This week has been a good week. There were some ups and downs, but it was overall great.
Tuesday I
was on exchanges with our District Leader, Elder Olsen. He has been out
as long as I have and he is already a district leader. That is so
crazy! He is a really good guy and really inspires us to work harder
like a leader should. So we did the usual missionary stuff, except it
was kinda cold. It started to rain a little, luckily I was inside for
dinner when it did. We had a lot of fun together while we got some work
done today. It was also National Sandwich Day so we got 2 foot longs for
the price of 1!
Wednesday one of our
zone leaders was sick so us and the DL companionship took turns
babysitting the sick one so the other one can do their appointments and
contacting. It was good to do. The sick one took me out while Elder
Turner was stuck inside week 2 of the transfer so I was simply returning
the favor. The funny thing is that the sick Elder didn't believe he was
sick but you can hear it. We still got lessons and stuff in for our
area while helping the Zone Leaders get their stuff done.
Thursday was
alright. We had our weekly planning and stuff. Nothing extraordinary
really happened. Missionary work is extraordinary of coarse, but nothing
out of the usual, I guess.
Friday was
interesting. We had good stuff planned, but Elder Dunn had to go to
Urgent Care because he has a rash thing in his elbow-pits and it flames
up on and off so we spent an hour at the doctors, an hour for lunch and
an hour waiting to pick up the creme. It was a lot of waiting! Other
than that, the day was good. We were able to pick up a new investigator!
Saturday we
helped some kids by tutoring at some learning center thing and it was
fun. It has been a while since I studied that kind of stuff, but once I
got into the swing of things, it was fun. We had to drop an
investigator, Kato since he wasn't really putting in the effort to
learn. I guess you get one you lose one. Agency, I guess. Jacob, another
investigator seems solid though. He is a really cool guy trying to get
his life started and his little brother is a member and he wanted to
learn more.
Sunday was mixed
emotions. Jacob didn't come to church...again...after saying he would
for sure.I guess we need to talk with him soon. Church was good. The YM
presidency talked about service, Elder Warren taught Sunday School about
the spirit world, and we had a blast with the primary. Love the little
kids! After Church, I got a ride with a member to go to a baptism in
Hemet and I got to catch up with some good friends in my first area. It
was a ton of fun! After the baptism, we went to a stake fireside where
Peter Vitmar spoke. Vitmar is an Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics
from the 1984 Olympics. He talked about preparing now so you can stand
up to the pressure later.
Today I think we are going to clean up, grocery shopping, laundry, usual P-Day stuff after e-mailing so nothing exciting.
So
the lesson of the week for me is that everyone has their agency and you
can't make them do anything so you just got to love them. With Kato and
Jacob, you just got to be there and be an example so that they can find
out for themselves the truth.
It was a good week. I love you all! I'll let you know what happens next week. Till next time.
Answers to my email
It is going good. We had to drop one guy because he isn't showing any interest and not doing anything to progress. We have another one that is getting close to that. We picked up a new guy. Hard to tell where he'll go at this point. I am not sure what the handbook change is. The members are great. They take great care of us. Some give referrals more than others. Training is good. Sister Palmer is really nice! I met her once to see Elder Turner before he went home. It is starting to cool off here. It was raining in certain parts on Tuesday. I didn't really get any though. I think Kyall's got here Friday, I don't think I got Charlee's or Grandma's but I haven't checked the mail today so we'll see. We are still in car. As long as I am with Elder Dunn, we get a car but we really don't really need it because the area is small so we don't have a lot of miles. We'll see what happens next week in the the new transfer.:
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