Monday, December 7, 2015

Week 14: A Week of Highs and Lows

First off let me start by saying that I am absolutely exhausted.... I have never worked as hard as I have this week while on the mission. Alright where to start.... Well I have a new companion, His Name is Elder Jacob Romney Tonini, he likes long walks on the beach, and; no I'm just kidding... He is from "Texas, but my parents live in North Dakota". Fun Fact His Dad actually stood in the circle to set me apart as a Misterary (Missionary) Ummm, what else.... Oh! He has been on his Mission for 18 Months, and is very good at the missionary stuff or whatever it is we do for two years. Ok well you probs want to know what else is going on in my life... We too bad it's classified, lol jk 😋

Alrighty, well to start off on Tuesday we went finding and just went ham on clearing out the Area Book of former investigators... Which is fun, alot of them just don't want to have anything to do with us because missionaries in the past would just stop visiting with them; basically they dropped the investigator with out telling the investigator... Got to love telestial missionaries. Then went to a couple lessons and Elder Tonini said that he has never seen a Missionary as young as me take such a large role in lessons, so what I have learned is that my trials of being the only missionary teaching lessons in Sutherlin has helped jump start me. Unfortunately Elder Tonini has told me that I lack some of the basics like planning and reporting on lessons correctly, so I'm gonna have to work on that,it's ok I'm a fast learner 😉. 

Wednesday it was the same old, same old... Volunteering at the Food Pantry and at the Soup Kitchen, but the cool part is that we found a new investigator and got a referral... The referral actually came from someone that works for the Church in Utah; he was referring his Aunt, who, we volunteer with at the soup kitchen. Apparently she has read the Book of Mormon and knows that it is true, but doesn't want to change this late in life (she is like 87).

Thursday was full of Finding.. We went Tracting, Former Finding, and Part-Member Hunting. let's just say I'm beat.

Friday was meetings followed by meetings followed by meetings, then we went out to do... You guessed it missionary work. We taught a couple lessons, gave a blessing (I said it). That is my Second One I have given. Then we went finding again. Let's just say I thought I knew what it meant to go finding, but I was dead wrong. It is a lot of work to stay perky and upbeat after facing rejection, and that brings up another thing, I am shocked by how many "Christians" are just crass, rude, and completely don't act like Christians. Oh well, all we really can do is bring the choice to them, we can't force them to listen.

On the Great Saturday we went and shared #ASaviorisBorn with Members and asked for referrals, it worked fairly well, can't complain. It was the first time that I had done it, so it was kinda strange. Then Elder Tonini thought that it would be a great idea to get sick :( and so we had to go home for the rest of the evening 😷. 

All in All my week was pretty Great... We also set a record for number of lessons taught in a week in Sutherlin in the last 6 Months, so that was pretty awesome. Guys, this missionary stuff isn't too bad... lol. Well remember that God loves you and that I pray for y'all daily. Love you, have a Great Week and don't lose the Faith

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