much you love this work.
What's up guys, another week down...sadly. This week was amazing with
2 exchanges we went on and had interviews with President Reynolds.
What an amazing experience that was. We talked about what I wanted to
accomplish in the next few weeks before I return home and I had no
idea what to say. So I just said I wanted to go home with no regrets.
He had some inspirational thongs to help me see the purpose of the
next few weeks and to see the purpose of returning home. I am forever
grateful to be able to serve with him.
And here's how the week went as a whole:
8-7-17
"I am Iron Man. You think you're the only super hero out there?"
Preparation day! We had a fairly boring one today too as the Spanish
missionaries didn't have their full preparation day today due to
temple trip Wednesday. But we did laundry and got Chinese food for
lunch. Then we played some basketball with the other elders and Jay
gave us haircuts. Then we ran home and cleaned up and back to the
church again to play a board game with the English elders. Lasted all
the way until the end of preparation day and got ready for bible study
setting everything up. Had bible study but we left early to go see
Kris and his fiancé who is in the hospital. Went and saw them for a
few minutes and headed home.
8-8-17
"Wake up, wake up. Daddy's home." Today was pretty good overall. I
still feel a little sick where it is an energy drainer so I have
little energy and a minor sniffle with a sore throat. Nothing to keep
me in bed but annoying. But we had to switch out our car from a 2017
Subaru Legacy to a 2013 Toyota Carolla. Then we had the district
leader training meeting which was fun. Went on forever. And then we
had companionship study and went home to pack for exchanges. Then we
exchanged with the English elders, Rammell and Hansen and I'm with
Elder Hansen! He is in training right now, just got here 5 weeks ago.
So we ate dinner and went knocking for a while. Found a lady that was
interested and then we went to look up a couple less actives. No
success with that and then headed back to their apartment.
8-9-17
"How fast can we buy this building?" Exchanges were fun. We had the
morning of studies and went to Panera Bread for lunch before daily
contacting their investigators. Went knocking for a bit and taught a
woman about the Book of Mormon and got a return appointment for 2
weeks from now as she is going out of town this weekend. She was
pretty enthusiastic about the Book of Mormon though. Finished knocking
and went to the church to do 12 week training as he is in training.
Then did an exchange review and exchanged back. Elder Cahan and I then
went to the Snow's for dinner and they were doing a mock camp out in
the backyard with their kids so we got to roast hot dogs over a fire.
Tried to go visit the member we usually visit Wednesday's but she
wasn't home so we went and visited Kris. That ended our night.
8-10-17
"Phil? Um, his name's 'Agent." Today was a pretty amazing day. To
start off though, not so much. We got to the church for district
meeting early in the morning to find the other members of the district
walking around the church building outside looking for a stolen purse
that might have been dumped. I was confused and then they told the
story of how the sister's car was broken into last night while they
were at the church, in the church parking lot. One of their purses was
stolen and so they were looking to see if it got dumped in the woods
near the church. Nothing so we went in and had district meeting and
immediately afterwards, we had interviews with President Reynolds. And
this was the highlight of the week for sure as it was the most
spiritual interview I've had. Very inspiring and informative as I
learned a lot too. Then we taught Kevin one last time before he
leaves. Turned out he leaves this week end, unlike my original thought
where he left last Monday. He just is crazy busy this week so we met
briefly and had lunch at Wendy's afterwards. Went back to the church
and weekly planned until we went to dinner with a recent convert in
the ward named Arthur. Older guy but super nice. Went to visit another
member, the one we tried last night but wasn't home, and she was home
this time. Finally, we ended the night by going to look up a potential
in area book but they apparently don't know where the guy is that we
were looking for and doesn't know when he will be back.
8-11-17
"No hard feelings. You got a mean swing." Fun day today. We had the
usual morning and went to the church to do companionship study and
then we exchanged with the Spanish elders, Elders Rogers and James and
this time I'm with Elder James. We then did a companionship study in
their pool and language study until dinner. Took a while as we talked
a lot about studies and then we went on a lot of tangents for over an
hour. So we ate at Taco Bell real quick and went contacting near the
beach. Talked to a lot of people and ran into a member family visiting
from Maryland. Then taught a less active that was amazing. All in
Spanish but it was translated mostly for me and I contributed. Then we
went to the church to pick up a few things and ended up helping give a
blessing to a missionary and heading home.
8-12-17
"I designed this suit to come off, ow!" It was a fun day of service.
We got up and went directly to the park where we were going to help
run a soccer tournament that a recent convert here signed the Spanish
elders up for and I just happened to be on exchanges that day. So we
helped set up all morning and then helped fill water jugs during the
matches. It was a mix of guys and girls teams for the tournament and
elders Cahan and Rogers came around 1 to help out with serving lunch.
Continued helping throughout the afternoon and then we exchanged back
and we went home to clean up and have dinner. Went to teach a part
member couple which went really well and then went to visit a new
investigator we haven't seen in a few weeks but found out he is in
West Virginia. So he's not home. Then we did some daily contact at the
church and set up the chairs for church tomorrow. Headed home after
that.
8-13-17
"Aww, you're gonna break your old man's heart." Sunday and it was
packed. Once we left for church after lunch, we didn't come home until
at 9. We had church and Corrin came today! Kevin is on a plane to
Guatemala. Then after church we took sacrament to 2 different homes.
And some members invited us over for a BBQ and they were all the
college aged kids here for the summer doing internships and summer
jobs and they are leaving this week. So they invited us over and most
were married but all return missionaries within the last 2-3 years.
Some were out on missions when I started. And they are going to BYU
some of them and others to Idaho so it was my age group. I realized
that half way through that this is the group I'm hanging out with in a
year from now. Or sooner. Then after dinner we went to see Kris and
headed home. Dinner started late and went a while so we got to Kris'
late and they had cake for us there. Couldn't say no.
So Kevin is off to Guatemala and he said that he took a shirt and tie
to attend a Spanish congregation down there! He found I he is going to
a different village half way through which that second village has a
chapel. Doing good though, he's read up to Alma 13 as of yesterday but
he started in Alma 1. He said he wanted to read that one first because
it is referenced so much in his other books he reads. Then Kris is
doing good but his fiancé is still battling sickness a little so he
takes care of her a lot. Corrin came to church yesterday with her
family and even brought her niece that got baptized in Utah a while
ago. So that was cool to see. And nothing much else for people. I
wasn't in my pool a whole lot this week but I heard Dan is doing good
and reading and DeQuan is out of town until tomorrow.
Hope everyone had a great week, I'll see you in the next one, ✌🏻
EJH
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