Enchiladas and Chiggers.
Those two words basically sum up this week. I got mauled by chiggers and we were fed enchiladas 4 times... Out of 7. It was just funny when we would turn the corner into people's kitchen and see enchiladas again and again, I wonder if they planned it; I bet they did, well, other than that this week was slow.
Tuesday, we began entering the entire area book full of investigators who are being taught and who used to be taught, for the last 5 years into the IPads. The church has a system so it will all be input online now which I believe will help the work, but for now we have had to take 2 hours every day of this week to enter the info in and we are still not done. So we did that, then we went and helped an older lady move some furniture around in her house and then listened to her for a little before going to dinner. After dinner we visited with the investigators we have on date.
Wednesday, we did a bit of studies with the old woman we helped move furniture around the day before, she showed us a really great talk by Cleone Skouson about the Atonement and we discussed it, it really put it into a deep perspective, but Cleone Skouson always talks about deeper stuff. Then we once again, worked on entering the information into the area book for a few hours. Then we tried to contact a few people before we had dinner with a really cool family that just moved in a few weeks ago; and the enchilada fest began... Then we went and visited with a Chinese man we began teaching, he's from China and struggles to believe in God so he's a little more difficult to get to.
Thursday, we worked on the area book planner again, then we tried to visit a few less active members we were suggested to visit. We didn't have much success. So we went to our dinner appointment’s house. Well, both being new and only having the ward roster and a GPS, we went to the listed address, nobody was there, so we called the best member ever, Sister Young -who feeds us if we don't have food, she said come over then we got a text from the family who was going to feed us telling us that the husband needed to leave so they could just make us some to go... Turns out they moved and didn't change their address in the roster, but like everybody knew that they moved, everybody, that it is, except the two new missionaries in town. Haha, so we grabbed the food to go from them and went and ate at Sister Young's house because the food was ready there. After that we once again visited our oriental friend and had a very powerful lesson in which he refused to accept what we were saying.
Friday, we had a district meeting and interviews with the President. The trainings in District Meeting were on talking with everyone and the need for/overcoming the fear of: failure. I gave the one on failure. The interviews were good but took forever (President and Sister Vest both mentioned the confidence they have in me which I appreciated and President Vest said that he saw in me a great amount of power and love; that's good, that's exactly what I want people to feel around me.) Then after all those we went and had dinner with our 3 investigators on date, she made Enchiladas but she is Hispanic so they were AMAZING, seriously the best I've ever had!!! Then they made us Tres Leches, which is a cake that soaks in 3 types of milk: evaporated, sweetened condensed, and some Spanish one dulce something, but OH MY.... needless to say, it was an amazing meal. Then we went and visited with a less active man who talked our ears off, that's where the chiggers came into play I believe.
Saturday, we worked on the area book again for a while to catchup from Friday, then we had a lesson with the Chinese investigator, Mr. Li, no I'm not racist, that's his ACTUAL last name. In this lesson we solely talked about the Hope of the Gospel. We realized that's what it will have to be for him, he needs hope and happiness in his life, and we need to show him how the gospel brings hope and happiness. Then we went to dinner, where we ate Enchiladas... surprise, surprise #3peat. Finished by working on updating the ward roster with who's active and not.
Sunday, our three investigators who are set for baptism this Saturday, the 29th, came a little late, but came. For Sunday School we helped teach the 16-17 year olds how to really teach others about eternal marriage, but we ended up just telling them why we need to stand up for marriage and protect its sanctity; I realized that this year will, without a doubt, be the hardest for members of the church in school to defend marriage, the youth need to respect others’ opinions but never falter in theirs, people have the right to believe what they want, don't let it offend you, just focus on never falling away yourself. Priesthood was on the talk "Truly Good and without Guile", one of my favorite talks from Conference. After church, the members will usually feed us lunch, guess what we had?!?! Tacos, nope, enchiladas #4peat; surprisingly enough though, no enchiladas this week were gross, I was super impressed. After dinner we worked more on updating the ward roster for a while. After that we had dinner with the family who fed us on Saturday night as well, that family, the Rae's, have taken great care of us, they always seem to feed us twice in a row; plus, a fun fact, their two sons are going up to BYU on Thursday. After that we did some weekly planning.
