Monday, December 15, 2014
Ruff to stuff, not to much, Seeley, transfer calls, baptismal tally?, Sisters
So I'm a very happy to say that I will not be picked up and moved this
transfer or at least I need to make it through tomorrow without
receiving a call cause ye changed their minds... Yay me! So I myself
and Litton will be serving out a seven week transfer this time since
this past one was five so that they could get all the dying
missionaries home for Christmas and to save money on tickets.... Next
year will be interesting. Anyways I am excited that I will be staying
this go around but another interesting thing we have going on is that
in a zone of 22 people only two are being transferred which no one saw
coming.
Well I don't have to many crazy wild things to talk about this past
week no sir so I'll cut to the chase that up until about Wednesday we
just walked around and tried to find people. Thus I have a very boring
title compared to the usual which disappoints me but I'll have to live
with it or think of something wittier to put down.
So on Wednesday I was on exchanges with Elder Seeley who I have been
dying to go on exchanges with all transfer since my companion is the
district leader. The day started off pretty sweet since the four of us
ordered wings for lunch that were just darn right tasty. Well we got
into the exchange pretty quick when we dropped in on Gill looking for
Nancy but she was at work.
He has been having a lot of struggles with work lately and with the
coming Christmas season, which we didn't know until after we showed him
the he is the gift video, which helped him to feel a lot better and was
very happy that we had stopped by and showed him that video. Lately he
has been calling himself a Mormon so the next time we get over there
for an actual lesson we have plans to set him with an actual baptismal
date ;).
We then went to the church where I practiced the organ as usual and
face booked but right after we went to Daisy's with Brother Tabour and
talked a bit more about the Book of Mormon so that she could have a
better understanding of it. I'm really excited for Daisy since she has
been doing what we have asked her to do and she accepted a baptismal
date on this visit :D! The main thing now is that I want to get a
closer relationship with her like our other investigators which just
seems to be coming slower than usual which I don't like >:/.
Right from their we had some grub and Seeley and I talked. He goes
home what now is next transfer but at the time I could tell that he
was going through a really ruff time. Super hard worker but I could
tell that the end of the line with the possibility of being
transferred was something that was really creeping up on him at the
time. Luckily though he got to stay which I hope helped him and I'm
excited to be serving with him again.
Well our missionary meeting that night, to where we give all of our
updates and help neededs to our Ward mission leader, went well and
I brought up that our mission leaders want us back in Ward council
which I've been wanting for awhile since the missionaries and Ward
seem to have a distant gap between themselves... Besides the sisters
that is but that's a later point :P. I had no support from our
district which bugged me but because it was asked to be done
thankfully we got in.
Now there are some really cool sister missionaries who I've met (most
are home now...) but unfortunately I've come down to a dislike for
them since members only wanna do things for them leaving us out and a
certain sister here seems to always shut things down before they take
off before the idea can take off since she doesn't "feel comfortable"
about it... :P.
Sorry for my rant but I need to get it out, anyways on with our time.
Friday to Saturday I was on exchanges with Elder Sutton again which
was good right up until the very end. We had a very random appointment
at 8 Saturday morning for a guy he had talked to who lived in another
wards area but since they couldn't go we ended up going and it was
pretty bad. The mans name was John who had very little background in
religion let alone only had the belief that there had to be some
higher power but rather than just touching on a few things Sutton just
plowed through with the restoration as fast as possible so that we
could make it to football.... Dang it! He was so confused at the end
to :(.
I'm a bit worried about his golden/greeny missionary too. Kid has no
life experience so he just buys a lot of junk and on his msf he had a
dollar left.... He's still got a whole month left what the heck haha.
Boy I'm glad I went to college first ;).
Football was good but the rest of the day kinda stunk since everything
that we had planned fell through. Sunday we had to get up really early
to go to a meeting where we discussed the missionary efforts in our
Ward and what our plan was going to be for the coming year. It was
nice and President Anderson actually came to be apart of it to which
was really sweet. He had some really awesome compliments about the
missionaries in our Ward which I'm a bit worried about now, haha.
Either way though I hope that it helps the Ward to trust us more since
bishop was in there too.
After church I played the organ again but I was a bit bumbed this time
around. Didn't play as well and the third song I was different than
the one I was told to practice so a lady from another Ward came in to
save the day. Then Litton started doing this head bobbing for me to
leave which I didn't understand since I had one more song to play so I
asked the lady to do so and found out that Litton just wanted to make
some phone calls >.<. Hope I haven't lost my job haha.
We went on my first time ever splits yesterday too. I went with a
senior couple in our Ward the Syme's to Daisy again which went well. I
had to slow down a bit since it was going so fast but the Symes were a
great help with Daisy and at the end she asked what she needed to do
to be baptized :D!
It was pretty sweet. From there Litton went to practice the Messiah
while I went with Lundberg our ZL to Mike and Dana's :). Well that
about wraps it all up, I need to find a spanish elder to translate a
post I found on facebook since I think some of the investigators I
worked with back in Seaford with Elder Leavitt got baptized! We will
see.
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