Irony really doesn't like me

Long time readers might remember the ‘one or two’ problems and general incidents of bad luck that have dogged my home teaching efforts.

Things seemed to be improving when I was partnered with Chemistry despite one or two problems ( i.e being given someone to home teach who has since moved back to China). We ended up with a list of three people, two of whom although being brothers we could never get hold of. Leaving us with one person which meant although we can get out home teaching done relatively quickly ( when the elders haven’t pinched him to go out teaching converts) we can only ever get 33% home teaching.

However with a recent spate of baptisms the Elders Quorums presidency needed to assign these converts to some home teachers and as chemistry and I are not exactly blessed with the biggest list they have assigned us two new people. Hurray!

But as you may have guessed things are far from that simple and Irony couldn’t pass up this chance to give me a kicking.

Not only are the two brothers being left on our list ( even though it turns out they have left the ward) the two new people that will be added to our list have been out of contact for sometime and no one has been able to get hold of them. So it looks like we’re going from two unobtainable people to four. Which means out of five people we’re only going to have one we can actually visit, which in turns means no matter how hard we try we’re only going to be able to get 20% home teaching.

That’s assuming the Elders don’t take him at the last moment for teaching as they have done the past two months running.

Mind you this situation is still a vast improvement on the best part of a year and a half I had to wait get a home teaching companion. Although that happened three home teaching companions ago now.

Still I suppose the most important thing is that we still have one person we can home teach and even if we only see him every month that’s still a success.