Well, this week is going to be STRESSFUL!!! We have to set up a baptism for Mary, Marcee, and Stephanie Saturday that we have nothing for, but on P-Day, we shall ball, then we can be distressed for the upcoming schedule. I hope everyone is doing well, I love you guys all, have a great week!
Seth
P.S. Something cool about Sedalia is that... ITS THE HOME OF SCOTT JOPLIN
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Week 32 - Sedalia
This week was disappointing, but good.
Tuesday, we did our studies, then we ran around town trying to visit people that were referred to us. We met with an older lady, who is a member of the ward who served a mission in Adam Ondi Ahman and she always gives the missionaries a little presentation on it, concerning its history and future this time she just had us running around town trying to fix a remote control for a chair of hers, she is very OCD so every time we go over she needs something fixed but it's no problem. After that, we went to dinner with an awesome couple in the ward who, have raised their family here so a lot of the ward is related, but this was the parents of all the kids, they were really cool people. But after dinner we went to some investigators who last week, but they didn't open the door, they tried to hide from us, but the dad and I ended up in a dead lock for a second before he darted behind a wall in hopes that I didn't see him.... Nope, I definitely did buddy, pretty funny/awkward/frustrating but that's how it goes. After that we had an appointment with some investigators on date for, nor, the 29th of August.
Wednesday, we tried a few people before having to go to Marshall for a baptismal interview, that took a good chunk of time, so after that we rushed to our dinner appointment with a really cool family, after dinner we had set up a soccer game with the young men and had two people promise us they would be there, turns out, both flaked on us, another disappointment, but there was a nonmember there anyways so we played with them and talked to the kid, he wasn't interested but it was definitely fun to play!
Thursday, we had a lesson with an investigator about the Book of Mormon, turns out she would be on board to investigate, but her husband might not be so thrilled, so not much we can do there. We then visited the old member in the ward from Tuesday and she taught us a little about Adam Ondi Ahman. then we helped a family move a friend of theirs, and by move I mean: clean and pack a friend of theirs. Our dinner got dropped off at the church so we ate their while preparing for a little Book of Mormon class the old Elders set up about the Doctrine of Christ: Faith, repentance, baptism, the Holy Ghost, enduring to the end; in the scriptures.... Unfortunately we do a terrible job of inviting people because nobody came haha, but we did have an appointment that night, but unfortunately they rescheduled for the next day.
Friday, we had a zone training where the whole zone gets together in Warrensburg, where the zone leaders are, and we get trained on things. This time it was about the new 'phase' with the iPads, where we will now do all of our planning on them and use them to keep records of who we teach. That took the entire morning basically, then we went and ate lunch with some Elders out in Tipton, Rodgers and Fastje (pronounced faw she). After that we went and worked on trying to update the ward roster with active and less active members with a member who has been here for a while. After that we went to dinner with another great family, this ward is full of great people, and after dinner we went to an appointment and watched The Testaments with some investigators.
Tuesday, we did our studies, then we ran around town trying to visit people that were referred to us. We met with an older lady, who is a member of the ward who served a mission in Adam Ondi Ahman and she always gives the missionaries a little presentation on it, concerning its history and future this time she just had us running around town trying to fix a remote control for a chair of hers, she is very OCD so every time we go over she needs something fixed but it's no problem. After that, we went to dinner with an awesome couple in the ward who, have raised their family here so a lot of the ward is related, but this was the parents of all the kids, they were really cool people. But after dinner we went to some investigators who last week, but they didn't open the door, they tried to hide from us, but the dad and I ended up in a dead lock for a second before he darted behind a wall in hopes that I didn't see him.... Nope, I definitely did buddy, pretty funny/awkward/frustrating but that's how it goes. After that we had an appointment with some investigators on date for, nor, the 29th of August.
Wednesday, we tried a few people before having to go to Marshall for a baptismal interview, that took a good chunk of time, so after that we rushed to our dinner appointment with a really cool family, after dinner we had set up a soccer game with the young men and had two people promise us they would be there, turns out, both flaked on us, another disappointment, but there was a nonmember there anyways so we played with them and talked to the kid, he wasn't interested but it was definitely fun to play!
