Hey fam and friends! Here's how my week was!
Monday: pday. Did our stuff, shopping, emails, ya tu sabe (you already know).
Tuesday we had district meeting and taught the district how important it is to listen. Listen to people and really care about what they say. Too many times as human beings in this crazy world we listen to respond. It's not bad or wrong to listen to respond, but we learn so much more when we just listen to understand. As missionaries we are constantly wanting to share the gospel, it becomes who we are, but we don't listen enough. You would be so surprised what happens when you just have the desire to listen. As well as listing to people I taught how important it is to listen to the spirit with the same sense to just have the desire to listen to understand. It was a very spiritual training and I hope that all the missionaries and ok something important from it.
Thursday we did weekly planning and we had few appointments with members. Later in the night we had a ping-pong tournament with the young men and some non-members. What the youth didn't know is that Elder Ferolino and I have a ping-pong table in our apartment and we've been practicing so we caught the youth of guard a little haha. It was fun to get some non members involved with the youth in a fun and comfortable way. We had a bracket and two tables so it was pretty fast paced and exciting. And I won! Haha I'm actually not that good but I did do some practicing so that probably helped. Later that night we started an exchange with the zone leaders in Elizabeth. They picked us up and drove us to Elizabeth where we stayed the night
Friday we were in Elizabeth all day. I was with Elder Nielsen and Elder Ferolino was with Elder Hunt. It was a really great exchange. We did a table stand in a park with free lemonade and cookies for a few hours and got to talk to a whole bunch a people. We also met with a few of the members around. We went to one members home who has a dog that is in love with Elder Nielsen and it would not leave his side hahaha. It was getting to late for them to drive us back to Perth Amboy so we just stayed one more night in Elizabeth.
Saturday we got up and the zone leaders took us back to Perth Amboy. We had a meeting at nine and then the ward was doing a big activity that took up a good part of our afternoon. They were doing a fundraiser selling papusas and doing like a flea market on the side, they were trying to make money so that the young men and women could go to call next year. It turned out really well and a ton of non-member friends came and we sat down with them and talked. Later we had an appointment with our ward mission leader because he wanted to introduce us to his neighbor. Her name is Mariely and she's super cool. We told her what we kinda do as missionaries and we showed her the prince of peace video and she's cool with us coming over again so we have another appointment scheduled later in the week.
Sunday was great! We had president caycho visiting, he's one of the counselors to President Hess. He had a great talk and an awesome gospel doctrine lesson. He talked about how members can do missionary work. We discussed all the obstacles that members face when wanting to share the gospel and we talked about ways to overcome those. Later we were out just finding people to teach and stoping by the members.
Well that's how my week was:) I love this gospel! I love being a missionary! It's so true! Go share it and fill the world with the light of Christ!
Have an amazing week!
Love,
Elder Marz
Elder Marz
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