This has been a great and
interesting week. Monday, after emails, we went to the stake center as
usual. I played around with my slings and it was amusing, and a
disclaimer: I do not plan to hurt any living creature with them because
it would be mean and not what Christ would want me to do, (snakes in my
house may be an exception though it hasn't happened). Well we went to
dinner at a members house from the Seward branch and they thought we
weren't coming because the other Elders called and they missed the call,
ya da ya da ya du. Well it was funny, we had some great last minute chili
dogs and that was perfect. Nothing too fancy, just good old food.
Tuesday
was great, we went out to Grand Island and met the new mission
president, President Gardner. He is from Cache Valley, Utah though he
grew up in the Holladay area and went to Olympus High School. His
wife went to Skyline and they met at BYU, and they both graduated from
the U of U! Good old mix! We then came back and visited as many of the
less actives from the Seward branch in Crete as we could, and that was
all good. I love teaching people, it is fun. We had good lessons with
everyone, some were short and sweet, some were good decent chats/ lessons.
Wednesday
we didn't get much done on the actual teaching side. We spent lots of
time walking around trying to find people but that didn't work out
because walking takes time, and we sometimes walk slow. So there is not
much we can do but we did go to a little picnic thing at assisted
living facility with a less active lady, who was really excited to have
us come be her guests since she has never had a guest at that event
before. So that was super sweet, we did wish we could have stayed for the
fireworks but we had to go try to see people.
Thursday
wasn't the most productive day, but we did get three lessons. We did service. so it was a good day. I mowed a lawn in the rain and got super
soaked, then we went and had Chinese food at a Chinese buffet. It was
good, cooked properly, no weird tasting nastiness. We then went and did
service at the thrift store and picked up the leather for Sling 2.0, Goliath slayer. It will be cool. I will send you a picture next p-day. We
then went and play basketball with an investigator, and then we went and
tried another family and had a great lesson with them. They took us straight into the Plan of Salvation without us even trying. They had the
perfect questions and we have the answers, so it was so nice. Then we
hopped across town to another family for dinner, and seeing what service
we could do for them.
Friday
we actually got to do weekly planing and I got a haircut (the haircut
place is closed on Mondays who would have thought). We had a great
lesson with Sandi. We watched the Restoration video with her and she said
at the end, "I believe he [Joseph Smith] probably had a vision, I am not
quite ready to read The Book of Mormon." Progress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saturday,
Independence Day, we went to Foodnet, gased our apartment for cockroaches
and went to Beatrice to see a family. Teaching the family didn't work
as planned, because they were having a carne asada (roast) but I talked with the
dad's best friend, a really honest guy, not perfect but honest. We talked
for two hours about God and the Bible and he is a solid good man, not
perfect but good, I hope we can teach him again and tell him more about
the restoration because he seemed to had good questions about all of
that. Then we came home and watched fireworks from off our apartment
balcony. That was fun, then we went in and went to bed.
Sunday
we got a ride to church from Brother Wardle. It was fantastic. We had some
good lessons in Priesthood and Gospel Principles, and that was so good. We had one lesson with Dustin and he is hopefully going to read/listen
to The Book of Mormon, so that is good. We shocked him, the Gospel Library doesn't use WiFi. Wow, cool but surprising. So that was our week. I
hope you all have a good week and read your scriptures, and take
advantage of our freedom of religion.
Love Logan Joseph Draper
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