Thursday, we had a lesson with an investigator about the Book of Mormon, turns out she would be on board to investigate, but her husband might not be so thrilled, so not much we can do there. We then visited the old member in the ward from Tuesday and she taught us a little about Adam Ondi Ahman. then we helped a family move a friend of theirs, and by move I mean: clean and pack a friend of theirs. Our dinner got dropped off at the church so we ate their while preparing for a little Book of Mormon class the old Elders set up about the Doctrine of Christ: Faith, repentance, baptism, the Holy Ghost, enduring to the end; in the scriptures.... Unfortunately we do a terrible job of inviting people because nobody came haha, but we did have an appointment that night, but unfortunately they rescheduled for the next day.
Friday, we had a zone training where the whole zone gets together in Warrensburg, where the zone leaders are, and we get trained on things. This time it was about the new 'phase' with the iPads, where we will now do all of our planning on them and use them to keep records of who we teach. That took the entire morning basically, then we went and ate lunch with some Elders out in Tipton, Rodgers and Fastje (pronounced faw she). After that we went and worked on trying to update the ward roster with active and less active members with a member who has been here for a while. After that we went to dinner with another great family, this ward is full of great people, and after dinner we went to an appointment and watched The Testaments with some investigators.
Saturday, we had our correlation meeting, then we ate lunch fast before having a lesson with some of our investigators. Then Elder Conley had been asked to speak in sacrament but they didn't give him his topic, so we got a message with his topic, which was Elder Ballards talk from this last Priesthood session, so Elder Conley decided to take some time and prepare his talk. After he felt prepared enough we went out and tried to visit some people, and we got dropped by and investigator from the past Elders, sad day. Then we had dinner with another great family who's son got got home from his mission in Hungary; maybe a little more exotic than Missouri haha. But after that we visited with an awesome guy CL Henke, he's not a member but he loves the Elders, so we love him too! Haha
Sunday, church was good, it's at 9 here whereas it was 1 in Liberty. But we didn't have the 3 investigators at church we wanted!!! But we did have a nice Chinese man who came on his own so we visited with him and set an appointment to go see him, he claims he's a man of science and that's the conflict he sees win religion, but he would love to find God in his life, I'm pumped to visit with him! Anyways, Elder Conley gave a sweet talk about preparing for a mission, Sunday school was about work. Priesthood was about the importance of the Elderly. After church we had lunch, the members here feed the Elders, and I think Sisters, lunch after church, with the same family who fed us on Saturday night. Well after that we tried to visit quite a few people and our dinner canceled on us, so we called Brother H. and he said he'd feed us, he said to call whenever we didn't have a meal. But anyways, we drove around forever only to find incorrect addresses and nobody home... Too bad. But we now know where people don't live, so we are making progress. Well, after a being just disappointed, we walked around downtown Sedalia with the hopes of talking to people.... Only problem, nobody was there, everyone was at the Missouri State Fair that's hosted in Sedalia. Well, our walking around turned into a bit of a scenic walk, then a photo shoot after about 30 minutes of seeing nobody, pictures will be attached. Then we had dinner with Bro H., he's an amazing guy, he played professional basketball in the ABA for the Kansas City team because he tried out on a whim, then he quit a few months in because it wasn't his thing... Not many people who could say that haha, but after dinner we came home and did our weekly planning which we failed to get done one Thursday.
This week was full of disappointment, but we will just keep working. Life is good here in Missouri, we are loving the work, even with the let downs, we love it all. I hope everyone is doing good at home and hope you know that I love you guys!! Have a great week!
Seth
Week 31 - Seth's first transfer
Hey family! This week has been stressful for sure, but we made it! Haha
So Tuesday we went and did Mormon.org with Lib 1; we spent a decent
amount of time with the, this day, we also went to lunch with them as
well, because Elder Wininger went home this transfer, so we knew he
was leaving on Thursday at transfers. Well, on the note of transfers,
I thought I might stay to finish training Elder Anderson, but I had
spent 4 transfers in Liberty, so about 6 months; so really, I had no
idea what was going to happen. Well, while driving with the Lib 1
Elders, we received a call from President Vest, in which he asked me
to be a District Leader in Sedalia. So I thought I was just going to
serve there with one of the Elders that was there already, it made
sense. Well, I knew I was leaving; it was extremely bitter sweet. We
had dinner with the P. family that night, that was the hardest
goodbye for sure. After dinner, we went to the church where mutual was
going on so we went to say goodbye to a few people there, then went
and said goodbye to the G. family. Then the transfer call came, and
I was of course going to Sedalia, but I was training a new missionary,
with no warning ahead of time!! Haha, so that was a little stressful
to find out that I was going into a white washed area to be a training
district leader, but Elder Anderson was going to stay in Liberty and
finish being trained by Elder Gravit I believe is the name.
