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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Week # 99 Letter & Pictures

Hey guys, so temple trip got moved to this week due to reasoning you will read later. But hopefully this one will happen! You never know for sure until they are actually at the temple. 


And then here's the week in a nutshell:
6-26-17
"Ow, ow, ow, ouch." Today we got sunburnt. We went to Fort Wadsworth as our district activity to play sports and also to explore around for a bit. We stayed for like 3 hours and then went to the Spanish chapel to eat lunch and play other games. After preparation day we cleaned up and did some online proselyting before James and Berkley got there. Then we talked about temples and to prepare for Saturday. So exciting! 
6-27-17
"Praise to the man who communed with Jehovah. Jesus anointed that prophet and seer." I was told today was the day Joseph Smith was martyred all those years ago so to remember him, I choose that quote. Today was actually pretty great. We had district meeting after studies and then lunch. I typed out a Facebook post during that time and got it nice looking. I wanted to get the members in Staten to see it and read it mostly but so far a lot of home people have been sharing or liking it. Then we went to the church so Elder Powell could do that same but to his blog and then we talked with a few members and investigators online before going to dinner. Then after dinner we went to a potential lesson but it fell through so we did some look ups of people on the street and tried contacting a referral nearby but no success. We went knocking on Gordon St which we have knocked already but went for the homes that didn't answer last time. We found no success till the end, yep, the end. And we street contacted a guy actually and he is blind but was very nice and very curious so we taught the Restoration and the Book of Mormon. We gave him one and he said he will have someone read it to him and we are going to see him Friday. Hopefully it works out as he was interested. Then we went to the church for some daily contact and to send off the updates to our area on maps.me
6-28-17
"All we have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to us." Today I woke up to an interesting and depressing email. My family got my flight plans and sent me a screen shot. I just got made fun of all day from Elder Powell of how old I am. Thanks mom. So after that awakening we had our morning and we went to pick up a recent convert named Elvic whom I interviewed last transfer for baptism and we went to a lesson with Babajide. Elvic was awesome in the lesson and bore powerful testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Book of Mormon to have a great lesson. Babajide really opened up to us and we are set to go back with Elvic on Friday. Also started a group chat but had some troubles tonight getting that set up. But then we dropped off Elvic and went to the church and spent an hour calling the temple and James to schedule a time to go. Saturday they were only available for us at 7 am meaning we had to wake up at 4:30 to get there on time. We decided against that and changed it to next Friday at 2:30. Much better and then had dinner. Went back to the church to try setting up that chat but took forever and also did the daily contact with others during that time. Took a while and never quite got it so hopefully tomorrow we can get that rolling. 
6-29-17
"Here come the men in black. They won't let you remember." Today went by fast. We got up and did studies and just as they were ending we got a call from the spanish elders to help their member with some service so we went and helped for like an hour and a half moving furniture. Then had lunch at Wendy's and went home to change. Went to interviews with President and then the zone leaders planned a little with us to help us. Went home in traffic so it took forever and went to the church for a few things online. Went down to the bottom of the area to see Harold and it was a better lesson than usual. He asked questions that actually related to the gospel and the Book of Mormon this time. So it was a much better lesson but he still has some concerns. We are trying to stick to basics when he keeps going into things that don't pertain to getting baptized or anything like that. So it's a struggle to keep him going on the right path. Then headed home. 
6-30-17
"Get ready guys. I'm back in hardware mode." Today was off for me. Little things like I could not parallel park for the life of me today when I do it a million times a day. Messed up like 20 times. And I didnt really have much nutrition in me I realized tonight so that could affect it. Brother Colbert took us out to breakfast at IHOP and then we went to the church to finish our morning of studies. Went to pick up Elvic for Babajide's lesson but he wasn't available and then we went to the lesson ourselves but Babajide doesn't answer the door or the phone. So we weren't able to teach and never heard from him all day. I hate it when investigators do that as I always fear they aren't interested anymore. So we went to the church to weekly plan and then went to correlation at Costco. I wasn't hungry so I just got the berry smoothie which I like the old recipe better, just saying. Then went to the Church to put together a list of formers to visit and the first one we visit is a part member family of a less active and the less active was home. So he invites us in and we talk all night getting to know him and his background. Interesting guy. Name is Ron and been baptized for like 15 years. Super nice and will have us over anytime. So we are still Co fused at why he doesn't attend church so that what we are going to be trying to find out this coming week. Headed home after him. 
7-1-17
"We're half way there, oh oh, livin on a prayer. Take my hand and we'll make it I swear." Half way through the year already. And today rained us out. We got up and did studies and then went to the church to do our car report and the sisters gave us leftover pizza they didn't want so we got free lunch! Did a lot of daily contacting while we were there and when we left it was downpouring outside! We planned to go contact at the park right then so we waited like 10 min and it lightened up so we went and hoped someone would be there. We talked to 2 people but no new investigators and then it started downpouring on us. So we did look ups of formers the rest of the afternoon during the rain. Ate dinner at Chipotle and went knocking for half an hour before it rained on us again, but harder this time! That's when we went to the church to finish up dialysis contact and found out Harold had read 13 chapters of the book of mormon! Also talked to a former investigator we dropped earlier this week that stopped by the church right when we were there. He's the one into family history and was hoping the center was open. Then headed home after that. 
7-2-17
"I don't get art. There's nothing to get about it!" Today was a tiring day with it being fast Sunday. Church was good though and went good but then after church we talked with James for 2 hours almost as he had a huge concern with personal privacy and how much the church has access to his personal information. We tried helping and he met with Bishop throughout church too and vented to us afterwards. So that was very tiring and long. Didn't help much and we just hope he is still good with everything. He has just had some problems in the past with identity theft and doesn't want it to happen again. Then we went to a pass off lesson with the Spanish elders but the person wasn't around so we went back in 30 min and this time the cops were their interrogating the person we were there to see. So we couldn't meet. Then went to members home for dinner, the Samperts, and spent a while there as they love to talk! And also another member was there so it was social hour and we didn't get a chance to share a message. Then we crashed as we were still out of energy and stuffed of food. But still tried to find. But not in the mood so it didn't last long. Didn't find anyone but I'm tired now. Night.

I was so tired last night I missed Sunday night calls funny enough. But Harold coming in strong with reading the Book of Mormon finally. He said he felt bad we have asked him so many time and he never did it. So we guilt tripped him I to it but Sunday he said it was an addicting book! That's a good sign! Babajide was doing good at the beginning of the week but then lost him in the second half. Don't know why or what happened but hopefully we get back in contact soon. James is doing good other than yesterday's fiasco. He got to the point of almost not wanting to go to the temple in defiance but we calm him down and hopefully still wants to go. We are meeting him today so we are going to work on that. 

Happy 4th of July tomorrow! We have no plans as of right now except exchanges for a few hours. I'm not a fan of doing it on a holiday so hopefully we can end it earlier than at night. More around dinner time to go see our people we work with.

Have a great week and I'll see you next week, ✌️

EJH
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