Well this week was super cold it didn't get over like 25 all week. I am not used to that yet! I have been OK, but I never realized how fast your ears can get cold and once they get cold man it is not fun at all!
Tuesday we did a blitz with the zone leaders and the one I was with told me he can tell I have changed and progressed a lot since I have been out. That was super good to hear but it is hard to see if you have progressed or changed at all so it was nice to hear that I have!
Wednesday we watched the Restoration movie with Harry. He had never had microwavable popcorn before in his life so we brought some and he loved it. He is still recovering from surgery, but he is doing great!
Thursday we exchanged and I was driving and I have never driven in snow or ice before so that was scary, but most of the roads weren't too bad. We did get stuck once in this less actives driveway and I had to push us out while the other Elder drove it it was no good. It was cold and I didn't have a hat so my ears were cold, but we did get out so that was good.
Saturday we had Stake Conference and all the missionaries sang a musical number in it and that was fun. Then something awesome happened when the Stake President was giving his talk he gave me and my companion a referral from the pulpit and that was awesome. That is the first referral we have received and it was from the Stake President. It was so cool because the night before I really felt like we should set our goal for Saturday for referrals as 1 even though we weren't seeing any members and then we got one in Stake Conference that was so awesome!
Sunday we had the other session of Stake Conference it it was super good. We went tracting that day and I thought my ears were going to fall off because they got so cold. The beanie I had didn't cover them very well. I shoveled my first driveway ever! That was exhausting, but then the lady gave us hot chocolate so it was all good! It was a decent week I really hope it warms up just a little bit, but it probably won't so I will have to put up with the cold! Well that is all I have till next week.
love seth
Monday, November 17, 2014
Monday, November 10, 2014
Kinda a Slow week but OK I Guess
This week was kind of slow. We had almost every single one of our investigator lessons fall through. We only taught four of them this week it was crazy! It was still a good week. On monday night I had dinner with Amy at my Ward Mission leaders house so that was cool. Then not much happened except the other Elders in our district one of them got emergency transferred to a different area and that was crazy, but it was good because he needed the change. He was just super angry all the time here. So it is good he gets to get a fresh start! The new elder we got is pretty cool though.
It is crazy to think I have almost been out in the field 3 months now! Time has flown by. It was a super slow week so not muchd happened, but on Friday we were at a dinner and their little boy came up to us and said want to see my underwear and then pulled his pants down and showed us and that was super funny! It reminded me of Franklin because that is something he would totally do!
Sunday night we went to Harry's house and he had just gotten kidney surgery and he was peeing blood. He had us look at his bloddy pee it was so nasty and weird. He is such a funny guy!
Everyone was telling us it was supposed to snow and it did. We woke up this morning and there was probably like 2 inches down, but after studies were done President grounded our cars so we couldn't drive and there was like 6n inches of snow by then. We had to walk like 1 mile in the snow to lunch to an old country buffet and it was not fun because I was just in tennis shoes and my legs were hurting so bad afterwards. It hasn't stopped snowing all day and from what I understand it won't be stopping soon. Well the library will be closing soon I will talk to you next week. Sorry not much happened this week, but we did see a broken street light on the side of the road so that was cool I will send pics!
till next,
love seth!
It is crazy to think I have almost been out in the field 3 months now! Time has flown by. It was a super slow week so not muchd happened, but on Friday we were at a dinner and their little boy came up to us and said want to see my underwear and then pulled his pants down and showed us and that was super funny! It reminded me of Franklin because that is something he would totally do!
Sunday night we went to Harry's house and he had just gotten kidney surgery and he was peeing blood. He had us look at his bloddy pee it was so nasty and weird. He is such a funny guy!
Everyone was telling us it was supposed to snow and it did. We woke up this morning and there was probably like 2 inches down, but after studies were done President grounded our cars so we couldn't drive and there was like 6n inches of snow by then. We had to walk like 1 mile in the snow to lunch to an old country buffet and it was not fun because I was just in tennis shoes and my legs were hurting so bad afterwards. It hasn't stopped snowing all day and from what I understand it won't be stopping soon. Well the library will be closing soon I will talk to you next week. Sorry not much happened this week, but we did see a broken street light on the side of the road so that was cool I will send pics!
till next,
love seth!