Wednesday, we went to lunch with Lib 1, then packed a little before
heading to dinner, with the Farnsworth family. After dinner we went
and started saying goodbye to people before we had to run to
Independence for a baptismal interview (which of course the sisters
scheduled the day before transfers instead of later so right in the
middle of saying goodbye I had to drive 20+ minutes to Inde, do the
interview, and drive back. Anyways, then we said goodbye to a few more
people before going to the house to finish packing.
Thursday was transfers. So we woke up and loaded the car before.
Driving to Independence for breakfast at McDonalds with a bunch of
missionaries right before transfers. Then we went to transfers where I
met my new companion, Elder Conley from Sandy, Utah; he's Spanish
speaking as well and he is super well prepared already. Anyways, so we
got together and, being two new missionaries in the area, we had a lot
of luggage so we spent a solid 30 minutes trying to Tetris everything
in the car haha, but we got it, even if Elder Conley had to hold a box
on his lap for the about hour and a half drive. Haha, well then we
unpacked everything and set up, which took a while but we went and
tried to find the Bishops house but he wasn't home, so we went to
dinner. After dinner tried the Bishop again and found out we had the
wrong address all along so we finally went and found the Bishop and
met his family and got some names to visit from him, so, we had a
start!!
Friday, we played some basketball in the morning with some guys at a
catholic school because a member of our church invited us. Then we did
studies and after lunch, Elder Conley set up his IPad, then we went
around trying to visit people. Then we ate dinner at home since we
didn't have dinner that night. And then, while searching for some
members the Bishop asked us to go see, we met two new investigators so
we were making some sort of progress haha.
Saturday, we had missionary correlation meeting in the morning, after
which we went and helped a man move an organ and a couch upstairs in
their house.... But they gave us donuts so it was okay. Haha then we
changed before visiting an investigator who is set to be baptized.
Later we went around visiting less active and active
members the Bishop gave us to visit. For dinner we went to the wedding
reception of a young man from the Ward and his bride, the food was
good. we left early to go to an appointment which fell through so we
came back and went with a member to visit a man he knew.
Sunday, we went to Ward council, then it was church. So in church the
sisters had told us that there was a Spanish gospel principles class
that it was our responsibility to teach, so we were a little nervous.
But sacrament was about keeping the sabbath day holy, which is the
churches biggish right now. Then we went to the Spanish class with the
intent of teaching and, turns out, the sisters were joking, there was
a teacher already there, which was a HUGE relief. The lesson was on,
again, keeping the sabbath day holy. Then we went with the young men
who had a lesson on dating. After that we went and tried to visit an
excommunicated member, but he wasn't home so we went and visited with
a member who has been in the area for a while who told us some very
useful information. Then went back and had a really good visit with
this excommunicated member who said that he and his fiancé might come
next week and we set an appointment with them for Saturday. Then we
had dinner with a really cool family in the Ward, the D. family. Then we
visited with M. and two of her children: M. and A.. M,
M. and another daughter S. are all on date for the 22 of
August; and A. has been super hesitant but he visited with us and
we had n EXTREMELY powerful lesson so we will see how it goes from
here with him.
Anyways, that's it for this week! Sedalia is fantastic! I truly love
the people and the work here is going well, I can tell I'm going to
the love my time here for sure! Love you all tons, have a great week!
Seth
Week 30
This week has been good. We gave the car up this week because the
mission lost a certain number of cars and our zone lost one, which put
us from a two weeks with and one week without to a one week with one
week without so we will have the car this next week.
Tuesday, we walked around and were able to visit with a less active
man and his wife, they aren't really interested but are extremely nice
and willing to let us come over any time we want, they are really cool
people. After that we went to dinner with a super cool family which
have two young men. That night after dinner we rode with the two boys
to young men's where they had a tennis tournament which we played in,
it was really fun. I took 2nd place, tennis is way harder than it
looks haha.
