Conner Down Under!: "...fought a good fight, almost puked...." Week 9

hey everyone! so this week has probably been the hardest so far. but its still been good in a way to.

Monday was pday so that was actually a fun day we played ping pong at the church the score was 25 games to 25 games so we played 1 more and I won! so Uncle Andrew and Dad just wait till you have to play me again I can already kill coop and caden wellllllll ya haha. but then we had bible study and we tried to see a potential but she wasn't home.

Tuesday: So Tuesday was a tracting day because evryoone we had planned cancelled so we got to knock a lot af doors. And its hard to tract for a long time and stay up beat because we usually only get a sentence in before they close the door but we did get 2 people to talk to us for a bit but they were just being nice not really that interested in learning. then around 6pm Bro. Stevens called us and said if we wanted we could do a new member lesson with his adopted daughter that was baptized before I was here. So we did that and brought them some pizza and it was good. We taught the plan of salvation using the little thing I made and it went well. Bro. Stevens gave us a couple refferals to some friends of his to. later that evening we stopped by the rowleys and got ryan to commit to come to mutal Wednesday but johnathan said there was no way so that was a bummer.

Wednesday: the first thing we did is we went out and tried to contact the refferals which was hard because people give weird directions here they say like oh drive to this place and then you will see this and go about a mile or two past it and you will see this and its across the road from there up some holler. so we finally found them but no one answered. we had an appointment with 2 of our investigators and they both cancelled so we went and did more tracting and no one talked to us that time people laughed at us a couple times though cause they were not all there though haha. Luckily Chris didn't cancel on us so we went and taught him a lesson we read the scrips with him and answered some questions. we took mickey to mutal and called to see if we needed to get ryan Rowley a ride and he said is mom was taking them and johnathan was coming to! so that was so awesome. Last time they came the other guys picked on them so before they got there I talked to them and they were really nice to them so it was a awesome time.

Thursday: on Thursday once again appointments got cancelled so we did more tracting! till about 5pm then we went to momma janes for dinner and after that we went to correlation meeting with the ward missionaries it was a good meeting and we got a lot figured out.

Friday: on Friday we did a lot of service taking down the Christmas lights in the park I gotta drive this huge f550 so that was fun and I gotta get in the bucket and mess around with it the old guys that owned it told me to haha. but after that we did more tracting for a couple hours and then we went to go to our appointment with ron and brit and they were not home so we were kinda weird and tried to find them cause we know if they are gone they are buying more cigarettes so we found them but they didn't have time to meet I guess.

Saturday we helped take down the lights again then we did more tracting haha. its super disheartening but we love doing it. we did find one person who said we could come back so that's good. Later on we had another lesson with Chris we watched the restoration video with him and answered more questions he has a lot of weord and hard to answer questions so we just do our best like he got really caught up on the 3 and 8 witnesses in the beginning being all men? but ya it went good he hasn't really been reading so we have been calling him every night and asking him to read or reading with him. hopefully he will start having a desire to read and pray.

Sunday was good we went to the Big Ugly and saw a lot of people. we went down with beccah and monnie to see the trailor they want to move into and we are gonna help them fix it up! it needs a lot done but we should be able to do it they think we know how to do everything haha. And I may have run my mouth a little to much because I was just saying what I always heard dad say when he looked at stuff but I don't actually know what to do haha.

Monday we had a awesome p day we went with some other missionarys in the zone to this place called hillbilly hot dogs and it is crazy its a bunch of buses welded together and shacks and stuff and they have this food challenge called the widow maker and it is this giant hot dog that is 15 inches long and weighs alone 5 pounds and then its in a giant bun with a huge mound of toppings on it and you have to eat it all in 12 min. so of course I did it, all the other elders wussed out haha but in the end I fought a good fight almost puked and didn't finish it by like 30 seconds! but then we went and had a zone pday and it was a good time.

That's pretty much our week love you all.

Elder White