Hey everybody
what's up!
It's time for another weekly email. This week has been pretty great.
We are finally kinda getting the hang of our area.
On Monday we went down to
The national mall and played football with lots of elders. It was great to see
everyone especially because we are not able to meet as a mission anymore. After
football we went to the mall to get lunch and then we chill the rest the day
until it was Time to go to a member meal. During this member meal Elder Lee, my
companion, started getting super bad hiccups. He then ran to the restroom. When
he came out he told me that we should probably go. It turned out that he got
sick so we went home. That was our Monday night.
On Tuesday we
met with a recent convert from the ward. His name is R****z and he is from
Jordan. He is really cool guy and he is preparing to go to the temple. After we
have finished up with him we spent pretty much the rest of the day checking on
referrals and contacting. A little bit later in the day we had an appointment
with a less active man by the name of Brother S*****k. He is an older man with
some health problems, so he is not able to make it to church. The missionaries
had been meeting with him for a while now so we kept up the tradition. Brother
S*****k is pretty much deaf, which made the lesson pretty interesting. We
literally had to yell at him the entire time. When we thought we were talking
loud enough he would stare at us like he had no idea what we said. There were a
few times during the lesson that I had to stop myself from laughing. I had to
say the prayer at the end of the lesson. It was so hard not to laugh. I am
pretty sure the neighbors two houses down heard everything we said. We should
have counted that as a member present. When we finished up with him it was time
to go ward correlation with our ward mission leader and the other missionaries
in the ward.
Wednesday we
had our weekly planning session which consisted of mostly calling people trying
to set up appointments. After we finished weekly planning we went finding for a
little while then we headed to dinner with the family in the ward.
Thursday we
had our district meetings. Probably the most entertaining part of that was one
of the senior elders dressed up like Cupid and handed all the missionaries
valentines candy. It was pretty funny, but I also felt very uncomfortable ha
ha. The worst part of the day was that we had almost all of our appointments
cancel on us so we had to go about finding. When it came to dinnertime we walked
over to the member who is feeding us. Turned out he was still at work and the
only person who is home was his son-in-law. Elder Lee and I talked had an
awesome conversation with him. He is a really cool guy, he is from Florida and
right now he is doing an internship. He is a convert of only few years so it
was really cool here how the Gospel has blessed his life. After we finished talking with him we walked back to
our apartment. As soon as we walked through the door we got a call from the
member who was supposed to feed us. He told us that he just had gotten home and
that we could come back over and eat dinner with him. It was a pretty funny dinner, everything was just thrown
together and it was actually really good. The member's name is Brother S*****n.
He works for the United States Army and I am guessing he does some pretty crazy
stuff because he would not talk about his job at all.
Friday was a
pretty good day. We had a referral given to us by another missionary. He set up
an appointment for us. We taught this lady the first lesson and it went pretty
well. She seemed kind of interested and she said she would come to church when
she got a day off, but she is generally pretty busy. Hopefully we will be able
to meet with her again. After we had finished with her we are headed over to a
member who had just recently moved into the ward. She Asked us to come over and
give her a blessing because of some hardships of her life. It was awesome to be
able to use the priesthood to help her. Later that day we spend time checking on referrals again.
I wish so bad that they would pick up their phones and answer their doors.
Later that night we had an appointment with some investigators. Their names are
S***t and S***a. The missionaries have been working with them for quite some
time now and it was great to be able to introduce ourselves and get to know
them. S***t had a baptismal date, but an issue came up in one of the lessons.
We found out that he still wants to work towards baptism which is great! We
hope everything works out with him.
On Saturday we
had a few appointments. We were checking on this lady who had requested
missionaries to come over and give her a book of Mormon. We had given her a Book of Mormon about a week ago, but we were not able to teacher. So Elder Lee
and I dropped in to see if she was home. Her husband answered the door and he
invited us in. The lady who had requested the missionaries was asleep so we
talked with her husband. He's a really cool guy with some struggles in his life
right now. We talked to him about the restoration briefly and he said that it
was very interesting and he would like to learn more, but not at this time
because of some things that are going on in his life right now. After we had
finished talking with him. We decided we would drop in on the Igor. We had not
been able to get a hold of Igor the entire week and it was kind of frustrating
because he is our main guy right now. We knocked on the door and it turned out
he was home and he was really excited to see us. He told us that his phone had
not been working properly so it has been hard for people to get a hold of him. We taught him a few of the Commandments and he says that
he does not have any problems except for coffee. He hasn't had coffee for a few
weeks now, but he is having a hard time ignoring the temptation.
Sunday was pretty exciting. We had our normal church
services and then we had a ward baptism right after church. The ward mission
leader had put Elder Lee and I in charge of filling the font. While we start to
fill the font we noticed that the water was really cold. We talked to the ward
mission leader about it and he told us that there was a hot water heater in the
basement that we may have to adjust. So Elder Lee, myself, and the ward mission
leader went down to the basement to turn up the water heater. We went to the
baptismal font and the water was heating up. When it came to the baptism I
guess it wasn't enough. The water was still really cold. During the
confirmation the fire alarm started going off. As soon as the blessing is over
everybody evacuated the church building. Couple minutes later about four fire
trucks pulled into the church parking lot and started to investigate the
building. It turns out that the hot water heater overheated and it started to
produce a lot of steam which set off the fire alarms. It brings a whole new
meaning to baptism by fire.
Well that was
pretty much our week.
Have a fantastic week and I hope to hear from you soon
Byeeee
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