Wednesday, we had district meeting, Elder Anderson trained on Hope,
another Sister who came out this last transfer, Sister Moss, trained
on Patience, and I trained on being compassionate; it was a really
good meeting. After the meeting we got a ride home from a member who
asked us to go help a lady move from our Ward, so we went there and
ended up taking way longer than we thought so, we were supposed to
have dinner with the Propst but instead we ,et them at the church
where they were having interviews with the Bishop. They brought dinner
for us to eat there. After that we helped put together some packages
that we are giving to the ward today filled with things for them to
pass out to their friends and some things for them to keep themselves:
a Book of Mormon, pass along cards, family a proclamation, etc.
Thursday, we went and visited a less active lady, she just needs
someone to talk to and we share a thought and offer service, then we
had a lesson with an investigator that went well, but we area little
worried to whether or not he is actually interested or not; then we
got a ride over to dinner. At dinner the family had some friends from
Utah and the dad just talked about his mission the entire time, it was
a little annoying... After dinner we got a ride back home and started
preparing for our Ward correlation and at the last minute found out it
was canceled.
Friday, we had a mid training meeting. The training program for new
missionaries is 12 weeks long and being 6 weeks in there has usually
been a huge conference call with everyone being trained, but this time
there was a meeting, because of how large the group is, 27, so they
would rather do that than have 30+ phones in on one conference call.
So the meeting is just to see how the training is going. After lunch we got
home about 2:30ish and we weekly planned. After we weekly planned we
got a ride to our dinner appointment with a less active family who has
been coming to church now for a little over a month. Then we walked to
try and visit a part member family we are working with and we got in and taught them the
third lesson, which is about the gospel of Jesus Christ. Then we
walked back to the family we had dinner with and they drove us home.
Saturday, we wanted to do service for a member who is going through a
bit of a rough spell right now, we we went and used another members
lawn mower to mow his lawn while he wasn't home. Then we had to clean
up the grass shavings with a different members rake, so all in all it
took about an hour and a half to two hours to do. After we were
exhausted so we walked home and changed and relaxed for a little while
doing some studies. Then we decided to walk around and try visiting a
few potentials and less active members, we walked for a few hours and
had little success, and we didn't have dinner so we went out with
Liberty 1, who also didn't have dinner. After dinner we went home and
tried phoning a few potential investigators, before later going to the
church with Lib 1 Elders to check emails one more time.
Sunday, we had ward council and it was fast Sunday, obviously. It was
a good fast Sunday, we had two investigators at church and we were
super excited for that; plus there were no weird testimonies so we
were golden! The two were even able to sit with a family in the Ward
so that's even better, but they had to leave just after sacrament but
hey, they got the most important part in! Then for Sunday School we
helped a sister who is going through the temple prep class answer some
questions because she was just sitting there by herself looking at the
material so we thought she could use some friends and company. Then
for Elders Quorum the lesson was about patience and looking at others
and appreciating what you have, it was a good lesson! Then we had the
Ward break the fast, which had very little food and we helped give a
blessing so we ate last and.... Yea, we ate at home. After that we
tried calling potentials again, out ward was tracked out for the 6
months before I got here so we have a lot of potentials, but those
missionaries didn't know how to determine how interested people were,
so we spend a lot of time talking with really annoyed people haha.
Well, that's our week, transfers are this week, and I've been in the
Liberty 2 Ward for 4 transfers, about 6 months, so I think my time is
up here; which is sad, but it's whatever the Lord needs me to do. I
hope and pray you are all doing well. Have a great week!
Elder Hinrichsen
mission lost a certain number of cars and our zone lost one, which put
us from a two weeks with and one week without to a one week with one
week without so we will have the car this next week.
Tuesday, we walked around and were able to visit with a less active
man and his wife, they aren't really interested but are extremely nice
and willing to let us come over any time we want, they are really cool
people. After that we went to dinner with a super cool family which
have two young men. That night after dinner we rode with the two boys
to young men's where they had a tennis tournament which we played in,
it was really fun. I took 2nd place, tennis is way harder than it
looks haha.
Wednesday, we had district meeting, Elder Anderson trained on Hope,
another Sister who came out this last transfer, Sister Moss, trained
on Patience, and I trained on being compassionate; it was a really
good meeting. After the meeting we got a ride home from a member who
asked us to go help a lady move from our Ward, so we went there and
ended up taking way longer than we thought so, we were supposed to
have dinner with the Propst but instead we ,et them at the church
where they were having interviews with the Bishop. They brought dinner
for us to eat there. After that we helped put together some packages
that we are giving to the ward today filled with things for them to
pass out to their friends and some things for them to keep themselves:
a Book of Mormon, pass along cards, family a proclamation, etc.
