Hello everyone. This week has been an amazing week, full of fun, but not really a lot of success. So let's get to it.
Monday:
We didn't really have a p-day because that was on Thursday, for Thanksgiving. But we did get to go shopping and emailing, so that was great. After doing all of that, we then came home and got changed to go do some service for a less active member. We raked some leaves for her. I've got some pics below to show that. After, we came home and had some lunch and did comp study. Then we went and saw some people before dinner. We really didn't meet anyone cool. We had dinner, and then we went and helped the ward deliver Thanksgiving baskets to ward members that needed them. After, we went home and did some area book work and that ended our night.
Tuesday:
We started the day with seeing some people in the lodge apartments by our house. After, we went home and had lunch and comp study. Then we went to go see Jovan, a new investigator from last week, but he wasn't home so we had to just move on. We went and saw some people. Nothing interesting. Then we went to dinner and went and met with Bishop. And that ended the night.
Wednesday:
We had district meeting, and Elder Hunter instructed on the importance of keeping the area book up to date and how to inform members properly about lessons you are teaching. After, we came home, had lunch, and then had comp study. After, we got changed and went to go paint at one of our member's houses. She had a wall that needed to get painted, so we did that. After painting it for an hour and a half, we went home and got changed to go to a lesson with Melissa. We taught her about the gospel of Jesus Christ. She really liked it. After, we went and saw some more people, had dinner somewhere in there, and then we went back the member's home to finish painting. That took the rest of the night.
Thursday:
Thanksgiving was great! We started the day by playing football at the high school with some ward members. It was really fun. Then we ran down to the 51st building, and all the zone, including Comano Island came. We had a breakfast and a varity show. It was pretty great! We had a lot of fun talents and skits shown. We also had some roast battles too. After having that much fun, we then went to the Seattle outlets and went and looked at all the shops there. After, we went back home, had a late lunch, and then went to the church to email a little before we went to Thanksgiving dinner. We had it with the Lausens. They had a big meal with turkey, mashed potatoes, everything, and to top it off, they had pie too. It was great. After, we went back home and did some weekly planning. Then we played some card games for the rest of the night.
We did some service at the food bank. Then we exchanged with Sholtes and went back home to have lunch. Then we went into comp study. Oh, Elder Hatch was with us. After, we then went to a lesson with Orion. We talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was okay, and the reason why is because we brought a priest with us, and the fellowshipper was already there. So there were 5 people including us, and we got distracted a lot, and I barely spoke because Elder Milner taught the whole lesson. The family was there too. So lots of people. After, we came home, planned and had dinner, and then we went and saw some people close by before we had personal study. Studies ended the day. We also had some fun on our exchange that night. We had always wondered what was in the attic of the house, so we climbed up there and saw that there was nothing. So we took the bike that someone left in the house and stuck it up there because we didn't have anywhere to put it really. That was really fun.
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| (Note from mom...It's amazing our kids come home in one piece!) |
Saturday
We started the day with seeing some people in the lodge, but no one really opened the door. So we went to our lesson with an investigator that's in the Firetrail Ward. The sisters want us to teach him by request of the mom? Wife? I have no clue. So since he knew Elder Lelo from a year ago, we exchanged with Stillaguamish for the lesson and Elder Lelo and I taught this investigator. He's cool. His name is Jeff, and Elder Lelo taught him when he was in Firetrail. We taught the restoration. After, we then went back to Sholtes and exchanged back. Before we left, we had lunch with them at Magic Dragon. Then we went home, did comp study, and went to the church to do some weekly planning. After, we had dinner, and then went to the Villas to go see some people. Weird story, we went to go see the Ramers, some recent converts in the ward that haven't been to church in a while. While we were there, we found out that Patrick's girlfriend is there with her daughter. We talked with all of them for a little bit and found out that Patrick called the cops on Jolanda, his girlfriend, because she ran away with his kid. Reason why I said "his kid" is because he has custody of the kid. But it is their kid because they had her together. Anyway, after a while of talking, Patrick showed up, took the kid out of Brother Ramer's hands and walked out the door with the child. After much astonishment from all of us, we walked with Jolanda back to her apartment to see where he went, and we found out that he wasn't there. So with nothing to do, we left and drove off to Brother Allen's for our meeting. While on the way there, Patrick called us and apologized for us being a part of that. He told us he was going down south to live with his nephew for a while, so that's a change, which is a change we kind of want because now he can repent and be baptized. Our meeting with Brother Allen took the rest of the night.
Sunday:
We had ward council and church. They both went well. After, we came home and had lunch. Then we went to have our lesson with the Pauls and Sholon. We taught the Pauls about the widow's mite, and how we need to give our all in this church for our Heavenly Father. For Sholon, we talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ by reading 2 Nephi 31 with her. After, we went home and did personal study. Then we went to dinner, and then quickly went back home to get picked up by Brother Allen to go to the Come See for Yourself fireside in Lake Stevens with Sholon. It went really well, and she liked it a lot. After, we came back home and did our accounting with the zone leaders.
Well, that's it for this week. I just want you all to know I am grateful for all of you, my family, my friends, and anyone else that is reading this. I'm grateful for my chance to serve the Lord and to bring others closer to Christ. I love this work because I've seen the atonement work in so many peoples lives, and it changes them. I am grateful for everything I've done and my parents have done to get me out here. I'm grateful for my Savior, Jesus Christ, who is my best friend... and I will try to do everything for Him to be the best He wants me to be for Him and my brothers and sisters on this earth. My challenge to you all this month is to not only be grateful for things you have, but be grateful for the things you can do for others. This next month we are going to light the world with the Love and healing power of Jesus Christ. Please don't waste this great opportunity to be an amazing person in someone's life. I know we all have the ability to do so. So this Christmas, please don't sit on the couch and say, whoa is me. Get up and be a part of the great gathering of light that is going on this next month. I promise you if you do so, the Lord will open your eyes, and you will see and feel the atonement work in your life. I know that to be true. Lastly, I know that this church is true. I know, that Jesus Christ lives, that we are one of his family, whom He was born for, so He could suffer and die for all of us. I hope you can find that understanding in your life, and I leave this with you in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
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