Hey Hey! Another week has come and gone! Can you believe it? I find it hard to think that I'm on the downward slope of my mission; it has truly been the best year ever! No complaints even in the down times – it makes me stronger and shapes me as a missionary/person. This week was a little slower because people are trying to get the last week of summer fun in before school starts up again this next week, We had some killer lessons and talk about some serious discernment. Well this week has been good let me tell ya about it!
Tuesday (14th)-- Today we went to Preacher Greg Coans first thing in the morning and had a casual visit with him. Then we got in the Bible a little bit - He started to bash a little bit so I made a promise to myself that I would never bible bash so we changed the conversation. After the lesson we headed to the mission nurses house and helped her and her husband move the furniture into their new house with Elder Bailey and Elder Miles. We were there for most of the day - they also made us lunch and a big one too! We had steak, potatoes, and salad, with chocolate cake for dessert. It was good. After we got done with that we headed back to the house got our bikes and then went to dinner at a Scout Pack Meeting at the Park near our house then we went around and made some visits. We met an investigator named Chainy Roads and he is great! I really think we can have some great success with him! He used to live in Star a few years ago so we were able to talk about people we knew and turns out we know a lot of the same people and we're great friends with them. His wife is a very active member of our church - she's in the Young Women's I believe.
Wednesday (15th)-- Today I got up and got ready, I studied Matthew 1-13 and had a great time studying it and learning all the things our Savior did my Matthew is really marked up! I could definitely feel the Spirit while I was reading. Went out contacting and had a few good conversations. Went and got free snow cones down at the Maverick gas station where the Elders get them for free. I got a large tigers blood gotta love tiger blood snow cones. After that we went and did some more contacting in that area and then we went to dinner with the Former Elder Quorum President - The Allen Family. They are super cool. We were there for like 2 hours just talking about missions and it was a ton of fun!! He had some great stories. Then we went and saw a part member family name the Kirk’s as we do every Wednesday and we talked about life after death. He’s a little nervous since his kids and wife isn't baptized that they might not be able to live together so we addressed that and that God is our loving Heavenly Father and that He is the only one that can make those calls and just exercise our faith.
Thursday (16th)-- Today we got did our morning usual then headed to the church to do our weekly planning! That took a long time today because we were both out of it and couldn't keep our attention! It took forever and then we had a hard time finding members, investigators home to teach. Then we had dinner tonight with the Testa Family - we all got talking about the Gospel in general. After that we took some letters/notes around to some families that Elder Bennett likes and that helps builds member trust.
Friday (17th)-- This morning we headed to the church and had our weekly District Meeting and had district lunch. We got trained on Christ-Like attributes - went well. For lunch we went to 5 Guys and a member paid for all of us. He went up to the cash register and dropped a $100 bill on the table and said this is for them. Talk about a blessing! It was neat. Once we got done with DM and lunch we headed to our house and got on our bikes and went and visited some investigators we went to the Tuiolasanga's and we visited with them and then we headed with the dad to drop his son off at his work. We then went to dinner with a family that has 3 boys from ages 17-21 and they lost their dad a few years ago. After that visit we headed to do some service for some potential investigators but they didn't answer. We then headed to Ella's house one of our investigators to do some yard work. While we were mowing the lawn she asked if I needed dust pan since she doesn't have a blower so I have to sweep it off the side walk with a broom - takes FOREVER! So she comes up to me and asks if I need a dust pan and I said sure that'd be great and brings out a big snow shovel! Hahaha! That was way funny; she can't pick things up when she walks because she shuffle her feet while she walks. It was so so so hard not to laugh when I saw her bring me this “dust pan” and it was really a huge snow shovel and I’m from Southern Utah and have never used a snow shovel in my life LOL. I'll have to record a video of me using it next time so you will understand more of what I'm talking about!
Saturday (18th)-- This morning we went to the School across the street from our house to help the Hunter Ward with some service that involved cleaning the school and pulling weeds, etc... After that we got ready for the day and then did our studies then we had lunch and then went to the church to do our weekly progress records and then went and delivered them to the Ward mission leaders and bishops and stake president. After that we headed to dinner, after dinner we went and visited some members to see if they were working with anyone and if we could help them at all. Got a call from Michelle Adams saying she bought us groceries and that they had ice cream cake that they wanted us to come over and have with them so we did. She bought us a TON of groceries and this really really helps out with the money situation.
Sunday (19th)-- Went to the Hunter Ward at 9am then to Settler's Bridge at 11am after sacrament we went with 2 priests to a members house to assist them with shut-ins then headed back to the last ward of the day we finished up there. Then went on splits from 3-4 with the Meridian 2nd ward and then went to a lesson with an investigator named Chin Ponasa. The lesson plan was to talk about enduring to the end but it came to what were his hold ups with the church and not getting baptized because he's doing everything he should. He opened up and said he wants to be “all in” but has some reservation but he wouldn't tell us what they were. So I expressed the importance of reading and prayer and asked if he was reading and praying by himself and the answer was no. I was EXTREMELY shocked at the fact that other previous elders had never committed him to read and pray by himself. As we know this is key to all conversions. So as I mentioned earlier everyone thinks he's ready but in reality he's not that close but can be if he commits to read and pray and listens to the spirit. It was a great lesson with some inspired questions.
After dinner we went to an investigators house Jeff Moebuis and helped him move some furniture so that the carpet cleaners could come and clean his carpets in the morning early. We also taught them about building a strong testimony and he is a fire fighter so we related the gospel to fire fighting. Our analogy was that a fire (the Spirit) is small at first but if we do the right things the fire (spirit) begins to grow within ourselves and when we don't build up our foundation our fire gets smaller. He really liked that and was impressed that we could relate it back to his job.
Monday P-Day (20th)-- Wow I just typed in the "20th" and realized that another month is almost done! Holy cow I seriously can't believe how fast time is going! Today we went to our church and played volleyball with a good 20+ missionaries and had a great time! :) Then we went to lunch at Subway - I was able to use my Subway cards that you guys sent up at Christmas. After lunch we went to Big Al's Bowling Center (brand new) and 17 of us went bowling it was ton of fun!! After bowling we played some arcade games we played air hockey 4 ways! It's an actual table with 4 players set out - everyone against everyone. The arcade is huge!! Then we headed to Wal-Mart where I got a few hygiene products ( soap, and shaving cream ) now I can be smelling nice ;) now doing e-mails and heading back home and will visit some people tonight and have some dinner.
It's been a good week but with summer coming to a close and school starting up we should have even more success. In the splits with Meridian 2nd ward we were able to find 4 potential investigators that we will be dropping by this week to see if we can't get them to let us share the gospel with them! :). I'm glad you guys enjoyed the SD card and had fun watching it. I'll send this one a lot sooner than 8 months before. You did have a lot to watch though I bet that was fun! :) Well I got to head out now. Have a great week.
Love you and miss you so much! CTR
-Elder TJ Hardy
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