Thursday, we went and visited a less active lady, she just needs
someone to talk to and we share a thought and offer service, then we
had a lesson with an investigator that went well, but we area little
worried to whether or not he is actually interested or not; then we
got a ride over to dinner. At dinner the family had some friends from
Utah and the dad just talked about his mission the entire time, it was
a little annoying... After dinner we got a ride back home and started
preparing for our Ward correlation and at the last minute found out it
was canceled.
Friday, we had a mid training meeting. The training program for new
missionaries is 12 weeks long and being 6 weeks in there has usually
been a huge conference call with everyone being trained, but this time
there was a meeting, because of how large the group is, 27, so they
would rather do that than have 30+ phones in on one conference call.
So the meeting is just to see how the training is going. After lunch we got
home about 2:30ish and we weekly planned. After we weekly planned we
got a ride to our dinner appointment with a less active family who has
been coming to church now for a little over a month. Then we walked to
try and visit a part member family we are working with and we got in and taught them the
third lesson, which is about the gospel of Jesus Christ. Then we
walked back to the family we had dinner with and they drove us home.
Saturday, we wanted to do service for a member who is going through a
bit of a rough spell right now, we we went and used another members
lawn mower to mow his lawn while he wasn't home. Then we had to clean
up the grass shavings with a different members rake, so all in all it
took about an hour and a half to two hours to do. After we were
exhausted so we walked home and changed and relaxed for a little while
doing some studies. Then we decided to walk around and try visiting a
few potentials and less active members, we walked for a few hours and
had little success, and we didn't have dinner so we went out with
Liberty 1, who also didn't have dinner. After dinner we went home and
tried phoning a few potential investigators, before later going to the
church with Lib 1 Elders to check emails one more time.
Sunday, we had ward council and it was fast Sunday, obviously. It was
a good fast Sunday, we had two investigators at church and we were
super excited for that; plus there were no weird testimonies so we
were golden! The two were even able to sit with a family in the Ward
so that's even better, but they had to leave just after sacrament but
hey, they got the most important part in! Then for Sunday School we
helped a sister who is going through the temple prep class answer some
questions because she was just sitting there by herself looking at the
material so we thought she could use some friends and company. Then
for Elders Quorum the lesson was about patience and looking at others
and appreciating what you have, it was a good lesson! Then we had the
Ward break the fast, which had very little food and we helped give a
blessing so we ate last and.... Yea, we ate at home. After that we
tried calling potentials again, out ward was tracked out for the 6
months before I got here so we have a lot of potentials, but those
missionaries didn't know how to determine how interested people were,
so we spend a lot of time talking with really annoyed people haha.
Well, that's our week, transfers are this week, and I've been in the
Liberty 2 Ward for 4 transfers, about 6 months, so I think my time is
up here; which is sad, but it's whatever the Lord needs me to do. I
hope and pray you are all doing well. Have a great week!
Elder Hinrichsen
Week 29
July 26
This week was really good!
Tuesday, we had the 1st Counselor in the Mission Presidency join us for companionship study, President Medina, he's super cool! It was a sweet discussion about the Atonement. Then we ate biscuits and gravy, Moms recipe of course. We did Mormon.org time, then helped a member in
the Liberty 1 Ward move a barbecue downstairs from their upstairs deck
to their porch. After we tried a few people.
Wednesday, we tried to visit a few people, then had a late District Meeting. After District meeting we went on exchanges with the Zone Leaders, I stayed in Liberty with Elder Garrick, and Elder Anderson
went to Independence 1 with Elder Bingham. We taught an investigator about the Word of Wisdom and he committed to live it, we finally tried a few people before ending the day.
Thursday, we exchanged back after studies at around 12. We weekly planned for a while, then had dinner with a sweet family, the Millers, at the Corner Cafe, it reminded me of Mimi's Cafe a lot. We tried a few people before we had correlation at the Historic Liberty Jail.
Friday, we tried quite a few people out, with no success; but that wasn't a real shocker. We also got really sweaty because that's what happens when you stand outside for a few minutes in this weather. We had dinner with a less active family whom we have been working hard to reactivate and they have been to church for the last 4 weeks. After that we visited with a few active members.
