Week 74 It's a Small World

Hello everyone! It's been an okay week. Nothing too bad. My heart goes out to the passing of our prophet this week. For as long as I can remember, he has been a very inspiring man. Someone I have looked up to a lot. It's sad to see him gone, but that's life. We need to move on from this world somehow, right?

Well anyway, here is my week.

Monday

We did a lot on Monday. We started with emailing. Then we went and played soccer at the high school field. That was a lot of fun, kinda felt like Snohomish again. After, we went shopping. Then we drove to the church to play basketball, lots of running was involved today. So much that by the end of p-day my legs got tired, and it was hard to walk for the rest of the night. After, we got changed and then had dinner. From dinner, we then went and had a lesson with the Lauson family. We taught about faith in Jesus Christ. After, we went and saw some people around them before we called it a night.

Tuesday

We had a full day planned out with lessons for new investigators, but none of them happened except 2. We had 7 lessons planned, but they almost all fell through. The two lessons we did have were with Ann and Patrick. With Ann, we followed up on the word of wisdom and had a lesson on obedience. She understood it very well. I think I mentioned it before. She has a vape problem. We told her she needs to stop doing it, and she says she is stopping. She feels guilty for doing it now that she knows it's wrong. The other lesson we had was with Patrick. We talked about the word of wisdom with him too because we thought he was chewing tobacco, but it turns out he's not. He is actually smoking marijuana for anxiety problems. So we'll talk about that with him too. Nothing else really happened that day.

Wednesday

We had district meeting that day. Elder Hunter instructed on setting goals for the new year, and not looking back to the past. After, we had lunch at Magic Dragon. Good eats. From there, we went home and planned out our day. Then we went to do some service for Sister Heffernan. She wanted us to come paint for her. So we did that. After, we got changed and went to go see some people with Blake Clapp, a priest in our ward. After we saw the people, we went to Chelsea Duff's home to give her the stop smoking program. I think I talked about her last week. She was wanting to stop smoking, but she didn't know how. We gave her a blessing and said we would be over again on Wednesday to give her the program. We took away her cigarettes and crushed them, and then we went and bought all the things she needed for the program. That took up the rest of the night, and so far she hasn't been smoking yet, so she is doing really good. God is answering our prayers for her with that blessing I gave.

Thursday

We started with comp study. After, we went to see some people over by Jovan, but no one was really home. Then we went back to the apartment to do some area book work. From there, we went to Buffalo Wild Wings for lunch with the Stillaguamish elders. We had a good time. Sorry about the pics. I wanted to get more, but I felt that the other Elders were not going to be willing to take some more. It's complicated... Anyway, later that day we had a lesson with a new investigator Atreal, and we taught him the restoration. Everything went well, and we were so happy to find someone new, but we then found out yesterday that he didn't want to meet any more. We don't know why. Elder Hunter says he got anti-ed, but I feel like assuming that is just too much. After our lesson, we went and saw more people around him. Then we went home and had dinner. Then we ended the night with 12 weeks.

Lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings

Friday

We started with the food bank. We did some service for them. After, we had a lesson with Nikki Decker. We just read scriptures with her. Then we had lunch. From there we then had a lesson with Melissa. We taught her about tithing and fast offerings. After that lesson, we had another lesson with Gabriella, and we taught her about praying and reading often, Obedience, and living the law of the land. Pretty straight forward. After, we came home and had personal study. Then we went to dinner with the zone leaders, at the William's home. Then we went to the church, and elder Hunter got some MLC info from the zone leaders. We then came home and did comp study and 12 weeks. 

Saturday

We started by doing service for Sister Schwager and putting in the trees that her mom gave her for her yard. After, we went home and did weekly planning and comp study. Then we had lunch. After lunch, we went and saw people in the Lodge and Carols Creek. After, we did some more weekly planning. Then we had dinner, and then went home to do 12 weeks. After, we had a meeting with Brother Lytle, our ward mission leader. We talked about our work. Then we came back and saw some people in the villas. 

Sunday

We went to the 9:00 church because we had some investigators say they were going to go to that time, but they never showed, so we left half way through. We came home and did personal study. Then we planned out our day and went off to ward council. We then went through the services. Then we went home and finished our personal studies. From there, we went to dinner. After, we went to see a potential named Kari, but she wasn't home. So we went back home to get picked up by Brother Hayes to go teach their family. We showed them the pattern of light videos and talked about personal revelation. After, we got dropped off back at our place and did 12 weeks for the rest of the night. 

Well, that's the week for me! Funny story... I found out yesterday that Sister Navratil knows the Fosters really well! She told me that she knows Kim and was her flower girl for their wedding, which now that I think about it, I might have met Sister Navratil before, but I'm not sure. She did seem familiar when I met her. It's so funny how much of a small world we live in. That really made me happy yesterday. Well that's my week for you. I hope you all have a great week, and I'll see you soon! 

Elder Hammond