So this week was awesome, we did so much and i always forget to bring my journal so i forget what is going on and what to write about haha.
Monday: on monday we went down to the senators and for our p-day we played monopoly and other board games with our investigator chris and just really got to know him better. We had a great time. then we studied isaiah in bible study with some of the less active and active members over in Elder and Sister morgans apartment (they are the senior couple). We tried to knock some doors but no one answered.
Tuesday: On tuesday we had a crazy experience that put us in some danger i cant really say what or who but we almost got transfered out of this area!
Wednesday: ummm on wednesday we went and taught chris about prayer and how he could hear the answer that the Spirit gave him. it was a good lesson and he really understood it. we did some more tracting and it was hard but awesome because it was snowing like crazy and tons of wind so it was really cold walking around!
Thursday: thursday was probably our best day this week we went to a refferal that we had gotten from ron and brittany who our 2 of our investigators. we went and knocked on this door and this lady that i swore was 100 but turned out to be 50 answered the door. she invited us in and she has a 19 year old son that lives with her. we talked for a while then we shared the restoration lesson and she began to tear up during it and her son was interested they both agreed to read and pray! Then we went and visited a less/in active family and they live in a trailor (like everyone else) but theres is just falling apart and they have a dog that they keep inside and it just pees and poops everywhere and they dont clean it up and there are bugs everywhere! but she is divorced and has a 14 and 12 year old son and a 18 year old daughter who is getting married to a guy who she has met once and then he left for the army and texted her asking if she wanted to get married while he was drunk and she said yes so yaaaa. but ryan the 12 year old is a genius he like builds computers and stuff and he makes cool assasin creed weapons that actually work! he makes my invention stuff look like what cooper and caden make haha just kiddin guys. but he likes us alot and we are really trying to get him to church he is like cannons size and last time he came like 4 months ago to church he got bullied by some of the young men so thats why he wont come back. And then the 14 year old he just shuts himself in his room and locks it everytime we come. I finally got him to come out because i heard avatar the last air bender playing and started talking to him about it and we talked about pokemon and other nerdy stuff so he likes me now! then we went and we tracted a whole neighborhood we knocked every door and no one was willing to talk to us and alot opened the door and we would say "hi we are missionarys for the church of" and they would slam the door or say not interested and close the door. So it was discouraging but literally the very last house in the neighborhood probably like the 40 house we had knocked this old lady answered and said come on in and we were able to teach the restoration and leave her with a book of mormon and she said she would read it! so all in all it was a good day.
Friday: friday was district meeting we have to drive the farthest by far because our mission area is in the middle of nowhere most people have a 30 min. drive we have a 2 hour drive so meetings take most of our day usually. but we left for the meeting at 7:30 and got home at 4:30. district meeting was really awesome though. we got there and we sing a song and then Elder Signs our district leader says and now Elder White is gonna give the 5 min. principle from preach my gospel on having faith to find. so i got up and talked about it and shared some scrips but i guess he had texted us saying that i needed to prepare for that and we never got it so it was not great but its pretty easy to teach out of a book that teaches you how to teach. we got to teach the senators again that night we read the story of ammon and they loved it. We got back visited some less actives and ate dinner.
Saturday: saturday was good we went up to the Big ugly for breakfast at momma janes she is the only one that feeds us and every saturday she does it she has her fam. over and its always a good time. They just got a ping pong table so we used it to get paul to open up to us more his wife is a member but he isnt and he has 2 sons who are 19 and 15 but he wont let them be baptized till they are 18 which is a bumer but we got him to play and i am the champ no one can touch me haha. but we went later that day and back to the rowleys to visit ryan and johnathan it was good we talked and commited them and there mom and sister to come to church.
Sunday: yesterday there was a ton of people at church like probably 50! and Sister rowley and her daughter came but not ryan or johnathan sadley. But we are sitting up on the stand since we bless the sacrament and all of the sudden i hear my name and they said i was speaking in place of sis. beright who was sick. well i was the last speaker and ended up with like 30 min to fill! I grabed a hymn book and opened it to a random page and spoke on it haha it was hymn 226 improve the shinning moments. I was able to do it and half decently to haha. That was a pretty nerve racking experience! but sunday afternoon we went and taught ranae and her son again they are the refferal from ron and brit. we showed the restoration video and bore a testimony of the truthfulness of it and left with a prayer it waqs really awesome. As we were walking down the mountain we saw that ron and brits lights were on they had been out of town all week so we went overe and visited with them set up a appointment gave then some scriptures to read and left with a prayer. then as we were driving back we were like lets get an itl *(invitation to learn) so we went and looked for people but it was pitch black and raining pretty good so no one was out so we went to mcdonalds to go through the drive through to itl them and we just bought an icecream cone and it was good we itl'ed them and got the ice cream cone for free. but as we were driving back elder clawson was like elder white think and i was like ummm about what and he said we are gonna get sent home and i was like why? and then i looked at the icecream cone and realized it was sunday! we bought an ice cream cone on sunday so now when we teach those people and we teach them about keepin the sabbath day holy its gonna be kinda awkward haha.
love you all
Elder White
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