WRITTEN: 7/24/17
Hey everyone!
Well another week has gone by in Perth Amboy!
Monday same old same old. Did our stuff and then had a few member appointments later that night.
Tuesday we had district meeting and we discussed some other ways to find people, table stands, chalk drawings in the park, etc... after that we went less active hunting haha. Pretty much the whole day we were trying to visit less actives and luckily we got into three homes.
Wednesday we had an exchange. Elder Sudweeks from Oklahoma was with me. He's an English elder so the exchange didn't do a whole lot for him because I was doing all the teaching and talking in Spanish but it was good for him to see how he should be doing things in his own area. We went to service and did a table stand together. We got 10 potentials that all live in his area during the table stand which is awesome! Also while we were at home doing some studies our whole apartment building smelt like gasoline so the firetrucks showed up. Turns out that the people that come and do the landscaping on the outdoor lawn on floor three got gasoline all over the floors, hallways and elevators. It was all good in the end haha.
Thursday we switched back and Elder Sillanpaa wasn't feeling very good at all so we called the mission nurse and she advised us to stay out of the heat and for him to drink lots of water and to rest. So we took it kinda easy for the day. We did some weekly planning and then we went over to a members house who lives close for dinner, she fed us cow foot soup and let's just say it wasn't the most pleasant soup ever haha but I still ate it haha.
Friday we did some preparation for a booth that we are gonna do next week. On the way to the chapel to get it all ready we found a guy outside taking pictures of the chapel. We asked him what he was doing and if he wanted a picture in front of the church and then he began to tell us that he was the branch President here in Perth Amboy back in the early 1990s. He's on a family history mission for the church in salt lake but he just came back to NJ for a month to visit all his family and we just had to be passing by the chapel in that moment, pretty cool I'll say. We also went less active hunting. We actually got to see a lot of them. We were walking down the street and we were passing like little stores and restaurants and I waved into one as we passed just to realize that I was waving at one of our less actives! Also we stoped by a Zumba gym that some less actives own and they made us a smoothie which was the bomb cause it was a million degrees outside haha. Come around eight o'clock and we were receiving a bunch of "severe thunderstorms approaching" warnings on our iPads and we were outside at the time doing street contacting. Long story short we got soaked from head to toe haha by the time we got home.
Saturday was long but it was fun. Our day started at the church for a ward activity and it had a really good turnout. We learned how to make Hispanic ice! It's like shaved ice but you just have a metal tin with a flavored liquid on the inside and then you surround the tin with ice and salt and you have to move it back and forth to make the inside like ice. It was really good! Elder Sillanpaa is doing it in the photo. After that we went to a little town festival and it was a Jeep show. We only stayed enough for a few photos cause we didn't see many opportunities to talk to people. For the rest of the day we were knocking and trying to find people to teach. Didn't find a whole ton, talked to a really cool guy Pedro (guy with his dog) and he was super nice but wasn't open to learning more. We accidentally crashed a party when we were bringing by some dishes to a members house and they were having a birthday party and Elder Sillanpaa wanted a picture in front of the princess poster hahaha. And then it rained for like the last hour while we were out knocking doors so we got home soaked!
Sunday was great as always. I love the sabbath soooo much, it's just my favorite and it's even better as a missionary! We sat in young men's and one of the priests gave the lesson. He touched on something that I already knew but it was a great reminder to me about how important are the small things that we do and all the stuff we feel our lives with. There are things that have just the smallest affect on what we do daily but in the end have greater effect on who we become. He used this little out line to get across what he was teaching:
"Thoughts become words, words become actions, actions become habits, habits become character, character become personality, and personality becomes Destiny."
It's pretty crazy hairbrush how just the smallest things have the biggest effect on who we become! Just food for thought:)
At church I took a pretty hilarious picture with a member who's name is brother Grande (which means big in Spanish haha) but what was funny was that I'm a giant compared to him haha. He went around showing everybody the picture after church hahaha!
Well that was what my week looked like. Not a ton happening here but hopefully things will pick up! It's crazy in three days I hit my year mark! That's crazy!
Have an amazing week!
Love,
Elder Marz
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