Tuesday we were able to visit with two less active members. One lived in the projects here in Sedalia, he was a nice man who said he'd be interested in coming back to church; the other was a man baptized about a year ago who is big into gaming; he said he'd be willing to read and pray. Then we did some service for a nice lady in the ward. After dinner we visited with a family who only the youth are members but they are faithful and so we dropped by their house before receiving transfer calls, we found out we are both staying in Sedalia for 6 more weeks!!
Wednesday, our really good buddy Elder Rodgers out in Tipton was being transferred so we went to their apartment and said goodbye; plus Elder Rodgers gave us some stuff he wasn't going to take, as in, he had a ton of protein bars; because in their area is a certain Medonite, similar to Amish, store that sells expired goods that the bigger stores couldn't sell at a reduced price, and every once in a while they sell protein bars, you fill an entire bag and it costs a flat rate of $5; the only rule is that you have to be able to tie the bag. Haha, so Elder Rodgers accumulated a LOT of protein over four and a half months. He gave us three bags full, and that was probably about half, he filled up his carry on with protein, and left the extra. After we were with them, we went and tried a few people before going to dinner. After dinner we visited a few people that the Relief Society President asked us to go visit.
Thursday, we did a ton of service, we helped a non member clean out his shed then organize it, we helped another member move some furniture around, then we went back to the previous house where they fed us lunch; we then weekly planned and visited an investigating family who are having a baby soon so we helped them put together a ton of baby stuff: crib, stroller, play pen, changing table, stuff like that. We then went to dinner followed by visiting a member family just to better know the ward.
Friday, I wasn't feeling well so I slept a little during studies. We were able to get out on time and we tried to visit a less active member for the Relief Society President but we ended up talking to three people about Jesus and they said we could come back which was great! Then we dialed a wrong number but talked with the lady for a while and ended up getting a referral for some missionaries in the St Louis Mission. After dinner I had to do two baptismal interviews for the sisters in our ward who had two baptisms for Saturday, the first interview was Spanish the second English, the Spanish was stressful but I made it haha
Saturday, we had our missionary correlation, then helped a member do some service for a non member. After that we had lunch then had to help the sisters by filling the font for the first baptism which Elder Conley performed for them; it was a 10 year old boy named Kaleb. After the baptism, we had an investigator there so we met with him for a little, then the other baptism, in Spanish, started and I had to conduct haha. After the baptism, a family in the ward made a Mexican soup called Posole, so we ate it there and were able to speak some Spanish to the members, it was sweet. Then we had a new member lesson with the M. family.
Sunday was good. Talks were on the role of Media today and family history. For Sunday School we went to the Spanish Gospel Principles class which was about The Millenium. Priesthood was about Pride, which is something that we all suffer from greatly but as President Ezra Taft Benson stated, "Humility is the antidote for Pride", and as President Uchtdorf once said, "We don't discover humility by thinking less of ourselves. We discover humility by thinking less about ourselves." Now, off the soap box haha, after church we had lunch with a cool family. Then we visited a family to practice teaching the lessons and basically got a referral out of it! After, we visited with an investigating family who we talked with and shared a message about the love of God. Then we had dinner and after we visited a few people.
This week, we didn't really get a ton done. But we helped a lot of people through service, and that's what Christ did, serve others, and we hope that through our service, miracles will happen. Anyways, hope everyone is doing good! Have a great week!
Elder Hinrichsen
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