Teaching and Finding

November 11, 2013

This week was good we actually had one night where we were able to go on splits because we had 2 team ups. It was a really good split. I went with Brother Long and visited a less active lady who he had home taught for many yrs. As well as visiting some potential investigators. One guy John was really interested in the Book of Mormon and said he would read and come to church. He is also looking for a job so we told him about the ward employment specialist. He didn't come to church however so we will have to see what is up on Tuesday for our return appointment.

 Connie is still coming to church she has a couple things she needs to work on to get baptized as well as gaining the desire to be baptized again. We have been working with a few members in the ward on quitting smoking who are on the 5 5 5 list. The 5 5 5 is 5 people from the Relief Society the Elders and high priests quorum that the ward is working with.

Also I finished the Bible this week. The Old Testament. Took me forever and was super boring. I did a little jig after I finished the last page. I was glad I read it however so that I know what is exactly in the Bible.

So we go to this one house the Mclays they have this huge dog that drools and always gets super excited when you get there.

We helped Brother Orchard move his daughter into the area. As we were doing that a really big fat man ran through the gate as it was about to close since it was in a gated community.

Taught Sister Guthrie again. She is nice just still no faith there.

Elder Thorn gave me some Thermal garments which is nice. They were too small for him and just right for me.  . Elder Thorn doesn’t have cancer anymore, he just lost the eye when he was younger.

Had Zone Conference this week. It was good. It was my last zone conference so I was able to get up and bear my testimony at the end.

November 25, 2013

So Connie is still doing great. She said in Gospel Principles that she wanted to join our congregation. We met with her with a older husband and his wife the Longs and the connected really well. Sister Long had trouble with her kids and Connie right now has a son making wrong choices so they really liked each other. We also visited a few less actives. Brother Backeus one guy was nice and we will try back with him. He drinks however. 

So we did service for Tracy this week. Just moving dirt. It wasn't to hard of labor but my name tag fell off and I could not find it. I had just lost another tag. So now I am down to 2 tags. I probably won't buy any more tags since 2 should be enough to get me the rest of the mission. 

I prepared a talk a lot this week since they asked me to talk this Sunday. It went well and I talked for about 12 minutes which is the longest talk I have ever given. I had plenty of material however so it went well. We played B-ball last week for P-day and we are going to play again today with all the young men since they are off school. Which will give us a lot more people to play with which will be fun. 

We walked a lot this week and there is this old guy who is 96 yrs old who lives with a member who would drive accoss the country at 96. 

We visited Bill this week and he is nice but always busy. We just need to find a time to sit down and teach him. 

Went on a team up with Brother Knudsen which was good. We visited a referral Grace but she is just nice not interested in learning. 

I faced Elder Thorn in an arm wrestle and won with the right hand but lost with the left. We will be staying together this last transfer in Shallowford. 

Teaching and helping!

November 4, 2013

So this week was good. P-day we played B-ball and on Tuesday I was able to go over to Allatona on exchange with Elder Buckway. It was cool serving with him again for another day. We visited a guy named Victor who was a referral from the sister missionaries in the Allatona ward. He was crazy and he had a cat that was twice as fat as it should be it also was shaved and looked freaky. We also visited a less active Brother Units. He told us his life story about how he went to jail and then a bishop bailed him out for a 1000 dollars and invited him to Thanksgiving.

The Connells are members they just are trying to overcome smoking and some Word of Wisdom stuff which is why we go over there. We committed them cut down a lot on cigarettes. The husband is really into it. The wife is a little more scared about giving them up but she is trying. We send them a scripture every night in text to help them.

On Wednesday we went and taught the Deacons about Preach my Gospel. It is hard getting a bunch of kids to focus.

So one day we were walking by the road and the cars were in stop and go traffic. One of the cars turned there music way up as we walked past and started singing and doing a little dance in there car as we walked which was a little odd.

We taught Connie with a team up on Wednesday. She made us Cookies and it went well. She isn't ready to commit to baptism yet, but she came to church again for the 4th week.

So the Woodstock Elders called us over to do service with them. We helped them move some stuff for a hoarder. The house was disgusting and it was hard to move stuff since you had to walk on trash and junk. It was worth the pictures of the inside of the house. She was talking about how animals had got in the house as well. She has been living on her porch for the last 7 months. She called again for help a couple days later.  I am all for helping my fellow man, but there comes a point where you just can't help them anymore. As we were walking back from service a member called us over and fed us lunch.

The Bishop fed us Breakfast on Saturday and is wanting to go out every Thursday with us and to feed us every couple weeks for Breakfast.