4-4-17
We
went around today and said goodbye to all the people that E. Volmar
wanted to say bye to. All the ones he wanted to see were home, so he was
happy about that.
4-5-17
Transfers
were today, which was sad to see E. Volmar leave. I wish I could've
been with him for more than just a transfer. He went to the Columbia
Zone which is where I came from when I was in Blythewood. He is a ZL
there which is a Spanish area. My new comp. is Elder Guzman from San
Antonio, TX. He shreds on the guitar and is super good at singing. Like
E. Volmar, he is a Spanish missionary but now working English. When we
got back to the apartment,
4-6-17
We
did some service for SBP today which was a lot of fun because we got to
put up drywall. We have been working on the same house fire the past
few weeks, so we have got to see all of the progress! We scrubbed the
board for mood remediation, then put up insulation and then, drywall was
today. When we got done with that, we got back to the apartment and got
all cleaned up to go to Stake Council. We had to give a report on all
of the missionaries in each unit and their key indicator averages for
all last month. We also, put the whole Stake Council on date to have
find for the missionaries to teach by the next council which will be in
three months.
4-7-17
Early
this morning, we all met up at the church to play some basketball.
Then, we came back and had studies and transitioned into weekly
planning. We made some plans and then, met the APs at an Mexican
restaurant for lunch which was super good. I had a cow tongue (lingua)
taco and a pork one! Bro. Mumford texted us earlier asking for help
picking up a washer and dryer from someone's house. We rode up there
with him which took so much longer than we expected. It was a mixture of
terrible traffic, bad driving and it was far away. We eventually, got
back and headed straight over to Jerry's boxing gym to help him with
that again.
4-8-17
We
played basketball early this morning and the APs came over to have some
of my buttermilk pancakes! After that, we finished up weekly planning
and headed out for the day. We did a ton of finding today and had lots
of success. We were able to meet some awesome people and some
interesting ones. For example, we met a drunk raging Muslim getting in
our faces saying that we are puppets and that there's no Christ. Then,
we met a homeless guy outside of Cook-off asking us for a ride and
money, so we bought him a burger instead. THEN, we met like the only
hipsters in South Carolina named Peter and Hannah. Haha, Peter is a
geologist... surprised? Lastly, we met a Chinese lady named Yuqi who is
going to USC in study abroad. She had this really funny-looking dog and
she named it some Chinese word for a "sweet BBQ meat." 
so it was a pretty good day to say the least.
4-9-17
Church went well this morning even though we totally forgot it was fast Sunday... 
our investigator Ina was supposed to come, but she couldn't get to
sleep last night. When she finally did get to sleep, she over slept.
After church and ward council, we were walking out in the parking lot
and a college student approached us asking where he can go to learn more
about the church because he has some questions. We went inside and
found a classroom to use. We had such a powerful Restoration/Plan of
Salvation/BoM lesson. We covered a lot because he had so many questions.
It seemed like he was really soaking it all in. He said that he wanted
to know why his girlfriend (who is a member) broke down when she was
expressing he testimony of the BoM and why she reads it everyday. He got
a little emotional after we talked about the way the Spirit works. At
the end of the lesson, we committed him to baptism and tried to set a
date.
He then said,
"guys,
I have to be honest with you... I'm actually, a member who has been
inactive for years. My dad is a high counselor in Aiken and I just
wanted to get a investigator's perspective to make sure if I want to
reactivate or not. This really helped solidify my choice that I want to
come back. Thank you. I just wanted to make sure I was doing this for me
and not just to appease my girlfriend."
That
took us off guard a little bit, but we just shared our testimonies and
related with him. We talked about finding your own testimony and the
process. Nonetheless, It was a great lesson and the Spirit was very
evident. He got a little emotional at the end. He's a really good guy
and we invited him to ball with us some Monday.
After we got back to the apartment, We set up some plans for the upcoming week and did some finding.
-Elder Mitchell
