4-18-17
The
Zone had interviews with President Turner this morning and ours went
really well. We always go first, so we were early to make sure
everything was still set up and got to interview longer! After that, we
went on exchanges with Newberry and I got to go with E. Oliver again. We
had a good day of finding and got to meet some cool people to set
return appointments with. Then, we ended the day with Ward
Coordination.
4-19-17
We
went to SBP today and we sanded the walls on the house we've been
working on. We were covered with the dust and we had fun while doing it!
After that, we got back and showered and exchanged back. It was really
great to see E. Oliver and catch up with him. I miss that kid! After we
exchanged, we went to a couple appointments that we had, but they fell
through. This evening, we met up with our ward mission leader (Bro.
Jennings) and visited a member to put them on date to have someone for
us to teach by three months. Bro. Jennings is such a stud!
4-20-17
This
morning we played basketball again which was tiring. Haha, then we had
exchanges with Lake Murray. I went there with E. Wilkes and got back on
the bike which wasn't too bad. It was hot today though! We met this old
guy knocking around and he invited us in and politely tried to Bible
bash us with his wife. His wife was like Satan himself, so I decided to
just bring out the scriptures and unload on her. It probably wasn't
good, but I was just fed up with it. They told us they weren't going to
change, so what the heck! After we stumped them, we told them that we
had to go and they gave us these little "Fisherman's Bibles" and told us
to read the tabs on it. Then, we had to rush over to an appointment
with a lady named Donna. The member they had scheduled to teach with us,
went into some deep doc. with the lady so that was fun!
4-21-17
We
went to Lexington's DDM today with the APs which went a lot better than
the last one we went to. That District has struggled with Maturity, but
they have really stepped it up recently since we sat them all down and
talked to them. After DDM, we went out to eat Mexican food with
Lexington and Lake Murray. We came back and we met up with some Sisters
so that E. Guzman and them could practice a musical number for Zone
Conference next week.
4-22-17
Weekly
Planning went down today which is always effective, but takes awhile.
After planning, we had a couple appointments that fell through. We did
get to teach a lady we met last week named Yuqi. She is from China and
is going to USC for college. She does not have a religious background at
all. The only time she had heard about God was when she came to the US
for college and took a religion class. It was very different teaching a
lady with a little bit of a language barrier and from a totally
different culture. We taught simply as like we were teaching a little
kid, but she's super smart and is going for her Ph.D. in school right
now. We had a good lesson with her and set a time to come back! We are
going to pass her off to the YSA Elders (APs).
4-23-17
Church
went well today and we were able to get two investigators at sacrament!
Ina, our investigator on date was going to come, but she got off work
at 7:00
this morning and was really tired from working overnight. After church,
we had Ward Council and discussed the SCI and missionary efforts over
the past couple weeks. We went back home and the Spanish Elders met us
there to have lunch with us. We had some of this soup/gumbo/jambalaya
stuff I made last night which is super good. I just took a bunch of
random things from the cabinet and threw it in a pot! We had an
appointment at 5:00
with a family we met a couple weeks ago, but we caught them going out
the door. They had to go over to one of their parent's house due to a
family emergency. After that, we went over to the Mumford's to help them
move their washer and dyer. Bro. Mumford is the ward clerk, so we
talked to him about cleaning up some of the old membership records that
don't even live here anymore.
