May 7, 2018 May the 4th be with you...

Hey everyone!  This week has been sweet!  Lots of progress and tornados!!!

Monday: Last Pday was sweet we played zone volleyball, it was fun, killed it at the base line and embarrassed some elders in front of the sisters, it was great. 

Tuesday: So the weather this week has been really good and when I mean really good, like 60-70 degree weather and also cloudy!  We walked for about 2 hours in the morning trying to street contact everyone who was outside and it was super fun and sweet!  We were about 2-3 miles away from our apartment and then... The Torndao sirens started going off...  Crap what do we do Elder Sandberg?  "Im not sure, which way we should run? Or if we should hide?"  The wind started picking up super fast, it seemed as if we were screwed so I called the local elders to come save us!...  Turns out they are in Iowa eating lunch...  So we're toast at this point, Elder Phelon is gonna die.  We booked it back to our house and boom.  Nothing happened.  That was exciting, got my exercise for the day haha.  We taught our progressing investigator and he is so ready for baptism!  All we gotta do now is set up an interview! 

Wednesday:  Today, we did the same thing as yesterday, walk around and talk to everyone, it was fun, we discovered a dog park right down the road from our house, but it was full of old people which was really weird... Nothing against old people but none of them had dogs and were just walking around the park.  We also got a text from another investigator wanting to learn more about the second coming!  It crazy how the Lord prepares people, and it just happened to be about the second coming!  We taught them and they wanted to learn more!  It was a sweet day

Thursday: Interviews!  Today was district meeting and also interview with President Gardner.  It was super fun, got to see the zone, it was good talking with President and getting insight of what we need to do to improve or change to become better missionary's!  The rest of our day was pretty slow, it was raining but we were still able to get out and try some people.  We got a referral from a member in our ward about a Young women who wants to be taught so we gave her a try.  We knocked asked one question, her jaw dropped to the floor and boom, we had a return appointment.  Once again the Lord has prepared someone to be taught! 

Friday: So turns out even though your a missionary you can still go third wheeling but since you have a companion, its third and forth wheeling.  We got invited to a breakfast appointment with a member and his "friend" the whole ride was full of PDA and it was just nasty, Me and Elder Sandberg were dying and couldn't stop laughing but at the same time I wanted to throw up as well, super fun story but I'll leave out the details.  We did a ton of service today!  we did about 2 hours at heartland hope and We were also able to give a priesthood blessing as well to a kid who was going though a super rough time, that was a good experience and opened my eyes a little about other peoples life's, and it made me super grateful for my awesome parents!  Thanks Mom and Dad! 

Saturday was another day of service we did about 2 hours helping a member move a wood pile and stack the wood as well.  I love doing service!  Yes I was drenched in sweat but it was so much fun!  (except not being able to use power tools...)  We were able to get a few meals out of the service we did, and it was totally sweet!  it was good to get out of the shirt and tie and do some old fashion labor.  We also got dinner out of this project as well! 

Sunday: Today was your normal Sunday until after church!  Our investigator brought his son who wants to learn more about the Gospel as well!  The sisters jumped on this one but ended up handing him off, (thanks sisters!) we taught him and he totally agreed with what we were teaching him and it was sweet!  This guy has already read out of the Book or Mormon and has studied out of 3 different Bibles!  super cool and he already knows his stuff!  Im super excited to teach this guy and also grateful as well! 

Well hope everyone has a great day!    

Pics

Zone Volleyball

Yeah I knows it's not mayo

Wild turkeys right before the "Tornado"