So this past week was a good week! On monday we spent the rest of the day in the apartment because Elder Freestone had to pack and then that night we went around and he was saying goodbye to some people that he wanted a picture with so that was cool. I took a lot of pictures! Then Tuesday it was a lot more packing and more picture taking for me, but it was a good day we saw a lot of people so that was good!
Then Wednesday came so that morning we met up with the Spanish elders and my comp and the other elder who was being transferred drove to the mission home and I was a Spanish elder for about half a day so that was fun! We didn't do a ton of proselyting, but hey I was still Spanish for a day! Then at like 1:00 our comps got to the apartment and I met my new comp Elder Taugavau he is from Oakland California and has been out 6 months he is also Samoan. We get along great so that is good then the rest of Wednesday was stop bys and we had dinner which was really good then we had one appt at 8 with Gus who is still not progressing we might put him on the back burner for a while. He just won't try to take any action of faith it is a little frustrating! but it is all good!
Then on Thursday it was raining all day, but in the morning the Zone Leaders were supposed to be coming over to talk to me about being a district leader, but they ended not coming so we waited around for 1 hour for nothing, but it is all good. Then we did some tracting and more tracting. Then we had an appt with Culley our investigator and he told us he has a testimony and it is powerful, but he won't get baptized because his parents have no idea he has ever met with missionaries ever and he has been meeting with missionaries for 2 years and he thinks they will kick him out and cut him off if he chooses to get baptized. So he said he is waiting until he moves out. Hopefully he will find the courage to finally talk to his parents! We will see! We also met with a less active Brother Cook and he has a ton of Native American stuff it was crazy. He has his own toma hawk and arrows and stuff it was cool he is a cool guy!
On friday in the morning the zls made it to talk to me about being a district leader then we had weekly planning and it was a long one because we went through the whole area book page by page and tried to find some people to go and see. So that took pretty much till dinner and then we went to dinner and it was homemade pizza and that was really good. Then that night we went to try and see a less active and talked to one of their daughters and man it was a good contact, but she has a had a rough life it was sad to see. She thinks being a rebel and being bad is a good thing, but hopefully we can get them to comeback to church they gave two sons who are in their teens who aren't baptized so they are our focus right now. Trying to get them on board and back to church!
On Saturday in the morning we went to mow a member's lawn who is out of town and that went well it was a good time. I guess it had been a while since I had mowed a lawn, but it was good then we had lunch and we went to work which was a lot of stop bys we did a lot of that and a lot of tracting that is for sure. We had Stake Conference that night so we went to Wendys by the church for dinner and a member works there apparently. He told them to give us a 10% discount, but my order has just gotten rung up before so I did not get it, but we get a 10% discount there so that is cool. Then we talked to a kid named Zion for a while in there he was cool then went to Stake conference and it was really good President Forbes was there and he gave a really good talk and it was all about how we can effectively use Ward Councils and Dale G Runlund from the Seventy was there who spoke at conference and he gave one of my favorite talks at conference so that was cool. I got to meet him after and shake his hand that was cool!
So Sunday morning we had Stake Conference and that session was also really good so that was great! Then after we ate lunch and tracted and tried to see some less actives then we had a lesson with a family whose 8 year old is getting baptized in August so we are teaching him one lesson a month and going through the lessons and it was a great lesson on the Restoration so that was great! Then we had some really good french dip sandwiches for dinner there as well! That night was president's fireside and we had someone set up to go then he canceled an hour before. Then we setup a new one who said he could most likely go, but then said he couldn't 5 minutes before we were going to pick him up so we ended up not being able to go so that was too bad. So we just stopped by a lot of people and we met someone from Haiti and he told us all about his church called the Celestial Church of Christ and man it was weird. They do some very interesting things it was weird! but it was a good week overall.
I met someone it the YSA Ward that served in the same mission as Nick so that was cool and then one of Amy's former coworkers found me at Stake Conference so that was cool well that is all till next week.
love elder howe
No comments:
Post a Comment