10-4-16
It was a crazy day today! We
had DDM today which went well. Sis. Bassett (senior missionary) made us lunch
for afterwards. We got back to our apartment and started cleaning it for our
apartment inspections. We got a call at around 5:00 saying that they're
evacuating missionaries from the coast because of Hurricane Matthew, so we are
going to have to host some at our apartment. We are going to go pick them up at
the church at 9:00 tonight. They told us to go and get groceries and water to
prepare. We had a lesson this evening with Leigh again and her less active
husband. It went really well! We committed her to baptism and set a date with
her then, invited her to church. After the lesson, we got back to the apartment
and the APs came by to drop off a couple beds. We went to the church and picked
up the 5 Elders that are staying with us. One of them is E. Leuluai who was in
my District when I was in Simpsonville.
10-5-16
Every morning this week, we
have been getting up at around 5:15am to go and play basketball at the church
with everyone! After studies this morning, we headed to Walmart to get stocked
up on food and water to prepare for the storm. When we got back, 2 of the Elders
staying in our apartment left to go to another apartment. We dropped off the
Elders still with us at an apartment complex so that they could go knock around
some people while we contact Bible referrals. They got us a new investigator
while they were doing that! After that, we took them back and got dinner before
our appointment with Chanta. We went over to Chanta's and taught her the Gospel
of Jesus Christ again. Her daughter who was baptized when she was eight but
isn't active was there and participated as well. Two of Chanta's kids got
baptized when they were really young because her mom was a member. Chanta wasn't
ready yet, but now she has been ready and is progressing so well with her new
member lessons! We left her house, then went to see Brian and his family. We
talked about the BoM with them since they haven't been reading it. His wife
opened up with her concerns about the church and we did our best to answer them.
I could tell she just didn't really accept our answers.
10-6-16
President Turner said that if
we don't have any appointments or anything, to look for service with the Elders
her from the coast. So we contacted Relief Society president in our ward who is
moving and all 12 of us went over there and helped her pack. She bought us a ton
of Little Caesar's pizza afterwards! We went straight to Ward Coordination
afterwards to meet with our ward mission leader. We talked to him about some of
the things we will need to bring up in Ward council. Then, we went to the church
and had Soccer night. There were a ton of missionaries there this week and we
almost outnumbered all the Mexicans there (not really)! Haha
10-7-16 &
10-8-16
Today, we had an appointment
with a new investigator, but they weren't home. We also, went over to do service
for Sis. Ammer's where we do ceramics and painted a little bit too. We were
then, put on lockdown because the weather is supposed to get worse later in the
day. So we have been taking naps and watching training videos for Elder Winn.
The Bishop came by and dropped off a bunch of food. He gave us some sandwich
stuff, juice, pop, muffins and got us all Bojangle's fried chicken! We ate a
bunch of that and then took another nap. The lockdown lasted until about 6:00,
then we all went to the church and played some basketball with the Zone Leaders
and all the people with them. The weather wasn't very bad at all! Just some
higher winds than usual and heavy rain.
10-9-16
Sunday: a bunch of the Elders
came to church so it was fun to have all of them there! Chanta was there and
brought her daughter with her.
-Elder Mitchell
