Hey peoples!!
‼️This is the final week before transfers‼️ Overall it’s been another great finding week, and we’re really making some huge progress with Nathan, which is SO AWESOME!!
Tuesday
P-day!! Started out playing lots of volleyball at the church. It was SO fun!! I really missed playing volleyball a lot back at home so it’s nice to play here! Our recent convert Shawn came too, so he made it even more fun! We played some 4 square too, been a while since I played that!! We then went back to the apartment, Balls gave both of the zone leaders haircuts! Shortly after, went back to the church building. Talked to home, played some board games and card games, then went to Chipotle with the district! (My first time at chipotle! Imo way overhyped… very expensive and its not even like that good…) we then gave a blessing to a lady in the ward and made some calls!
Wednesday
AWESOME day! Started out with zone council… then we made some lunch and hit p-study! We talked to a lady named Katt, who lost her dog up in the mountains… she was raised catholic and talked A LOT! We wanted to put her on baptism date, but she literally just wouldnt let us talk! Hahaha… Had a lesson with Nathan, and we threw away EVERYTHING! All his alcohol, beer, cigarettes, all the bad stuff. I’m so proud of that guy, he’s now 2 weeks away from being baptized! We then had dinner with a senior couple named the Scotts… they were super nice, and fed us pulled-pork sandwiches and fries! Brother Scott is the stake patriarch and a sealer in the temple, so it was cool to talk to him about his experience! Then we stopped by our friend Jim, who’s been really sick from the fever… poor guy!
Thursday
Pretty good day! We found 4 people, all through calls! I am 100% it is the most efficient and effective way to find! We then knocked on a lady’s door (her name was Jane), she was super sweet, and showed us a video of angels singing on the earth?? Idek but like she seemed so convinced that it was real… we just like stood there at her doorstep as she showed us this 5 minute video that sounded like a choir of Ariana grandes singing a hymn with this AI image in the background. We then ran calls with Brother Horn… invited a lot of people to church! We then hit up some volleyball with Shawn again, so that was awesome! We were gonna exchange with the YSA elders but couldnt since their car got towed… poop!
Friday
Started out with an apartment inspection with the Maxfields… then we started knocking for a little bit at the greenwaters complex. We talked to the same preacher/prophet/idk guy (the one who loves to bash missionaries) as last time, and he like got up in my face and told me that im evil cause I had a girlfriend? And how i wasnt being Christlike?? He was then like “im 41 years old, and I was messing around and still aint got a wife! You wanna end up like me?” And I was thinking like “heck no bro i dont wanna be like you harassing kids 😭” and then he started calling me the n word and i was like actually so baffled… my favorite part in the bible was when Jesus started calling people the n-word! Idek but like he was so close to my face I thought he was gonna give me a little smooch! Genuinely i dont get what this guy’s problem is with kids trying to preach a message about Jesus Christ… But anyways we just kinda walked away and kept knocking doors! We checked up on Nathan to see how he was doing… pretty good! Although he was shaking a lot… i guess thats what happens when you completely go cold turkey…
Saturday
Pretty mid day… we went knocking for a bit and didn’t find anyone. We then had some lessons – one was with Nathan again! We started watching the BOM videos with him! We then went to Raisin Canes. Then we called this veteran lady who started breaking down about how her entire life was falling apart financially, romantically, religiously, every -ly… she said she felt like she was getting crucified… yikes… so we invited her to church…? And she said she’ll try to come. Then we went contacting and knocking more… also, because Jim was still feeling sick, I decided to give him a large bag of popcorn along with a feel-better note at his front door! Feel bad for him…
Sunday
A super good day! First off, in sacrament meeting, I played gethsemane on the piano… so that was really fun! I then taught the gospel principles class on prayer! Samuel, Shawn, and one of the hermanas’ friends were there! We did some weekly planning then headed over to ward council… literally as soon as we got to the church, my rear bike tire exploded… im getting two-tired (haha get it) of this. So we had to get a ride from ward council to our dinner (with the Leigh’s, a very nice family!!), and then from dinner back to our apartment… we then had the mission-wide zoom meeting, and that was it for the day!
Monday
Pretty awesome day! First off, went to the nearby bike repair shop… got a new tire, and put slime in both tires so that leaks won’t affect it as bad! Then, we went to eat at Culver’s, then did district council! After, I helped set up empty nesters with Brother Maxfield, the GOAT! Then, it started monsooning like I’ve NEVER SEEN BEFORE! Like for 30 straight minutes, sheets of rain pouring down! It was like seattle on steroids… we ran some calls inside the church… then we had the empty nesters activity! It was a sister’s 99th birthday, and she was just the SWEETEST lady ever!! It was a surprise birthday party for her, and she like started tearing up and saying how much it meant to her. You could just tell that everybody loved her. Shawn and Samuel came to the activity too! Samuel brought his friend named Kyle who just got out of 3 years in jail THIS MORNING! and he wants to come to church! LETS GOO!! He was genuinely such a cool guy to talk to!
TLDR
Very productive week! Nathan got off his addictive substances, we found 13 more people, and we’re getting progress with all of our friends!! We hope to put some more people on date this upcoming week!
See you next week!!
Elder Andrew Hyun
