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
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