TLDR
This week has been pretty solid! Work has been going REALLY well! We found 29 people last week and a lot of them are super solid! 🤯 We got bashed for a long time and got followed around, so that sucked… we also got in contact with a lady who has burned Book of Mormons and said our church is devilish? 😬😬 And she wants to come to church? Eek…
Tuesday
SUPER FUN P-DAY! Started out with the usual – pickleball in the morning, and volleyball after! We then went home and chilled for a bit… did laundry and all, talked to a bunch of people from home! We then went thrifting for a bit, then went to ESCARCEGA FOR DINNER!! 🤑🤑 The GOAT of all time! He fed us some Pork loin along with mashed potatoes, with jamica juice and tres leches that was SO buss! 😋 So anyways we chilled at his house for the evening, perfect way to end the night if you ask me! Roberts then stayed over for the night, since we’re running an exchange! 😁
Wednesday
Great day!! Exchange day – so I was with Elder Roberts! We were in my area, so i got to lead! We found a bunchhh of people just talking around and knocking… 🚪 we also had a bunch of lessons! We had one with Syrena – we tried to push baptism again but she avoided, again! 😫 Oh well… we talked about the power of prayer! We then had a lesson with our friend on James – pretty short visit, but we just told him we hoped to see him at church! He’s on date for baptism, but just needs go attend church! 😠 We also met with a lady named Tina after – she was a Marshallese Protestant mom who wanted her children to learn about our religion since she wanted her children to have Jesus in their life! 😇 We then had a lesson with Nathan (baptism boy) where we watched the Christofferson talk about gambling… he didnt know gambling wasnt allowed so it was good for him! 🎰 We then had the Scott’s for dinner, who fed us pulled-pork sandwiches and fries! We also ran a bunch of calls after that! 📞 Then, we rode to the church and exchanged with the Elders!
Thursday
Pretty awesome day!! First, we knocked around at a complex, then had a LOT of lessons! We had one with Brenda and Mike, which was longggg (like 2 hours)… Sister Figueroa was there too and she helped us teach! I mean, only 20 minutes of it was actul teaching, the rest was Brenda talking HAHAHA! 😆 We went through the Plan of salvation and watched a conference talk with them as well! We then gave Brenda a blessing for her health, and Mike started crying! 🥹 So that was so powerful! We then went by Gale (our recent convert), and we’re gonna try to start teaching her grandson, Nehimih! He already attends church every Sunday, and he’s 11, so we just need to work with him! 🌊 We then made some MASSIVE burritos at home for dinner, then went and played volleyball with Shawn, Nathan, and his daughter! 🏐 (It was Nathan’s birthday, yay!!) 🎉
Friday
Started out with zone council, where we talked about sharing restored truths according to people’s needs! It was fun to role-play and all! Then we got lunch at Wendy’s, then headed over to see Syrena! We got her to promise to come to church, and told her we’d get her a ride there! There was a CRAZY dust storm, so biking as terrible but we pushed through! 🚲😫 I was also feeling sick too so that wasnt helping… we then went bus flowing for a bit, which unfortunately didnt work out too well… but after that we went by an inactive member named Emily Smith, who had some questions about the gospel related to baptism and polygamy! Classic. We answered them and she seemed pretty content! We then ran some calls!
Saturday
What a great day! We started out talking to a lady named Lori… she’s vaping, and she REALLY wants to get off of it… so we told her we can help her with that! And along with that, she wants to come to church! ⛪️ So yay! We also met with this guy named Anthony who had some questions for us. He talked about suicide and what that meant for the afterlife… he also talked about tattoos and piercings and if thats allowed… it was super cool to see his story with faith! 🙏 He’s not coming to church, but it was SUCH a good and respectful conversation! Then we went by this Marshallese family who confirmed to come to church! (The mom only speaks Marshallese, so we had to Google Translate a little bit..)
Sunday
BEST SACRAMENT ATTENDANCE YET! We had 6 friends come! 3 of which were from a Marshallese family we’re teaching…1 was Syrena, our progressing friend! We had Gale’s grandson there as well, and then another guy named Kevin Karnes! Nathan unfortunately didnt come, even though we knocked his door right before church and also called him a million times… there was also cigarettes all over the ground in front of his door… gah!! 😫 Anyways, after that we went over to deliver this lady named Kat a package from her apartment office! For context – we tried contacting all our red dots (people who we’re NOT supposed to contact), and even tried emailing them. 🔴 Kat was a red dot since she has in the past burned book of Mormons and told missionaries they’re of the devil. 😬 She responded to our email though and said she’s changed and wants to come back to church! She’s been sick, so we delivered a package for her (a new SIM card) since her phone isnt working… along with that, we gave her some chocolate too and a little written note! 🍫 She also packed up 2 bags of groceries that she wanted to give to us as a thank you! It was awesome! Till we realized they were all expired… the thought was there tho! We then visited Danny (our friend from a longggg time ago), since he’s been going through a tough time – his best friend had a collapsed lung, and his sister was hospitalized from a car accident. 😞 Then we planned and ran some calls!
Monday
Very fun and interesting day – also sucked! First of all, called all of our friends! Then, district council! After district council, we split off – I went with Elders Hale and Roberts! WHICH WAS SO FUN! Until we knocked on the first door. This guy goes – “you know you’re in a cult, right?” Hale and I looked at each other like oh boy… 😭😭 so he bashes us for 20 minutes, and then eventually we’re like okay sir have a great day! – and leave him. Then he comes out of his house and follows us around while we find! Look at the videos 😂 It was just soooo dumb and so annoying, cause every time someone opened their door he’d be like “DONT LISTEN THIS IS A CULT!” 🤬 Luckily we all split up so we were still able to find 10 people there, but it was not fun. Then, the Figueroa’s fed us for dinner (some tacos!) 🌮 Then we exchanged back!
Byeeeeeeee
Elder Andrew Hyun
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