Family!
This past week was a
really good one! We started it off right last P-day; a member had us over
to his house for a BBQ, then he took us bowling! Then the work began.
The branch made a huge
push this past week to help the new family that moved in a few weeks ago.
We finally finished digging that massive trench, and along with that the branch
also fixed their roof and a wall that was in pretty bad shape. Hooray for
service!
We went to teach one
of the less active families with the Elders Quorum president this past
week. When we got there, the mom was asleep, the dad had just left, but
the two boys were there (11 and 8). We went in and talked to them for a
bit anyways, and it went pretty well after we had them turn off the Teen Titans
show they were watching. I had forgotten how distracting TV can be to
little kids...
We had a great lesson
with a family that we met a few weeks ago. Ever since then we've been
trying to see them again, but the dad is always working, and we haven't been
able to catch him home. We finally did though, and it went really
well!
Finding a new family
to teach is always awesome!
We were going to bed on
Thursday night when we got a text from the Zone leaders. They told
us that we had to drive over to their chapel to do weekly planning the next
day. That hasn't happened before, so we were wondering what was going
on. When we got there, we found out that they were doing planner
checks! I haven't ever had that happen before, so I had no clue what to
expect. Basically they went through every single day in my planner during
the last month, looked at how effective my planning was, and then offered me
suggestions on how to improve. I thought my planning had been pretty
good, but I guess I've still got some things to learn...
Our district leader
gave us the challenge to try and hand out as many mormon.org cards
as possible during this week. As a way to start it off, we went to a
pizza buffet place, and he had us pick people for him to go talk to and
give cards to. One of the other Elders picked a youth basketball team
that had just walked in. He sat there for a while trying to figure out
how to start the conversation, then he went to go give them some cards.
To break the ice, he purposely tripped right by their table, then he was able
to start talking to them about the gospel from that! I was pretty
impressed.
Yesterday we
celebrated the 3rd anniversary of the Dayton Spanish Branch. The stake
president and his wife came, he gave a short message, and afterwards we had a
little Thanksgiving themed get together thing in the gym. It was the
perfect way to help the members invite their friends to church, and there were
a lot of investigators and less actives there. We actually set a new
sacrament attendance record (at least since I've been here)!
We had some really
great lessons with D----- this past week, and we invited him to be baptized again
last night. He said that "we had him in the
tractor beam" and that he was getting close. We talked a
lot with him about recognizing an answer, and the Spirit was very
strong in that lesson. I'm super excited for him!
That's about it.
Thank you for your letters and the pictures. Take care of each other, and
let me know if there's anything I can pray for, for you
guys. Thanks so much for being so amazing! Have a great week!
Love,
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