May 2, 2016
Dear Family and Friends,
This has been a crazy week for us in the Nebraska Omaha Mission if your names are Elder Draper and Elder Davey.
Monday
we got off to a good start, we hung out with the other Elders and ate
food & had a pool party (like the game no water was involved). Then we
mowed the lawn and went off to teach people! We were able to see Eugenia
and Pepe which was amazing! We helped them get rid of Junk mail mainly
scams of, If you donate money to this charitable organization we are
going to enter you into a contest to win a prize and the fine print was
on the inside of the envelope so that you wouldn't read it. Then there
was a scam (or at least that is what it seemed to me) from a church (I
won't say which). They said write down three wishes you have and then
after writing each wish say sweet Jesus then enclose $20 for each wish
and your prayers will be answered! REALLY?!? I can pay to have my
prayers answered? REALLY?!?? and we told Eugenia, that is a scam, Christ
said thy faith hath made thee whole, and Peter and John told Simon the
sorcerer that thy money perish with thee for thou has thought that the
gifts of God can be bought with money and then she promptly ripped them
up all the papers and tossed them in the Garbage and she declared that
she would not be the victim of a scam again! We then saw the Arvizo
family to help make sure that Jesus was on track for his baptismal date
on Saturday
Tuesday we did our studies and then
before Lunch headed out onto the road for our two-ish hour drive
to North Platte to do exchanges with the Zone leaders. It was a really
good experience and it has been my only real exchange this whole
transfer and that was cool because it meant I got to spend more time in
my Area! However we did good work and we taught a lot of people between
street contacting and contacting potentials so it was fun and I enjoyed
myself. And we also had a little presentation of dating tips from Elder
Davey then the ZLs realized that wait Draper you need these more than we
do you go home soon and I responded no I don't I have been out a little
over a year.
Wednesday we had a mission wide
conference call where President Gardner shared some miracles from the
mission from teaching more about Christ from the Book of Mormon. It was
super cool and it as great for us. Then we drove home to Grand Island we
had lunch with our Branch president and his wife then later his wife
came and met us with a sister who has been less active she has six kids
and her husband isn't a member so that is hard when the kids are
difficult in the mornings so we haven't seen her for a while. We also
saw Rossy one of our other less actives and that was fantastic she is
doing super well, we had only two people at our English classes which
was super sad but it was raining really hard and they were probably all
like ah never mind. So I hope we can get more people to come this week. Then we saw the Arviso Family again and we solidified the baptismal date
he was and is on track to make it.
Thursday was
also great we had district meeting and that was fun and nothing too crazy
other than forgetting the DVD of the District that I needed and rushing
back home to get it but luckily we had enough miles and so we were fine
then we had a lesson with Juan, which Juan ha hah ha, but it was a good
lesson so in teaching him about prophets we read 2 Nephi 31 and showed
how Nephi testified of Christ many hundreds of years before his coming
and that Lehi did the same and we left him with 1 Nephi 10 to
reinforce that so that will be awesome! And next time we will review
Christ's ministry and the apostasy (Today Monday!) Then we got an
appointment with a lady named Araceli who asked us to come back and she
hadn't been available then we took lunch and talked with our friend
Sandra at the Taco Truck and she is Golden she said, I hope my kids can
grow up and be like you and do what you do, I want to see them dressed
up wearing a name tag representing Jesus Christ. 😇 We then rushed off
to Sutton which was a crazy drive trying to get there in time but we did
it we then came back and saw a member who just ranted about how
churches are built up to get gain and we then showed her how our church
isn't, it was kind of funny actually
Friday was
all service and the Baptismal interview of Jesus and he passed it was
funny we did lots of crazy running around
Saturday we did service with the Red Cross installing smoke detectors and
then we did service at the Grand Theater for their free Matinee which
was good, and then we had the baptismal service of Jesus and then we
went back to the Grand theater which was good there was a lot to do on
the clean up end, and that was sweet we got to do stuff then we went and
had dinner at a Chinese restaurant Buffet and that was good then Elder
Davey and I came home and crashed then did weekly planning and that was
pretty much our week just rushing to and fro never stopping for to long
--
Elder Logan Joseph Draper
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