Hey everyone!
Last week was a little bit slow – we’ve been knocking a LOT and we had a lot of lessons lined up, but everyone kept canceling! Which isn’t awesome… but this week will be better!
Tuesday
P-day!! 😁 We started out by waking up early – like as in 5:30 a.m early… That’s even worse than waking up for seminary! We went to go play pickleball at a park near the church, so that was really fun! Elder Hale and I SMOKED the trainers (Elder Balls and Willardson), and it was tons of fun! Also pretty hot! 🔥 We went shopping at Walmart to get our weekly food supplies, and then went to the mall with the whole district, got some Panda Express (my first semi-real Asian food here?) and then just kind of walked around. Yvette dropped us to join an evangelical church (which stinks, but at least she’s finding Christ in her life!) Then we just kind of wrapped up the day by doing laundry, and getting to bed!
Wednesday
Not much happened… We had 6 lessons planned, but most of them fell through… 😭 We got two LMPs (lessons with members participating) in though! One was with Kristina, who is on date. She’s currently 90+ days sober, and is currently trying to get off smoking as well! One was with Nathan, who is also doing pretty well! We taught him the whole restoration of the gospel, and we got to meet one of his daughters named Annabelle! She was really nice, and maybe we can get her baptized too…?? 👀 We then had dinner with the Smith’s (a young couple), who made us pancakes… Sister Smith was really cool! She watches tennis, just like me! And she plays volleyball too! Brother Smith is also awesome, he served his mission in Washington! He also makes some REALLY GOOD PANCAKES! They told us their entire backstory (how they met and such), and we ran a call with Nathan! 📞
Thursday
Not our best day… We had 7 lessons, which ALL fell through… 😠 So, we knocked! A lot… We met with the Macy’s (they were nice enough to invite us over for dinner a few hours before, knowing we didn’t have anyone for dinner…) Brother Macy is the GOAT!!! Literally the greatest ward mission leader ever… So that made the day better! but it was really just a long and painful day of knocking nonstop. However, at the end, I got to do an exchange with Elder Willardson! So we’re together for Friday. Also, Elder Balls gave me the SIM card, so I’m in charge of texting people! And I have been texting friends in our area like CRAZY (for gospel-related purposes of course)!!! Nobody really responds though… Oh well! It’s the effort that counts!
Friday
My saddest day yet. Ok, well the exchange was really fun! Elder Willardson is awesome, and we knocked a lot of doors together. We also talked to this guy with the CRAZIEST story I’ve ever heard. Basically, from what he said: he’s a prophet who got called by Jesus himself in a vision, who ran away because he was scared (like Jonah)… He was then apparently chased by lightning as a punishment by God, and evil spirits were sent to attack him, and so he became an alcoholic to relieve the pain? He then went on a 2-year trial, where he preached the gospel to all the inmates, and so apparently God blessed him by making him not guilty of the crime? And now he preaches to different churches and basically sees if they align with the doctrine of Christ. It was a pretty crazy lesson… Then, my tire popped, so we had to walk to our next lessons. While knocking, we accidentally knocked on a member’s door, but she (Sister Broadbent) needed a blessing of comfort and healing, so it was kind of a miracle we stopped by! ✨️ Thennnnn Esther dropped us. WHICH WAS THE WORST PART OF THE WEEK! 😓 Cause she was like literally the perfect person to work towards a baptism. But, she said she felt too stressed and too open. So that kind of ruined my mood for the rest of the day, and honestly the week too… But then we met with the Macy’s again for dinner, so that was awesome! Like I said, they’re the best. And they’re baby is SO CUTE! Made me excited to have kids! (sadly not for a while though…) Then, in the night, I got Elder Balls back!
Saturday
Better than Friday! We fasted for breakfast and lunch with Elder Hale and Willardson for Nathan and one of their friends to work towards being baptized… We met with Nathan, so that was awesome! We taught him the entire plan of salvation with Brother Pinegar. We also met with this guy named Jay (who we found at the Walmart we went to on Tuesday), who is a wrestling coach! He was already a member, but has been inactive recently… He had all these questions about the gospel (Polygamy, blah blah blah), and we taught him the restoration and answered his questions. We then invited him to come to church! (which is a funny story, more on that later…) Balls and I then played a fun board game called Splendor (I’ve never heard of it, but it’s pretty cool!) We broke our fast with Hale and Willardson at the nearby Wendy’s 🥓 (reminded me of high school days…) Besides that, just a bunch of knocking…
Sunday
A pretty chill day! Met with a lady named María, and while Elder Balls talked to her about the gospel, I distracted her little kids with some magic tricks! Hahaha again, I just love little kids so much, they’re so cute and fun to be around. Then, stake conference! Kristina and Edgar came! Jay also came, and bro is crazyyyy! First off, he’s wearing the craziest fit ever, like a bright blue shirt and this backpack he’s wearing over the front. He gave us some uncrustables 🥪, so that was awesome! He also kinda went around and grabbed all the girls’ numbers that he could find… So that was funny! Also, he’d randomly just start raising his hands and say “hallelujah!” or “Amen!” whenever the speaker said something he liked… Also, after a special musical number from the YSA, he started clapping REALLY LOUDLY and Elder Balls had to quiet him down LOL it was reallyyy awkward. But he’s a really cool guy! Fun to talk to, and really nice. Elder Hale, Willardson, Balls, and I stayed after for a linger-longer! We ate some rock-hard baked potatoes, and we talked a bit to the mission president, President Loo, and his wife! They’re both so nice! They’re from Peru, so they are both learning English! So I’m really trying to work on my Spanish… Duolingo has been revived… We then did some weekly planning, called up some more people, and then had some meetings and did personal study!
Monday
This morning started out AWESOME!! We got 2 referrals overnight, which we called and scheduled appointments with both of them before 8 am! So that’s already 2 new people… then we did our district meeting (i played some gethsemane on the piano)… i also had a lesson with my in-field mentor, and she was really nice! We met with Gale and went through 2 Nephi 2 with her! She had some reallyyy cool insights and we talked about some good questions, like “Does Satan have agency?” We then had dinner at a place called Angie’s (I’ve never heard of it, but it was really good!!) Thennnn a monsoon started, which we had to bike and knock through. We met with a guy named Bobby! He has 2 kids (one was a 3 year-old girl who was SOO CUTE!) We went over the restoration with him and he wants to come to church! Then we did some calls later with Brother Macy!
TLDR
Pretty chill week – lots of effort on our part! But we didn’t really get a lot out of it which stinks… 2 ladies dropped us from baptism and we didn’t get as many new people ad we wanted… but this week is already looking better! So I’m pretty hopeful!
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