What is up Everyone?,
Another week
in the books and let me say it has been a pretty fun/challenging week. First
off on Monday we spent most of the day at the stake center for our zone
activity. It was really fun. They had lots of different games and relay races, it was very fun. Tuesday we went to a zone district meeting and this was
actually one of the best meetings we've had in a long time. In the evening we had FHE it was
taught by one of the senior missionaries who's a little
crazy. The purpose of FHE is to help less actives,new converts, and
investigators get a better grasp on the Gospel teachings and also to help build
relationships with one another. Unfortunately Elder McKinley took it to him
when he brought up the topic of Heavenly Mother. He proceeded to read off the
article but the church posted the gospel topics section. It was quite
uncomfortable for us missionaries because either McKinley is not the best
teacher he sometimes is very forceful and makes it uncomfortable. So
we felt bad for all the missionaries who brought investigators. Fortunately our
investigator was not able to come, thank goodness because he is still new to
the gospel and I think throwing The fact that we have a Heavenly Mother into
his head would be kind of confusing him because he was raised Catholic and he is still trying to adapt to the doctrines of our gospel. He has been teaching FHE for the past few weeks because the people who normally teach it are out of
town. Fortunately he has gone home now to spend Christmas with his family.
Wednesday was
a pretty crazy day. We decided to take our bikes out and unfortunately it was
very rainy. We started out going and visiting our investigator Charles, who is
at the very top of our area.
We had a great lesson with him. His understanding is
coming along smoothly and he is very excited to become a member. His baptismal
date is still set for November 29. After we finished up with him we had to go
down back to the bottom of our area to visit a member by the name of Brother Bachelor. Brother Bachelor is a very funny man. He loves the missionaries very
much. This was the first time that we were able to meet with him and it was a
very enjoyable experience. It was really great to be able to sit down and read
from the book of Mormon together it was a very spiritual. After we were done we
biked up to the top of our area and visited with a less active member. She is
very cool very nice. It was great to get to know her. After we had finished of
the lesson with her we headed over to the church for our weekly meal that the
ward feeds us. This week a man by the name of Brother Harding fed us. He goes
all goes all out when he feeds the missionaries. He had the color theme of
orange for Halloween so everything was orange like the drinks, and
he made orange pasta. It was pumpkin flavored. He even gave us party
favors. They were orange ties, it was pretty sweet!! Brother Harding put the
pictures that he took of us on Facebook unfortunately we do not have Facebook
so I have not been able to get them. Oops just kidding someone sent them to me.
After dinner we travel down to the bottom area once again to go visit Sister
Green who is a less active as well. Unfortunately she was not home and we were
not able to get a hold of her to reschedule our appointment. Wednesday was a pretty busy day.
Thursday was
just full of planning and setting up appointments we did have an appointment
set up with an investigator, but he canceled on us.
On Friday we
were able to go to the temple and do baptisms for the dead. It was sweet, the
spirit was so powerful. We are so blessed to have the Washington DC Temple in
our mission and have the opportunity to go to the temple at least once a
transfer. Later that night we also had the chance to go to the ward Halloween
party and help set up. It was a lot of fun almost everybody in the ward showed
up so it was a great way to get to know some of the members.
Saturday was
the day of priesthood blessings. We have the opportunity to participate in four blessings. We assisted in the blessings of twins and two other people from
different wards. We literally spent half of the afternoon giving blessings.
Then we got locked up at 5 o'clock because some crazy stuff happens on
Halloween apparently. The only crazy thing we did was order Chinese carry out. We were pretty reckless #MormonMissionaries.
Sunday we
were able to get Charles to church it was great! He enjoyed church a lot and
like I said before he is excited to become a member yippee. Church was great
and the testimonies were awesome. Sister
Machen, an old lady in the ward who is a former Baptist, sings her testimony. The
song that she sings is an old Baptist hymn. She sings it every fast and
testimony meeting so all the people in the ward know the song and they all join
in. I wish recording in the chapel was kosher so I could show all of you but it
isn't, sorry guys.
That is
pretty much my week thank you so much for all of those who have emailed me I
really appreciate it and it makes my P Day even better. I hope all of you have a
wonderful week and enjoy the nice weather wherever you are.
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