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
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