Dear Family and friends
I have currently misplaced my planner, I don't
know where to, so I am writing you free of notes relying wholly upon my
brain which we know from having served as a missionary for over a year
is rather holy in both senses of the word. Well I gave Elder Phillips
the phone while we were at the church because I was running in circles
in the hall because it forms a loop so I did that. Well after dinner we
realized WE HAVE NO PHONE! So we spent forever trying to get into the
church and then trying to get keys, finally we decided to camp out at the
Zone leaders apartment for a while to wait for them, since they had a
key. They came in handed us our phone and we ran back to Crete so that
was our adventure, NO PHONING it Stinks!!!
So on Tuesday I held on to my phone so we did
our service and Elder Phillips and I dropped of packages at the post
office. He also got a hair cut, since the place in town that we go to
is closed on Mondays. So that stinks but we did it on Tuesday. We then
did service at the thrift store then rushed home for a lesson which fell
through :( So we went to our assisted living facility and talked with
some people there before coming home for dinner. We then tried a family,
and the kids were like come back tomorrow at 4:00 our dad will be home.
Then that night we went and helped finish up some service for our recent
convert.
Wednesday we do lots of service for our less
active members in Crete, which was tons of fun. I really enjoyed it
stocking the store and pulling weeds. It really was therapeutic to do
something where my mind could take a break. After that we cleaned up and
did our studies, then went to the investigators' house and the dad was
like, I am about to go to work how about you guys come back tomorrow at
1:00 that way my wife will be here too. So we went and tried some people
and it was good.
Thursday we altered district meeting times to
conform with our appointment and that was good. I had a good training
thing prepared. I kind of winged it since the topic/question was "How
does inviting others to be baptized fulfill our missionary
purpose?"........... um......... our missionary purpose is "We invite
others to come unto Christ through.......... baptism um ya that is our
purpose so I gave a training on how understanding the purpose and
importance of baptism helps us to teach it better/ help us understand
the why of inviting. Well we rushed back to Crete had a fantastic lesson
then went on to try some other people and that was fantastic. We also
went to our next standing appointment, ya they were not available and
that was sad.
Friday we had the Hollists, a family from the Pioneer ward, come down and have dinner with us, then go to visit some
families. Only one was home and it was a good visit with the family, I
felt like we were really blessed to have them down there with us. After
that we went home and taught one of our neighbors and it had been a long
time since we had sat down and talked, but we talked of the Priesthood
and the Atonement, and how through Christ we can become perfected and it
is God's plan to refine us.
Saturday we had Foodnet and it was good. The
only thing of note from that was two people started fighting over the
food, it was sad. Pride came out in many different people. It was just a
mess, all I could do was sing some hymns to myself as the head person
tried to calm the sides down. It wasn't good. Well our appointments fell
through, but we had a late lunch with a member and that was good. Then we
went and saw our other neighbor, Sandi, and she had her doors locked. Which
wasn't too weird, but all her windows were shut which wasn't too weird. Her
blinds were all the way shut so when she saw it was us she opened the
door and we had a good lesson with her. She told us that some of the
neighbors were harassing her because she wouldn't drink with them and
then they would name call her when she would take her dog out to use the
bathroom. So it was sad we reminded her we were there, we can't do a lot
but we can help you out we are your neighbors too. So that was good. She
accepted the commitment to read from The Book of Mormon!!!! Not any
chapters about doctrine per se, but she said she would read some of the
chapters on Captain Moroni. So we are still doing a happy dance!
Sunday we had a good day at church and then
we went to a dinner appointment in Lincoln, and that took a while. So we
got back late and decided to clean up our books in preparation for IPads.
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