6-19-17
"Why do you tell me things, I don't want to know that!" Preparation day! And we decided to mix it up in the afternoon. We had laundry and email at the church. Lunch at Burger King and more email but then we decided to go get cool fidget spinners and we drove all the way to the bottom of our area to this store we found online that sells them and bought a fidget spinner each that is a rainbow fade. It's pretty cool and then we went to the Spanish chapel to play basketball and have haircuts. We got out late as it took a while to cut hair and we were last. Cleaned up at home and ate dinner but the rain outside made flash flood alerts go crazy on our phones. Good thing we had some things to do online so we did those from the apartment and had a group chat going with some YM to hopefully start working more with them this week.
6-20-17
"It's time to ask yourself, what do you want to be remembered for?" Pretty great day overall. We had the usual morning and then lunch. Went to district meeting and ended up going over by an hour. Also started late so that didn't help and also had to talk about a few more things so now we got late into the afternoon. Then we went knocking on a street we knocked before but this time knocking on those that didn't answer. Ended up a guy we met before but he is a little slower than most people but has real intent. Then exchanged with elder Fowles and Beecher. I'm with Elder Beecher for the day but they fed us dinner as we started late. Went to a lesson and ended up teaching 3 people there. 1 we met before on Sunday and the other 2 live in the same home and all were participating in the lesson so it was awesome. All 3 became new investigators! Then tried 2 potential lessons but those fell through and so we did potential look ups and dropped some more as they weren't interested anymore. And then headed home. It was funny to see Elder Beecher's reaction to the apartment as he served here 6 months ago.
6-21-17
"I proclaim this to be the summer of George!" It was a good exchange. We got up and did our normal studies and lunch but saved companionship Study for the afternoon to help split it up a little bit and so before companionship study we did some look up and knocking homes that didn't answer before on 2 streets. Then we went to the church for companionship study and went home to grab his stuff. Ended our exchange knocking a road and meeting Elder Fowles and Powell there. We then exchanged back and went to the church for James and. Berkley. They showed up late again with dinner but we forgave them as they had dinner and so we ate and talked about some concerns James brought up earlier this week and then went into online proselyting and teaching James how to do it since that is how he was found from Berkley. So exciting and he continued talking and Elder Powell had a few questions for him which ended up taking the night. So we headed home after that.
6-22-17
"We came, we saw, we conquered." It was a fairly boring day today as we had weekly planning in the afternoon and we also spent some time figuring out our devices again. We had a problem of not having our mormon.org email on the phone and not knowing how but Elder Powell is good with Samsung and figured it out and then sent a step by step instruction to the district to have as well. And also cleaned up Facebook a little more so that was our afternoon and then after we had dinner, we were about to start knocking when the sisters wanted us to clean the relief society room for their baptism tomorrow and we are the ones who always eat in there with James and Berkley so we went and cleaned it up. Then we went knocking and talked to a few people but none turned into new investigators. Went back to the church to send off the maps.me roads where we send it to the district which roads we knocked, who is interested, who isn't, who speaks English and who speaks Spanish. This way we don't knock the same houses. And we knock the ones that didn't answer last time.
6-23-17
"I feel like I just got hit by a truck." Yeah, like a truck. That's how I felt today as it was more of a weirder day. We got up and went to correlation before studies or planning at Burger King and our ward mission leader bought us breakfast. Then we did our studies and planning and didn't have lunch as we weren't hungry but we went to knock homes that didn't answer last time. No success but we went to teach that potential from Wednesday on exchanges and his name is Babajide. He's from Nigeria and he had a problem with the church but loved reading the book of mormon but we were able to get past that and go into his home to read 3 Nephi 11 with him. He was so cool about it he already was curious about coming to church before us asking and he was one that didn't like religions. So big steps for Babajide. And I didn't write it but I remember distinctly on Wednesday that there was no answer the first time we rang his bell, but I felt to ring it again and a few seconds later he answered thinking we were the delivery dude. Now this is what it has turned into. We just hope he goes to church. Then our next lesson fell through so we could to he'd knocking and switched areas to knock. Then went to the church just before dinner to catch up on area book and inputting everyone into it. Had dinner and went knocking until our lesson, which fell hough and so we went to the sisters baptism tonight for a 9 year old. That ended our night.
6-24-17
"Another one bites the dust. And another one down, and another one down, and another one bites the dust!" We woke up to another mouse caught. Haven't seen them in over a month but we caught another. So today was interesting. We had the usual morning and then we went to 2 potential lessons. The first didn't answer, but the second shoved us out of the hallways and outside then locked the door behind us. He wasnt down. So we knocked around and found more people that didn't want to talk to us. Like this was worse than usual so we took that to mean this isn't the time. Went to the church and sent off some daily contacts and reminding people about church tomorrow. Then had dinner and we decided we want to try Facebook finding even more than we have before. So we went to the church and looked up all the members we could, all our investigators, some formers, and started messaging a few and getting their background. Could be considered Facebook stalking but we found one we wanted to go visit so we went. Wasn't home but talked to 2 chill guys that claim they're saved but was down to read the pamphlet we left and gave them our card. So maybe something will come out of it.
6-25-17
"Sing me a song, you're the piano man. Sing me a song tonight. Cause we're all in the mood for a melody." Today was church day. So we got up and got ready, went to church and Babajide came to church! He only came for sacrament as he had to go afterwards but he came after knocking into him this week! Then James got the priesthood and them his temple recommend after church. So we are good to go to the temple this Saturday! Had lunch and we looked up a ton of members and less actives on Facebook to friend. Then went knocking and talked to a few people that are solid. Even got ones Facebook info to keep in contact. Then we headed to Brother Colberts for dinner and then headed home.
Babajide is our progressing investigator now as he is reading the book of Mormon and attended church all in 4 days basically. Elder Beecher said he was the first person to ever see a person found, taught, have read a little, and attend church all in a week. And he goes home in 2 weeks. So that shows Babajide's potential. We are super excited and James got the priesthood yesterday and a temple recommend so we are good for temple trip! Didn't see Harold this week, and we got a few Potentials but none that are past the second lesson yet.
So I realize there was no pictures from last week's email. Not my fault, I put them in. It is this junky phones fault. It has had a lot of problems this week and lagging out hard-core some days. I'll try again but I'm not making any promises they will be there.
Hope you have a great week, I'll see you in the next one. ✌️
EJH
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