This has been a crap week. It's probably the most frustrating and disheartening week I've ever had. We had a lot of potential for this week, we worked hard the week before and set up a lot of visits with a lot of new people. Every single one of them cancelled. We had like 12 or so lessons set with people, and only 2 of them held their appointment. Every single one of them cancelled. This area is dead, there's no work going on here. We still have some names of people to go try, our wards (or 2 of them) have been pretty good about supplying us with names of go visit, but we're down to contacting and tracting. This area is dead and it's gonna take a lot of hard work to revive it. It's not gonna be fun, we're pretty tired of contacting and all these cancelled appointments, but I guess that's how it goes.
We also might be losing one of our investigators. The only 1 who has a baptism date, and she might be moving to Nampa unless she can find a place here in Payette.

But the one contact that did keep their appointment was good. It's a family of 4, and we were excited for that. There was a possibility of 2-4 new investigators depending on the ages of the kids. We're glad they held their appointment, as they said they were gonna feed us dinner too. We go and find out the parents are both already members, just less active, and the kids are 7 and 5. It was kind of a bummer that there was no new investigators outta that visit, but it was a good visit. They've both been less active for a while and want to start coming back to church. We need to start at square one, they don't really have a knowledge of the gospel, but we're the right ones to talk to about that. They're awesome people, I hope we can help them.

There's not much else to say about this week. Lots of cancelled visits, disappointments, and hardships. Every month I've identified an attribute I wanna work on and a scripture associated with it, March is "optimism" with a verse in Alma 4 "... nevertheless the spirit of the Lord did not fail him". I think it's fitting for what's going on here. I'm working to have the optimism to work through all the disappointments. This is my hardest area, it's def trying me. Hopefully I can keep up the strength, patience, and faith to keep working through the disappointments.

Take care!

Elder Blomquist