April 23, 2018 Transfer Week

Hey Everyone!  So this week was Transfers!  Found out that my trainer will be leaving me and I will get a new companion. 

Tuesday:  Today was slow, Elder Boyer started packing this morning, which took about 4 hours of our day then we headed out to see family's to say goodbye too.  It was a sad day but we still were able to get out and visit.  

Wednesday:  Transfer day, I had to drive Boyer up to the mission office and pick up new companion and also drop off my car and get my bike...  A member wanted to see us one last time so we were out of the house by 6 AM and saw a member, he gave us a sweet key chain tag with our favorite scripture imprinted on a piece of copper.  Afterwards we drove up to Omaha and cleaned the inside of the car and got donuts for breakfast.  It was snowing this morning so cleaning the car sucked.  Transfer point was super fun, we got to welcome all the new missionaries and see old companions and what not, 5 out of 6 of my MTC district was there as well!  so good to see them.  It is hard leaving a companion you've been with for about 4 months, but you build up memories and good times together if you take advantage of it.  My new companion is Elder Sandberg, from St. George, super smart kid and has been out on his mission a little over a year.  We headed home, then headed out for the day and had 3 referrals to contact, one was named April, we stopped by her house and...  She was in the shower...  She still came to the door which was super awkward but told us to come back!  We set up some more appointments and also set up our phones as well.

Thursday:  We went to the Kanesville Tabernacle with a returning member and a another member, and it was super cool seeing another church historical site!  We met a mission president who served a Chili, he didn't know a word of English but knew who we were!  We were able to contact a lot of people today, and saw a potential,  he told us that he studied our religion before and didn't want to continue learning more, but he told us we should study other religions instead of our own and how eternal marriage is a load of bull crap... so the smack down begins...  Elder Sandberg talked about how life doesn't end at death, but it goes on forever and we can all be happy together in the next life.  But the guy told us that everyone is going to get divorced and that I was going to marry an Indian woman who wasn't Mormon and life was going to suck for me.  What is the purpose of dating again?!  Then he started going off on the Book of Mormon and how we are wasting our time and should study other books to find out the truth, I started spitting fire on how God commands us to study to Book of Mormon because it is the true book and pray about it, he got quite and was stumped.  BOOM mic drop, We left after that point and finished our night syncing our phones.    

Friday:  We went to breakfast with a member this morning, then headed off to service.  We met all of the new Elders in our zone, super cool guys.  Afterwards we started weekly planning, went finding tried a few potentials and what not but had a good day.  We had dinner with our Alternative doctor, super cool guy, taught us some cool things about the human body and blew our minds again and fed us a super cool meal!  It was spaghetti and meat balls... but healthy...  He subbed the spaghetti for brown rice and the meat balls for Brussels sprouts mixed with a homemade sauce, super good and super healthy!  We tired April again today, we pulled up to her house and she ran inside and wouldn't answer the door, I guess she only does that when shes naked...  

Saturday:  We finished up weekly planning today and were able to help someone by helping move a couch, sadly my back is still recovering from a recent injury therefore I supervised, everyone did a great job   The family fed us pizza and we got to know the family a little better, but while we were eating pizza, the dog came back into the house and brought a present with it.  It was a foot of some kind, not a body, just the foot.  After searching the back yard, the family found remains of a rabbit.  It was so cool!  Bloody but cool!  The family was ready to throw up and I was having a blast.  Later on in our day, we drove up to to South Omaha to try the rest of our referrals and had some luck, tried to talk to some people on the street but didn't get too far.  We were heading back to our car to drive to our next appointment an there was a Nissan with the hood up, (shocker) but being me, I asked the guy if he needed any help, the guy told us he was just cleaning the battery and could handle it but was started talking to him about our church, within minutes the guy wanted to be baptized and start coming to church!  Its amazing how the Lord works and im so grateful for the opportunity to teach this guy.  We went to a birthday party for a member.  It was super fun, we got dinner, cake and Ice cream.  Our present to him was a blessing, right before we left he asked for a blessing, it was a super spiritual moment knowing people trust us and we were able to act upon it.  

Sunday:  Church was good today, lots of good lessons and meeting up with people, afterwards we had dinner with a family and were able to have a good time talking about dogs, jobs and schooling.  Super fun and great lesson afterwards but only 1 of 2 investigators showed up to church.  we finished the night by street contacting, we talked to everyone we saw!  We even chased down a few people!  I had another opportunity with talking to someone working on there cars!  It was a 2012 Ford F-350 dully, and he was checking the oil and right next to it was another Ford F-350 dully and both of them were red with the duel paint, and it was brown and the bottom half of the truck.  Both had the 6.7 L Power stoke Turbo diesel.  Parked in the street was an older Ford F-250 with the 6.0 Power Stroke but I got super excited and started talking to them!  They gave me the cold shoulder and Ignored me but I was determined to give them a pass along card, they slowly turned around and told us to keep walking.  Geez bro just trying to talk about our Lord and Savior and your truck...  We got a call later that night from Kanesville, asking why Bellevue was on fire?  Psh Bellevue isn't on fire, I turned around to see smoke in the sky and my jaw dropped to the ground.  BELLEVUE IS ON FIRE!!!  Crap what are we gonna do!  The Elders in the area next to us couldn't cross the boarder until it was clear, we ran back to our car and contacted our ward mission leader, we found out it was a bush fire in Downtown Omaha had a tire fire and South Omaha had a bush fire.  I figured it was a Chevy trying to do a burn out or something and a dodge blew up in South Omaha. Im not sure if the city is still burning down but im still alive just in case if anyone was curious haha.  

I'd challenge you guys to always be worthy to act upon any opportunity you have to serve one another, and never take family for granite, even if they are just friends, you should always love them and spend time with them because thats what the Lord would do.  Hope y'all have a good week!  

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