Saturday, we helped a new family move in before heading to the Stake Pioneer Day celebration. So this
year the entire Stake had a Pioneer Day celebration where they took a picture of everybody there with a super expensive camera that could capture the details of everyone's faces, so basically, you just saw a
bunch of sweaty miserable people... Lol, but seriously thought it was SO HOT, everyone was drenched in sweat. Anyways, at this event, there were probably 1/4 of the people expected because when they took the whole Stakes’ picture the group wasn't that big. Anyways, after that we went home and attempted to dry our clothes for a little before heading to dinner with the Propst which was awesome. We talked about standing up for beliefs even when nobody else does.
Sunday, we prepped for the Elders Quorum lesson we taught about Home Teaching, the assignment was to talk on Missionary work, but we decided to focus on Home Teaching because a quote from Harold B Lee, "Missionary work is but home teaching to those who are not now members of the Church, and home teaching is nothing more or less than missionary work to Church members". But church was good, Sacrament meeting was about pioneers, for Sunday School we helped the Propsts with family history, or just watched them, get helped haha and we taught Elders Quorum. After church we went and gave a blessing to an investigator who is going to have a little procedure done today, Monday, then we went and taught a youth lesson. We had dinner with the Untch family, they are awesome and then had a lesson with a new and we got two other investigators from it!
Anyways, this week was pretty good. We had the best numbers since Elder Anderson has been here, and feel like we are getting somewhere. I hope everyone is doing well! I love you all, have a great week!
Tuesday, we had the 1st Counselor in the Mission Presidency join us for companionship study, President Medina, he's super cool! It was a sweet discussion about the Atonement. Then we ate biscuits and gravy, Moms recipe of course. We did Mormon.org time, then helped a member in
the Liberty 1 Ward move a barbecue downstairs from their upstairs deck
to their porch. After we tried a few people.
Wednesday, we tried to visit a few people, then had a late District Meeting. After District meeting we went on exchanges with the Zone Leaders, I stayed in Liberty with Elder Garrick, and Elder Anderson
went to Independence 1 with Elder Bingham. We taught an investigator about the Word of Wisdom and he committed to live it, we finally tried a few people before ending the day.
Thursday, we exchanged back after studies at around 12. We weekly planned for a while, then had dinner with a sweet family, the Millers, at the Corner Cafe, it reminded me of Mimi's Cafe a lot. We tried a few people before we had correlation at the Historic Liberty Jail.
Friday, we tried quite a few people out, with no success; but that wasn't a real shocker. We also got really sweaty because that's what happens when you stand outside for a few minutes in this weather. We had dinner with a less active family whom we have been working hard to reactivate and they have been to church for the last 4 weeks. After that we visited with a few active members.
Saturday, we helped a new family move in before heading to the Stake Pioneer Day celebration. So this
year the entire Stake had a Pioneer Day celebration where they took a picture of everybody there with a super expensive camera that could capture the details of everyone's faces, so basically, you just saw a
bunch of sweaty miserable people... Lol, but seriously thought it was SO HOT, everyone was drenched in sweat. Anyways, at this event, there were probably 1/4 of the people expected because when they took the whole Stakes’ picture the group wasn't that big. Anyways, after that we went home and attempted to dry our clothes for a little before heading to dinner with the Propst which was awesome. We talked about standing up for beliefs even when nobody else does.
Sunday, we prepped for the Elders Quorum lesson we taught about Home Teaching, the assignment was to talk on Missionary work, but we decided to focus on Home Teaching because a quote from Harold B Lee, "Missionary work is but home teaching to those who are not now members of the Church, and home teaching is nothing more or less than missionary work to Church members". But church was good, Sacrament meeting was about pioneers, for Sunday School we helped the Propsts with family history, or just watched them, get helped haha and we taught Elders Quorum. After church we went and gave a blessing to an investigator who is going to have a little procedure done today, Monday, then we went and taught a youth lesson. We had dinner with the Untch family, they are awesome and then had a lesson with a new and we got two other investigators from it!
Anyways, this week was pretty good. We had the best numbers since Elder Anderson has been here, and feel like we are getting somewhere. I hope everyone is doing well! I love you all, have a great week!
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