This was one of the greatest weeks ever. So much happened so trying to write this out is a struggle.
Monday we had solid Pday. We played a bunch of ball. It was really fun. Then we had a family home evening.
Tuesday is when it gets really good. We had a bunch of things happen. First, we were supposed to help this lady move some stuff in the morning but she asked if we could help her later. So we moved some plans around to help her. She’s a less active so we were trying to help out. Then, we found out that it was out of the mission. So we had to call and cancel. But we were able to help out a little bit somewhere else because we had some time and we were pretty far out to go back and change. So we helped move some wood. It was so muddy and swampy. We were prepared to move, but not to wade through a swamp. We helped there for a bit and had to head back and clean up. Then we were coming back and had a handoff lesson with some other missionaries. We were heading back and in the middle afternoon we hit traffic. So we called them and told them we didn’t think we could pick them up and make it to the lesson on time. So they said to just go and teach him. We taught him and he wants to change his life. He accepted a baptism date! Then later that day we had institute and another hand off lesson with some missionaries. We met Chris, who is a way cool guy. He has a desire to find out for himself if it is true. So after a spiritual lesson, he is on date for December 24. It was a crazy spiritual lesson. We just testified about how he can have a relationship with God.
Then we had transfer day. We had to make sure everyone was all good to go. We were the transfer coordinators. We just ran the show down in Portland. Later we planned a bit for the next week and got everything lined up.
Our Thursday was a pretty tough day. We had all our plans fall through but we just went out and hit it. We worked hard - just nothing really happened.
Friday was about the same. We had some things set up and nothing was going on. We are cleaning up records that have been here forever.
Saturday was a good day. We taught this guy named Regis. He is an awesome guy. He wants to change his life too. He is working for a date in December. We were all set up to go to the temple with another investigator. But he canceled on us because he was hungover. Got to love it! After waiting there for a bit we went out and talked to a bunch of people. We had a lesson later with another guy named Chris. We taught him the restoration and he wants to know Christ in his life. So we invited him to find out. He is also working for a baptismal date for January!
Sunday we had stake conference. We had a couple people come but not to many. After we had a referral from another set of missionaries. We taught this guy David. He was a truth seeker. He is just wanting to know truth. So we told him how we can find it. And he now has a baptism date for January!
This week had some lows. But it also had the highest of highs. We found like 5 people this week who wants be Baptized! That never happens!!! Also, I saw a rainbow for the first time here. You usually don't see one because it doesn't stop raining! So it was icing on the cake. It was a stellar week.
Elder Astle
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