Season 9 Episode 4 - August 8, 2016

Last week I got a picture and a text from another mission mom in Camas.  This is what the text said: “They are both awesome! Elder Astle is a seasoned missionary and elder Brown is newer, but they are so enthusiastic about being missionaries and you can tell they love it! They both taught our Gospel Principles class Sunday, with two minutes notice! They walked into the room and there was no teacher, so they taught. They did great!!” We hadn’t heard about Alex teaching Sunday school so this was fun to hear.

Today’s letter:
So this was a really good week. We had a really hard working week then got super humbled by the spirit. But training is going amazing and Elder Brown and I get along well.

We will start with Monday. We had a really fun Pday. We went bowling at a place down here. It was a different place. We went there because we are trying to get people more involved. They complain that they don't have any fun on Pday so we have been doing a bunch of different stuff.

Tuesday - we worked so hard this day. We really haven't seen anything come of it. But we received a few referrals to try by, so we did. Nobody's home or has been home. So we just go and go. We have lessons scheduled with people, and then they cancel.

Wednesday we had a really good district meeting. I trained on conversion. It was really good. Or at least I think so. Then I went on an exchange. I went to the other area. We had a really busy day. We just got shut down by some people. It was a completely different area. They have apartments and people all over so we talked to so many
people. It was a good time. We finally had some success later in the day where we taught this Muslim guy, and we found a cool less active. We busted out this tough day of a lot of rejection. But with Elder Brown taking over our area we saw some miracles. It was cool  since they met a guy we haven't been able to visit  for a very long time.

On Thursday we had what we call a wake up call. We were out and stopped by a few investigators. We chatted with them for little bit and they told us that they did not want to continue meeting with us. It was a really low blow. I was here when we found those gators.  It was the only time out here on the mission that I've been kind of down. It also
stung a bit because we don't have very many to teach and half of them dropped us. But we took it and looked back and decided that maybe we needed to change. We are not focusing on the less actives enough since they are a gold mine. So we got humbled
by the Lord  - big time.

Friday we planned and then went out and found a part member family. It was way cool. They are down to meet with us.

Saturday we hit it hard as well. We were able to get to see some of the people we needed to visit, and they were at home. And, we had a good visit with them.

Sunday was a good long day of church.

We went hiking today, it was a good stuff.