So first thing first - we got news of our transfers. It was a pretty crazy because everyone is getting moved and there are so many changes. I am going to stay in Pioneer for the last of the mission. I am going to be training a new missionary. I am really excited but it also makes me a little nervous. I am pretty happy though. I really wanted to stay. I was really surprised, to be honest. We have so much about to happen in the Ward.
This last week we had a great week. Monday was a really good Pday. We had a bunch of fun.
Tuesday we were on exchanges with the Battleground 1 Elders. It was a good day. We had good long day. We went out and we were hitting it. We started talking to these people about family history and they were super interested in it. We told them we would call them later to set something up to go to the family history center. They were all down for it. Then we called them to give them the address and they said no. It was a fast change of events but it was good. We had some learning moments together.
Wednesday we had a zone meeting. We had President come. He does so well. It was a good meeting. We talked about goals and vision. We had a bomb lesson with Brandon. We taught him about missionary work. He is already for bapitsm. He is asking us who are we teaching. It is sweet. He is inviting his whole family to come. They live in Eugene and Spokane area. So they are going to drive a few hours to come. So that is going to be so cool for him. Right before that we were trying to get some people to come to the Ward party. So we tried by a couple of the part member families that are in the Ward. Usually how that goes is they are sort of nice but not interested. We tried by one of them and we asked if he had ever talked to missionaries before and if he would be open to talking in the future. He said yes! So that was awesome. He was busy so we didn't get an appointment with him. Then right after that we had about 10 minutes before Brandon's lesson so we headed down into his complex. We ran into a lady who just out of the blue called us a few days before and asked us when church was. We told her and she came. We were driving past and we saw her out walking her dog. So we parked and went to go talk to her. And we realized when got there that her husband was with her (he came out of nowhere literally). We talked to them for a little bit and then invited him to take the lessons and he said yes! And they said they would be at the Hoedown. We were stoked.
We did some reports on Thursday. I learned how to make this sheet for excel. There is usually a template that they email to us. But for some reason or another the graph and the chart are always wrong. So when we report to the stake president it looks really bad because the graph is messed up. So we made our own. And it looks perfectly like the template but it is actually correct. So that was a bunch of fun. Then we tried by a couple of part member families and were going to invite them to the Ward party.
Friday was a good one. We did some service at a food bank in the morning and then did some planning on the afternoon. Most of our week was spent trying to get some people to this party. It was a big square dance party. In the kind of area we are in it totally works. We invited everyone and their dog. Literally we gave one to a dog. Haha! No we didn't. But we just kept inviting people. We invited members to bring their friends. And there were some families who had a bunch of people planning on coming and at the last second they cancelled. We were supposed to have 20 non-members there at least. But we got a couple. And they are solid.
Saturday was busy as can be. We had a service project where we helped at a garden. We helped dip the roots in the water and then tie them in bags. And after that we got to a move right at the last minute to help out. We taught Brandon and finished everything up. Then we went to go help out a companionship. They had a couple problems going on and we had to go there.
Sunday was really interesting. We had a random stake meeting which btw postponed Brandon's Baptism. Because we didn't want him to go 8 days without the Holy Ghost. It was all for a Stake presidency member moving out. Then we jetted over to a Correlation for another stake. And that went well. My companion is being doubled into an area. So the missionaries that were there were giving him the rundown on everything. Then there was a fireside that was all music. It was really good. That was a headache and a half trying to get that together. Some missionaries wanted to do it. They asked us, but we weren’t sure what was being asked. And then there was just a miscommunication between them and the stake. Because they didn't clear it with the stake president. The stake president got mad. So all in all, it was a headache for us. But it happened and it went well.
Elder Astle
No comments:
Post a Comment