This week has been a good week and we have been able to teach a little bit more which has been nice. Monday we finished off our day with a few hours of tracting til it was dark. Tuesday was a very big day for tracting. We tracted for 5 1/2 hours. We wanted to finish the trailer park that we have been working on since we got here but even with all that tracting we still had more doors to knock. We had a number of appointments throughout that tracting but they all fell through and our backup was tracting so it made for a long, but good day. That night we had dinner with our branch mission leader and he brought one of our investigators and we taught a lesson and ate and it went really well. He says he wants to, and will, be baptized but he doesn't know when and he doesn't want to commit to a date cuz he doesn't feel worthy and is afraid of what his family will do. We are trying to help him through and get him there but it is a struggle. He is a great guy though and we enjoy teaching him. Wednesday we had District Meeting so I prepared all morning. The ZL's told me that morning that they would be coming and that the YSA sisters would be there too. And since an elder went home for migraines, his companion was with the ZL's too and then his new companion arrived during the lesson in the meeting so we had a lot of people there and I was nervous but it went very well. Everyone had great input and we felt the spirit. It was a crazy District Meeting though. Later that day we tracted more and we talked with some people in their yard for like 40 minutes and then later an older guy for a long time as it got dark outside. That night was considered my 6th month mark cuz there was no 29th so we burned a tie out in the desert area next to our apartment, as the tradition goes. Thursday, we were able to teach a couple who were very nice and we were also able to teach our main investigator. We finally finished the trailer park that day and then that late afternoon we had dinner with the Branch President. That night we had a late dinner and Buffalo Wild Wings which I had never been to before and we all had a bunch of wings. Elder LeCates got the inferno mango flavor or something and was really feeling it Lol. Then we started exchanges that night. Since I am the District Leader I have to take the other Elders in my District on exchanges with me.
Friday I had Elder Bryson with me and we did a lot of tracting but this time it was in a wealthier and spread out neighborhood so there was much more walking from house to house. We had some strange rejections where people would open the door after we started walking away asking if they could help us and then after we started coming back, said "Oh, sorry I can't help you" and shut the door, realizing who we were. It was pretty funny. That night we made sausage and potatoes for dinner and it turned out pretty good. Not the same as Mom's but it was still really good. We seemed to have got a really intense onion though cuz as we diced half of it up it really made the tears flow, lol, we were dying. We had to take turns mincing it and our eyes continued to burn later that night and a little the next morning, haha. We ended exchanges that night.
Saturday, the Oak Grove Elders called us and asked for help with some service so we went and it was at a very nice house with a huge yard. They were raking leaves and there were some trees that had been cut down. We stayed there for a couple hours raking and bagging leaves. We bagged fifty or more bags of leaves and raked more than that. They brought doughnuts and we all devoured three boxes. Mainly the priests from the Oak Grove Ward that were there too. It was fun to get to know them better and do some service. We tracted more later that day and talked with a really funny old guy for a while. He would take everything you say literally and ask a concerned question about it. Jokingly though. It was funny. Elder Christensen asked "what was your name?" the old guy was like, "you don't have one?". . ."why would you assume my name is what?" Anyways, he played with our words a lot and confused the heck out of Elder Christensen.
I get along with Elder Christensen very well, he is a hard worker and so far he is one of my best comps in the field. He and Elder Isaacson are my favorites.
I have been reading in Mosiah about Abinadi and I have just thought about how bold he was to King Noah and his priests and how strong the spirit must have been. It is really cool to read about it and imagine what it was like in that room.
Sunday was Stake Conference, which went well and then we had interviews with our Mission President and those went well too. That night we had dinner with our Branch Mission Leader and the Zone Leaders cuz he attends their ward as well since his wife is white and has a calling there. Anyway, it has been a good week.
Today we are having a big zone P-day and all the District Leaders are coming down and we are all going to play volleyball and either go to a museum or go bowling. Then later we will have a District Leader Conference and then we will have Zone Conference tomorrow. It's gonna be another great week and I look forward to it.
Love,
Elder Acton
All the missionaries at Stake Conference
Dinner at the Branch Mission Leader's
home with the ZL's, Elders Sillytoe and Topham
Sister Gracia, the mission leader's wife,
took this picture and sent it to us.
Elder Acton saying "Hi, Mom" with
his comp, Elder Christensen
Breakfast of Champions
Scrambled Eggs in the waffle maker
6th month mark
traditional burning of a tie
Sausage and Potato dinner at our apartment
Our basketball group
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