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| Alex and Elder Brown - bonus picture from Angie! |
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| Garrett Schnell, Angie's son with Alex and Elder Brown |
This was a crazy week. The Tuesday and Monday this week were full of
challenges to get ready for transfers. So we will jump to Wednesday. We got
our new comps. Mine’s Elder Brown from Cedar City, Utah. It’s been a riot so far. Wednesday he got here and we went to work.
Thursday-
We had our first full day of work. It was a little crazy. We were working so hard but not a lot happened. But Elder Brown is figuring somethings out. I had him go take the first couple of doors. Haha with a new missionary they may try something and it probably won't work but because they are so new they get blessed. We have already seen some of the greenie blessings.
Friday-
We had a member come out with us that night and we were blessed to teach somebody. I have never felt so happy to teach someone before. The brutal hard work we had Thursday and the rest of the week made that a perfect highlight.
Saturday-
We had a zone comp study. We were trying to rally the troops. The zone seems a little down and not as pumped to work. But we had a good study to help start a fire. Then the other district leader and I got together so we could prepare a training. It was awesome! We studied about revelation. We found some pretty cool stuff especially from the true to the faith booklet. It’s going to be sweet. Then after that we headed over to visit a guy named Jim. We helped him out earlier. It is a different situation, since he likes to talk a lot. So in our lessons we don't say much but we do get to teach him. Then that night was really cool. We had like
30 minutes left and we needed something to do so we prayed and asked where to go. Then Elder Brown had the inspiration to go by and visit an investigator we have been trying to contact for the last few days. I thought she has two little kids it is probably too late. We started to drive away to a different place when the spirit asked me, “Why not?” I was humbled that is for sure. So of course we went to visit her and she was home and we got an appointment to go back. So I learned a good lesson. Don't question the spirit. I had talked myself out of visiting her even though I also had the spirit telling me what Elder Brown felt. I had felt the same way. Good lesson to learn.
Sunday-
It was a usual church until five. Then we worked a bit that night.
In answer to Dad’s question, I have a set of elders, the zone leaders,
and a set of sisters in my district.
Love,
Elder Astle
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| Alex's face is in the far, back corner |
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| Leaning against the piano |
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| Greeting Elder Brown and gathering his pillow and sheets. |
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| Photos of the new companionship |
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| Alex and Elder Brown...day one!!! |
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