Monday
I told you a little bit of what happened. We had a zone breakfast in the morning. Then we went to Bro Cox's home to call home. While we were there, he let us play his kids laser tag and pool. That was really fun. Then we spent the rest of the day emailing and having snow ball fights. We had good fights, but Elder Hunter accidentally threw one right into my mouth, and the next thing I knew I was throwing up snow. Not fun.. but things happen. I'm fine. After, we had dinner and then went in for the night.
Tuesday
We started the day with comp study and 12 weeks. Then we went to have a lesson with Jovan, but he fell through on us. So we just went home and had lunch. After, we then went and saw some people. We were going to have a lesson with someone named Atrail, but he fell through on us too. Later that night, we had dinner. Then we said hi to Patrick and some other people we had down before we went to the Sudweeks to drop off some presents the ward gave us for them. Then we went and did some training with Elder Graff on the computers. That ended our night.
Wednesday
We had a lesson with Melissa in the morning. That went well. We talked about the word of wisdom, something she is working on already. After, we then had district meeting. Elder Hunter talked about faith and how it allows us to change and repent to become the missionaries the lord requires us to be. After, we went on an exchange with Sholtes, and Elder Hatch came with us to Lakewood. We left Elder Graff behind... in Sholtes. So when we got back to the apartment, we got changed and went to Firetrail's area and helped with service. After a little while, the rest of the zone joined us, so we decided to leave. We were going to get changed and have a lesson, but Kayla Duff canceled on us. Later in the week, she dropped us. She said she was going through a hard time and needed to figure out her life before she joins the church... um that's how the church can help! Oh well, people have agency. Some days you don't worry about it, and other times you stand with J. Gordan Kimble, and say "it would be easier to kill everyone off and do baptisms for the dead for them." Then again, we would be forcing more than giving free will. Something Lucifer wanted in the beginning. Anyway, we had lunch, and then we went and had a lesson with a guy named Timmy. I think I talked about him a little bit. He was a former investigator. Anyway, we're teaching him again. He wants to learn what we're all about, so we're going to help him with that. After, we had a lesson with Sister Schwagert. We talked about setting a goal to take the sacrament, and so far she is doing well. She was at church yesterday. That took up a good amount of the night. After, we came home, did personal study, then comp, then we planned out the rest of the night. Then we had dinner and went and saw people around our dinner before the night was over.
Thursday
We went and saw some people in the morning. We went and saw a referral from a non-member. Her name was Jenifer. We just went over to see if she needed any help with service. Then we went and exchanged back with Sholtes. After, we had lunch at BW's because it wasn't open on Monday, and they had really good deals for the day. So that was great only because we had almost $100 to BW's, so why not, right?! We did comp study while we were there too. After, we then had a lesson with Melissa on baptism and confirmation. Then we went to a lesson with a girl named Tosha. She seems really solid. She went through a really hard time growing up and now really wants to find Jesus in her life for her and her son. Her son was a miracle. She had gone through a lot of suffering, and when she got married all she wanted was one kid, and she wanted a boy. The doctors said she couldn't get pregnant, but she still wanted this kid. So she prayed about it and asked God for it, and because of her faith, she got him. Really cool story. I just wish she wasn't being so flaky. Later in the day, we had a lesson with the Millers and were able to get them signed up on family search. Then we had dinner that night and finished with comp study and 12 weeks.
Friday
We had to have a day this week were we couldn't use our car or go back to the apartment for the whole day. President wanted us to sacrifice some things so we could get new investigators this week. So we were going to do service, but Elder Graff was feeling pain in his legs so we had to wait at the church until he started to feel better. Then Jeff Hyer from the Snohomish Ward came up and drove us around for the day. It was great! We had lots of fun with him. He's a great guy. We went and apologized to the person we were doing service for and got it rescheduled. Then we went and saw a lot of people with Jeff. We also had comp study and lunch with him too. Later that day, we had a lesson with Orion. We read scriptures with him. We read 1 Nephi 11. We said goodbye to Jeff, and we got picked up by Ryan Brower and went to go see some more people. While we were with him, we gave a blessing to Sister Muckala's daughter. I did it with Ryan, and it was his first time. After, he took us to dinner. We had dinner with the Navratils. Fun family, two cute kids. After, Brother Navratil took us home.
Saturday
We started with doing service for Sister Schwagert. Her mom wanted us to come help move some things. So we did that and that took up all the morning. After, Sister Schwagert took us to Wendy's and then took us back to her house so we could change and go to our lesson with Timmy. Sadly, that lesson fell through. After, we went to have a lesson with Tosha, but it fell through too. So we went and saw some people around their homes. After, we went home, had dinner, and did 12 weeks. Then we did weekly planning for the rest of the night.
Sunday
We had ward council in the morning. Then we went through the services. After, we went home, had lunch, and then tried to have a lesson with the Pauls, but they were not home, so we went home and planned the rest of the day and did some personal study. Then we went and saw some people. We went to the farthest part of our area to try to use miles since it was the end of the month. It was great! We had to go through Stillaguamish to get to there. I got to see some of the old roads I drove on with the jeep. Later that night we had dinner with the Homesteads, played some games with them, and shot some fire works. Then we went home and ended the night.
Well that was the week. I hope everyone had a good week, and I'll see you soon.
Elder Hammond
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