing about the "good ole days". It feels weird that he is in my apartment again, but its awesome. He is doing well, and enjoyed the Philippians. My district is fully American :Elder Shuman and I, Elder Semadeni and Conrad. This is gonna be a fun transfer! district meeting and other district activities will be a lot of fun! We hope to see baptisms later this transfer with our investigators, but we'll see. We'll be putting them on a baptismal date this week. Our investigators are:

Krishna: He has family that is members, he talks about the importance of repenting of our sins and purifiying our hearts and says he needs to make a leap of faith towards God, but still refuses a baptismal date. 

Deva : has a cousin that lives in Bangalore and is a member, and tells us he knows what we are sharing is special because we came all the way from the U.s to share it. He also has noticed a big change in his cousins after they joined the church.

Deepak: Believes in everything, has a little girl and wife, he his friends that a members, but doesn't speak a lot of English, but enough

Chintha Family: Knocked on their door, completely understood the Restoration message and the apostasy of the Christ's church after he died, and wants to learn more.

Kranti Family: Has friends that are members, sees a big change in his friend, wants to learn about our church, and how it can change his life, but is too busy to meet with us. 

Have a good week!

Love 

Elder Magnusson