3-21-17
Today, we went out to Lexington with the APs to sit in on their DDM.
That District has some wild kids in there. After that, we headed back
to West Columbia for a lesson. Then, the lesson cancelled. Later on,
we had another appointment with a guy named Odell who just wanted to
Bible bash with us which wasn't very hard to rebuttal. We ended the
day with some finding around less active members.
3-22-17
This morning, we went over to the Atkinson's to help with yard work.
We ripped out some more tree trunks which was quite the job! After
that, we met up with the Congaree Elders and went on exchanges. I got
to go to Congaree which one of my last areas. I got to see Brian Avery
and his family which was awesome. We planned to go and stop by Chanta
who is our recent convert, but she wasn't home.
3-23-17
We finished up exchanges and I went back to West Columbia after a
marvelous reunion with my comp. We celebrated by making chocolate chip
buttermilk pancakes! After that, we secured some plans for today and
made sure we knew where we were going. We did some finding until it
was time for our appointment with Ina. We had a really good discussion
with her about the Plan of Salvation. She seemed to really enjoy it
and listened very intently. She is going to try and make it to church
tomorrow, but she will be just getting off work since she works
nights. She does swing shifts which means that she will work weekends
for two weeks and week days for the next two. That can probably be
very tiring and hard to establish a regular sleep schedule! We were
going to meet with Gabe and Chaneta, but they had to cancel today. KU
won their game last night by quite a bit! They are just flying through
the bracket and I wish I could watch them play.
3-24-17
We didn't get in pros. clothes (shirt & tie) all day because we were
doing service. For the morning and afternoon, we did service for SBP
which is always fun. We did mold remediation, so we got all suited up
in gear to scrub every single board & board surfaces in the basement.
Then, we spray it all down with chemicals and wipe it off. When we
were done with that, we hurried home and got ready to go and help
Jerry (nonmember) set up more of his boxing gym. He said that he is
going to be coming to church Sunday!
3-25-17
We started the day out with some finding which went really well! We
invited a couple people to church tomorrow, so hopefully they come!
That's basically, what we did all day and it turned out to work well.
We knocked into this young black guy who was really chill and down to
earth. We asked where he was from and he said that he was from Kansas!
I haven't heard that or met anyone from there in forever. I told him
that I was from the Lawrence area and he's from Leavenworth! He a
disabled veteran and came here since his wife is from here. Sis.
Bassett also, hemmed my new pants for me today which was super awesome
of her to do that.
3-26-17
Church was so great! Jerry came to church and he got to hear me speak
since I had to give a talk. I was asked to talk on Member Missionary
Work, so that was right up my alley! After church, we got to the
apartment and saw that these two guys were moving in and struggling to
carry a couch. We helped them carry their two couches in and they were
the father and boyfriend of the girl moving in. I also, ripped my new
slacks in the back while helping them move which was a literal
bummer... There's a lady in the ward here that can sew them, so
that'll be fine. When we got in and ate some food, we
finalized some plans and made some more for this upcoming week. We got
a sad text later today from Chaneta. She said that her and Gabe broke
up... That is kind of sad, but now we can find out if he's truly
investigating the church for himself or just her.
-Elder Mitchell
