Monday: So it was the usual *preparation day, we had a sweet dinner, got lost in the apartment complex but eventually found where the room was. Afterwards our lesson cancelled last min so we ended up knocking doors and the 2nd door we hit, nobody was home until they pulled up in the driveway and opened her door and asked if we wanted to talk about Jesus. So we did... for about 45 mins, we ended up giving her a Book of Mormon and shared our favorite verses, hopefully she decides she wants to learn more!
Tuesday: So our Car, Rachel the Stinky Rogue had an airbag light come on the dash, and since its a fleet car, Im not allowed to fix it. Kinda sucks but Im being "obedient" So we didn't have our car for most the day but it was our car fast day anyways. We walked around downtown for most of the day, picked up our car, checked out some nasty Nissan Titan cummins and they were on sale for 10K off, ew. We had another super sweet dinner appointment, it was super funny and great, the members were loaded, they had a huge house, expensive cars and the whole 9-yards, yet they were super humble about everything! Afterwards we had a church meeting to finish the night.
Wednesday: Interviews! President Ence drove up to Sioux Falls for interviews, it was nice instead of us driving an hour south to Sioux City. Interviews went really well, President Ence is really chill and easy going. We had a good conversation, talked about somethings and it was great. Our district meeting was good, we got to use the High Council room, super soft chairs are nice every once and a while. The rest of our day was finding and trying people but not too much luck.
Thursday: So today Elder Harrison and I decided we wants to clean up our Area book, so we did, turns out there is over 40 uncontacted referrals #sacks thats a little upsetting to come to an area that had missionaries that didn't really care about the Lords work too much. While doing that, we also got a referral from HQ, Im pretty sure we set a mission record, we contacted this referral within 20 mins of it being sent. It blew everyone away how fast we showed up and HQ was surprised at how fast we got it done! We were able to set up an return appointment and give him the Bible he requested. We had dinner with our new Bishop, it was super sweet, he is a convert to the church because of his wife but it was a good story. While driving home we were able to leave a Book of Mormon in a neighborhood library and it was sweet!
Friday: Our morning was super slow, but our evening was busy! we had to pick up our team up for a few lessons we set up, but they ended up falling though, but the second lesson we had was in a old apartment complex and the last time I walked though it I almost threw up and passed out because someone spilled there top roman all over the floor, spilled chili powered all over it and let there cats eat it up then piss all over the floor were the food was. Also forgot to mention there was no ventilation in the hallway at all. So we decided to take our team up to that apartment. We walked in and he turned around immediately and said "NOPE" swung the door open and started running to the car literally! (this guy is 71 years old btw) he told us that this building is not safe for missionaries and suggested that was drop everyone in this building. We decided to take this member to our lesson with our new referral, we figured it would be a good idea... We showed up and this guy is from West Africa? I think? Anyways while we were getting to know him and we started to talk about reading out of the Bible, and our member started throwing down on this guy but them somehow we got control of the situation and started talking about the Book of Mormon, and it was super sweet, we ended up having a super good lesson, the spirit was strong and the guy had a desire to learn more! We drove to Wothring which is about 45 mins from our apartment, we got another referral and it was in farm country and that was sweet! except for the part that they didn't answer the door. We tried a few more people but ran out of time and had to start driving home.
Saturday: We also spent most of our day finding and trying referrals but had little luck. we also taught our ASL person, it was super cool, except we had to teach him outside since his southern baptists and we had a "good conversation" about grace and I guess he didn't like was I had to say. Our ASL lesson went really well, the spirit was super strong even though we couldn't understand a thing he was saying, we just held up his Ipad so the the ASL sisters could talk. That took up a couple 3 hours but it was good.
Sunday: Today was your normal church meeting but times up so I gotta go!
Life lesson, always tell your team up about the game plan.
Pics
Corn fields in Worthing
Rachel the Rogue
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