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| Downed Street light |
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| Walking to lunch |
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| Cold outside |
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Dang Good Week
This week was just fantastic. Tuesday we had a Mission Conference up in Bloomington and Elder Bruce A. Carlson of the Seventy was doing a training. It was super good. I learned a lot of things that I need to improve in order to become the most effective missionary I can be.
Then on Wednesday we had our service at the Food Shelf because we were low on miles we road these loner bikes that the Mission Office gave us. Mine is not very good, but on top of that we had like a 10 pound box of supplies that we had to get to some elders. I had to hold it on the front of my bike and I looked really dumb because I was riding so slow and weird. Then we went on exchanges and that was good. I went out of our area again which was good. You always learn a lot on exchanges it is nice.
Thursday we had an interview with President Forbes and we got to watch Meet the Mormons. It was super good. After that was the only bad part of the week we had this appointment with is guy who in our area book. He is listed as a super big bible basher. We get to the appointment and he wants to film it. I had a super bad feeling about it so I said no you are not filming us. He said OK. Then during the appointment I see that he is filming us. I had to pinch my hand so hard so that wouldn't yell at him. I was so mad that he filmed us anyways. It was just a waste of time because he was just trying to prove us wrong it was so aggravating, but it is all good now.
Friday night we went to the elders in the area next to us house and carved pumpkins with the family that they live with. That was super fun and then we ended up just staying the night there which was fun as well. Saturday was the best we helped clean then church and then we went to help a member move a TV and he fed us breakfast. It consisted of corn dogs, Sunkist, and candy such a nutritious breakfast. Then we raked some leaves. Then we had to go to the church and we had to stay and fill the font. We were there for 4 hours all the way up to the baptism. It was awesome! Harry got baptized and his two non member kids attended and that was super cool!
Sunday he was confirmed and I got to be in the circle and that was awesome. The Spirit was super strong in the circle. That evening we went to get some info for his baptism record and he forgot his wife's birthday and there anniversary it was super funny. Then we were getting all his kids down and we thought he had 12 but he forgot he really has 14 it was super funny.
This week was such a good week we had a lot of success and I hope that continues on to this week! Oh yeah one experience I for got to include a while back was when we knocked on our investigators door but he wasn't there, but this lady who lives there was and she was drunk and in the process of talking to her she turns to me and says 'what are you looking at dork' and she tried to kick me in the face, but was to short to reach me it was super funny.
till next week
Love
Seth
Then on Wednesday we had our service at the Food Shelf because we were low on miles we road these loner bikes that the Mission Office gave us. Mine is not very good, but on top of that we had like a 10 pound box of supplies that we had to get to some elders. I had to hold it on the front of my bike and I looked really dumb because I was riding so slow and weird. Then we went on exchanges and that was good. I went out of our area again which was good. You always learn a lot on exchanges it is nice.
Thursday we had an interview with President Forbes and we got to watch Meet the Mormons. It was super good. After that was the only bad part of the week we had this appointment with is guy who in our area book. He is listed as a super big bible basher. We get to the appointment and he wants to film it. I had a super bad feeling about it so I said no you are not filming us. He said OK. Then during the appointment I see that he is filming us. I had to pinch my hand so hard so that wouldn't yell at him. I was so mad that he filmed us anyways. It was just a waste of time because he was just trying to prove us wrong it was so aggravating, but it is all good now.
Friday night we went to the elders in the area next to us house and carved pumpkins with the family that they live with. That was super fun and then we ended up just staying the night there which was fun as well. Saturday was the best we helped clean then church and then we went to help a member move a TV and he fed us breakfast. It consisted of corn dogs, Sunkist, and candy such a nutritious breakfast. Then we raked some leaves. Then we had to go to the church and we had to stay and fill the font. We were there for 4 hours all the way up to the baptism. It was awesome! Harry got baptized and his two non member kids attended and that was super cool!
Sunday he was confirmed and I got to be in the circle and that was awesome. The Spirit was super strong in the circle. That evening we went to get some info for his baptism record and he forgot his wife's birthday and there anniversary it was super funny. Then we were getting all his kids down and we thought he had 12 but he forgot he really has 14 it was super funny.
This week was such a good week we had a lot of success and I hope that continues on to this week! Oh yeah one experience I for got to include a while back was when we knocked on our investigators door but he wasn't there, but this lady who lives there was and she was drunk and in the process of talking to her she turns to me and says 'what are you looking at dork' and she tried to kick me in the face, but was to short to reach me it was super funny.
till next week
Love
Seth
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| Harry's Baptism |
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