Week 46 Lots of Exchanges!

Monday, July 16, 2018

Dear Mom,

This week has been full of exchanges.
Monday, the Columbia Elders came down for P-day and for exchanges the next day. we all played some ball and I love playing basketball with other elders and I hope the next place I go to has elders nearby that I can continue to play with. We all got Olive Garden for lunch and then emailed and then that night Elder Lakey was with Elder Stubbs and I and we visited a few people for a lesson or two.
Tuesday we all had some good breakfast, eggs and bacon and grits. Elder Budrow and I went to Columbia to visit some people up there; some of my investigators and some of his. We also went to a buffet that missionaries eat for free at and ate some good lunch. Then we came back and we taught a lesson to our main investigator and we read in the Book of Mormon with her. We had dinner with the Armentas later that night and it was some real good food.
Wednesday we had district meeting and the Zone Leaders attended this one and we had some new things we needed to do because of being in the new mission and it was a bit different but still a good meeting. After district meeting our exchange with the Columbia Elders ended but then our exchange with the ZL's started. I was with Elder Worlton and we visited a couple people and we had a couple lessons which went really well. We then came back to their pad that night and he had left over spaghetti so I showed him how to fry it up in an egg scramble for dinner and it was really good. Then Elder Stubbs and Elder Lakis got back a bit later.
Thursday we had our studies and stewardships with them and then we went and got lunch and headed to an appointment. It fell through so we then met Tanner at our pad and then went to some other appointments and we were able to have a few good lessons. Then we had to go back home for language study because it was really hot and Elder Stubbs wasn't doing too good. We then had a dinner appointment and then had another lesson that evening.
Friday we did our studies and then we had Smoothie King and Taco Bell for lunch. We then did our weekly planning and then had a lesson with our investigator Earline and then we did a bit of tracting and tried to visit a couple other people. We then had dinner with the Oak Grove Elders at TGI Fridays for Friday the 13th. We started our exchange with them after that.
Saturday I had Elder Starks with me and we went to Sumrall and visited people up there and we also did some tracting. For lunch we came back got a coupon and we went to Papa Murphy's Pizza, the only one I've seen in the South. We got a 5 meat stuffed but it was super good and at a super good price!! We then went and did some tracting. Our district decided to set aside a certain time on Saturday to tract as a district all at the same time. They chose 4 which was super hot and we sweated so much!!
Sunday was pretty good, we had one person come to the Spanish branch which was nice and then that evening we had dinner with the Cardenas family and took pics with them cuz they are leaving on vacation to France and I will probably be gone by the time they get back.
Today we played basketball again and went to Buffalo Wild Wings for lunch for Elder Wiscombe's birthday. Until next week!

Love,
Elder Acton

Me, Brother Tanner Sperry, and Elder Stubbs