Well this week was full of lots of stuff!
Monday was pday as usual and we went shopping, went to Sam's club for lunch and then went to go play basketball at the church for the rest of the day.
Tuesday was way fun! We had our last district meeting of this transfer (which is weird because we would usually have one every week for six weeks but the one tomorrow is zone conference so multiple zones meet together). It was really good, we did a bunch of trainings and role plays to help us with the work. We also talked about love, love like Christ's. We need to have love for every person no matter what they look like, who they are, or how the treat us, we need to love everyone. Our senior missionaries set up this activity for the whole zone (the whole zone has district meetings on the same day, in the same building, but in different rooms) to do after the meetings. We played human-sized hungry hippos 😂
It got crazy!
We also went to go help a member move a Piano into his new apartment. It sucked. The apartment he was moving out of was the first apartment on the first floor but the one he was moving into was up a flight of stairs (which was about the width of my shoulders). Anyways we couldn't get it up the stairs but I did manage to wreck my arms😂
Wednesday we went up to Morristown for our 3 week "see how we are doing" meeting and it was good but long. It's so pretty up there, so many trees and nature. It reminds me of st George.
President Taggart and Sister Taggart talked about how to manage stress for all the new missionaries. I got to see some of my buddies from the MTC, we talked about how different our areas were and such. It sounds like elder _____ is still having a pretty hard time but we talked about it and hope it will start to turn around.
We had this awesome lunch and then after we stopped by the mission office to get a couple Arabic Book of Mormons for some other elders. While I was there I got my mail! I got Wallys painting! I could just see him on the sitting around the kitchen table painting that😂I got a package from Scott, Holly and the kids and Mishawn:) Now I have SO MUCH FOOD! haha both of the packages were packed full of food! Oh and the decorating was really good! |
| Package from loved ones |
Wednesday night we had a dinner appointment with this super awesome family! It's a part member family. The Dad/boyfriend is not a member. He has the greatest testimony though and knows the gospel is true, he comes to church every Sunday! He just can't baptized yet because he's waiting on legal stuff (previously married and trying to get divorcement papers finished) so he can marry and be baptized. Kinda a hard situation to deal with but he is super sweet and the whole fam is super nice. They have 5 kids (all from her previous marriage) and they are just the sweetest. She always makes so much food for us and it is always sooo gooood!
Thursday was our service day! We got up in the morning and started our studies and we noticed there were a lot of fire trucks and ambulances passing by our apartment and we were wondering what happened. It turns out there was a pretty big train wreck in Hoboken which is pretty close to us (10min drive) but luckily no missionaries were on board so that's good. God watches over his children!
We went to pick up the elders (the elders in our area that don't have a car) for service after our studies and we went to Greenville! Greenville is probably the most hood area I've ever seen but then again I haven't been to a whole lot of places😂 We do our service at the Salvation Amy store.
After service we get sandwiches at a little corner store
Friday we pretty much helped a member all day. All they had was a old mini van and we just kept on taking trips back and forth with all there stuff. We prob took like 13-15 trips that day and then we had to go to some appointments.
Saturday and Sunday were awesome! We did our studies in the morning and then went to the chapel for conference. Conference was sooo good! One of my favorite talks was by Elder Oaks, he talked about missionary work and it was so awesome! Every session was really good. We had an investigator come to both of the sessions on Sunday and we got to come by later that night and talk with them about how they felt about it. They really liked it!
Well another week has flown by and it keeps getting better and better! The hardest thing lately is finding people that are prepared to listen to our message. We've had to drop a lot of people this week and we are almost having to start from scratch but that's ok cause setbacks are necessary for growth and we are working harder and harder everyday.
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