Hey y'all! This week was pretty great! Here is what happened.
Tuesday last week. We hung out on our hammocks after we had cleaned, emailed, and gotten groceries. That was nice. Then that evening We went and tried some potentials and talked to Timmy. He is an investigator that had been taught a lot in the past and we just are trying to lovingly see if he has any hold backs to Baptism.
Wednesday: We went out and just did some normal tracting and street contacting as well as online stuff. It was pretty average. That night we had our group coordination at Shoney's which is a pretty good southern buffet. Brother Philips the group leader takes us there on wednesdays. Usually we go and visit people after but this week he was busy so we went and visited people close by. We found out early on that it is rough to bike after eating a lot so Elder Flammer and I would eat a lot less than we could so it wouldn't be painful. Elder King didn't follow suit. haha. He regretted it later.
Thursday: we went and saw a bunch of different potentials. We are in the process of cleaning off our board of all the people who aren't progressing so that we can fill it with people that are. That night we had dinner with a Recent Convert named Cheryl. She is really nice! She has a lot of land and animals and stuff and she built her whole house herself. It is nice too. She cooked us some really good food as usual and we finished the new member lessons with her and the Chadwicks. They are a senior missionary couple. They are cool and they also had 7 kids. So y'all aren't out of luck! It is a possibility.
Friday: We had weekly planning. That is always super slow and takes forever! I don't like it that much. It is hard to focus on it because it takes so long to do. We took some breaks to go visit some people though so that was good. Later we got to do some service for a member. That was also a nice break from being inside. Then President Grayson called and Let us know Elder Flammer was getting ET'd. So that put a change in our plans.
Saturday: we had most of the day to go see people and proselyte. Then we came back and let Elder Flammer pack his stuff since the next day we would have church most of the time before he got picked up.
Sunday: we had a really good Fast Sunday and I bore a brief testimony of the sacrament. We teach the gospel principles class since it is a small group. It was funny because since the group is so small and meets in a conference center because it doesn't have a building( yet! one is being built) the Priesthood already all met together. So that wasn't any different. Then after Church we had some companion study and President Grayson came and got Elder Flammer and left. The rest of the day actually went really well. I was worried because Elder King was kinda hard to get along with in a trio. But I worked hard to apply what Elder Bednar talked about in conference about beeing meek and how it wasn't weakness but actually strength. I was shocked by how much happier and less stressed I felt. He is a good missionary too. I think that since I was such good friends with Elder Flammer and Elder King was so different than Elder Flammer and I was only seeing the bad at first. But when I focused on the good and tried my hardest to help him to feel loved then I felt so much better. That evening we got two new investigators. One named Otis and another named Carla. Otis is a great guy he has a little son and we were able to share that video about fathers and stuff with him. ( the video reminds me of you every time dad :)) He is really interested and I could tell he felt the spirit. Then we had a facebook lesson with a girl named Davita. That went pretty well. I am getting used to Facebook lessons but I think I liked it enough. Overall it was a really good day. It was all because of my attitude towards it too.
Monday: We had a phenomenal district meeting! The AP's are in our district ( They are the Assistants to the president which means they are like the best example of missionary work and they are constantly doing stuff for him and going on exchanges with the Zone leaders. ) so that is very nerve racking but also really neat. They are normal people and I am the only District leader that gets to go on exchanges with them. I enjoy getting to learn stuff from them. After district meeting we had a missionary " funeral" for sister Christensen because she was going home this transfer because her mission is over. I realized then that missionaries do some weird things. It was cool though.
Today: it is P-day and we got groceries and I have a lot of money saved this week since transfers are coming up and I might have to buy a lot of food If I get transferred to a new area. Later I plan on hammocking and Elder King wants to send a package so we will be doing that.
I love y'all so much ! I am sorry I don't always have time to write my emails like this but I will try to do them more often. I love you! Love Elder Blair.
Here are some pictures.
I don't know the order but I used a lighter and a knife and did a chocolate bunny head transplant on the chocolate bunny. haha
Then there are a couple different pictures of the funeral and a cool hood ornament I saw. The clouds one day looked like a mountain line and I missed Utah for like a millisecond. Then the Plan of Salvation made into the word Love! That was cool. And some other stuff but it was good
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