You basically have to accept the fact of being tired 24/7, but, there's nothing else like serving a mission.
"Everything good that's happened to me, in all the years that have since passed, I can trace back to my experience as a missionary." - President Hinckley.
Setting the bar high!
This past week was quite the week. Blessings. Bikes stolen. New investigators. Appointments falling through like no body's business. Lots of peanut butter and honey sandwiches.
Let's start with last night!
Last night after two appointments fell through, bleh, we had a elderly lady who's a member who wanted a blessing in the hospital. We went over and gave her one and then went from house to house to see who was home. While on exchanges earlier in the week (we went on two 24 hour exchanges and one two hour), Elder Hall and his comp. found where a member lived. So our member went with us to her house. She's a full blooded indian! Pretty rad. She's pretty active but has been sick. Her daughter was there which we've never seen before. We felt inclined to share a message about the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Elder Hall shared Alma 7:11-12 and later I shared Mosiah 7:11 before leaving. The lesson went well and her daughter's concerns was fear of her kids having to grow up in this world. Can't blame her really. She will be having another kid THIS Friday. Crazy. Both Jerilyn and her mom had tears in their eyes during the lesson. The spirit was there and she wanted us to come over....BEFORE her belly pops on Friday.
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| This is Elder Banner. Awesome exchange. |
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| You get entertained by the smallest and dumbest things on a mission. It's great. |
One of the exchanges we went on was with Elder Banner...guess where he's from?....Layton! Awe yeah. He goes home next transfer, but turns out, we know each other pretty well. We probably hung out together and know each other's friends. It was crazy to tell people we're both from Layton, Utah when we asked. It was a good exchange as we found a couple new investigators and taught a few lessons. Sick. Also went on an exchange with Elder Bouwhuis who is a Zone Leader in another zone. We are also both from Layton. Goood stuff.
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| Another exchange serving in the only ASL part of the mission. Brushin' up on some ASL! |
While walking down the sidewalk, a group of people yelled, "Heyy!!....do you know you look like Eminem!?" hahah Elder Banner and I started laughing. We later learned he just came out with a new album or something haha. Pretty funny. I'll rap about the Gospel I guess.
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| Checkin' out a referral yo. |
One of the new invests. we found this past week is Don. He's awesome. He was very accepting of a return visit this week and also accepted a BoM. Really hope things work out with him.
This past week was a weird week...in a sense that our district's #'s weren't as high, along with ours. Everyone said they were out working and just couldn't find anyone interested and that tons of appointments fell through. I remember in this past District Meeting focusing on 'consistency' within our own efforts. It seems it's just a test of our faith as a whole, and feel that things will look up in a couple weeks. We tend to go through something to help us recognize more, right before something good happens. We're hoping this follows that.
We have a General Authority speaking to us this Thursday! YES! Elder Paul Johnson of the 70 will be speaking to us missionaries down here. Man we are stoked as. That should give us all a good chunk of motivation to be diligent. WOOT!
Alma 29:10
Ether 6:8 "..the wind did never cease to blow towards the promised land." God has prompted us towards the promises he has given us. We must keep pushing forth and do our best!
D&C 6:11, 22-24.
"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
boom.
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| PDAY! |
If you don't enjoy what you do, you're screwed. Yup.
Well time is about up. Thank you everyone for the prayers and support. It's just an awesome thing to have so many loved ones back home. Peace out yo.
Stay real.
-Elder Dallin Hales
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