This morning, we did some service for a member of the bishopric who is
Bro. Contini. He's the guy we bought my mission bike from! We cut down
a few bushes and bagged some leaves for him. The weather is perfect
for yard work today! We had three appointments cancel today, so we
went into finding mode for the day.
3-8-17
We had Zone Conference this morning which turned out really well! E.
Volmar and I had to give a 45 minute training on weekly planning and
implementing a change in that for our mission. After that, we did some
finding in our area and had to go back to the church to take down
everything that we set up for the conference. Then, we went with the
AP's apartment and had dinner with them.
3-9-17
This morning, we all woke up early this morning to go play basketball
at the church. It was fun and always a good exercise. We came back to
the apartment to have our studies and then, went to a member's home
(Atkinsons) to do some yard work. E. Volmar raked the yard while I was
removing small bush & tree roots. Then, we bagged all of the leaves
up. They were very happy that all of that got done! We grabbed some
lunch and then, started our weekly planning session. We did it a day
early because we are going on exchanges tomorrow and we are
supervising their weekly planning session. We had an appointment to
see a recent convert and her boyfriend who is an investigator. It went
really well and they're planning on coming to church on Sunday. We
went over a little bit of the Restoration again and figured out his
intentions behind wanting to find out if this is the path he needs to
take.
We had an appointment with Patrice after that, but she wasn't there.
Her mom was there this time though, so we shared the Restoration with
her.
3-10-17
We had exchanges with one of the DLs and his comp today. We went to
their weekly planning session before exchanging since we changed the
planning steps as a mission. We did to make sure that it was done
correctly aligning with what we trained about. We figured that if the
DLs know, then they can help train their district on how to correctly
do it. I stayed in Lake Murray with E. Beck who is the DL's comp. He
came out with E. Winn & E. Oliver. We had some really good talks while
we were out knocking doors. After that, we went to their ball night at
their church building.
3-11-17
It was one of those really slow days today. We finished up exchanges
and I went back to West Columbia. We did some finding all day and met
some cool people! Although it, we did a lot of talking with doors
instead. Other than that, I don't have too much to talk about today.
The nice thing is that even though nothing really happened, we still
have fun just bein zealous missionaries. Haha we get along really
well, so that helps a lot.
3-12-17
The craziest thing happened this morning... We went outside to go to
church this morning and it was SNOWING!? It was snowing in SC... It
went on for a little while, but none of it stuck. It melted when it
hit the ground. This sacrament meeting was very powerful. The talks
given were centered around Christ and the Atonement. After that, we
taught Gospel Pinciples which was on Ch. 1 (Our Heavenly Father) and
that went well. We headed home after ward council, got some lunch and
made plans for the day. We had a lesson with a lady named, Ina who was
a Bible referral from awhile back. We had a powerful lesson with her
about the BoM and put her on date for baptism! She is planning to come
to church next Sunday. She is truly seeking and said that she feels
there is a void that she needs to fill that other churches haven't. It
was funny though, because we were talking about the BoM and the
Nephites & Lamanites. She was having the hardest time pronouncing
those even after helping her. She at one point said; "the nipplites"
and I almost lost it! After the day was over, we went to the mission
office and chilled with the APs. We are staying overnight with them
and spending pday with them tomorrow!
-Elder Mitchell
