Week 18

This was a really great week with a lot of lessons and some very fun activities. We found a lot of new people to teach who seem fairly interested, so I really hope that the Holy Ghost is about to touch their hearts.


MONDAY wasn't just an average P-day of basketball and board games but started off with my district going to Top Golf and having some fun. It was pretty great, with us playing an Angry Birds mode, which we all had a lot of fun with. After that experience, I can definitely say that I'm not that good at golf, but it is pretty fun.


TUESDAY was a bit more disappointing in the morning because a chapel tour we had set up with one of our friends fell through when they never showed up. It was kinda sad, but life gets busy, so we understand. But we got back on track and ended up finding a couple of people that said we could stop by another time and share a message, which is pretty exciting.


WEDNESDAY started off with us waking up and getting ready early so that we could go help one of the members in our ward move stuff out of their house. It was a lot of furniture that needed to be moved into a trailer, so we got a good workout for the day. After that, most of our day was just finding people to teach by walking around and knocking on a lot of doors. We ended off our night by going and helping out the older youth with an activity on missionary work.


THURSDAY I went on exchanges with my district leader, which went really well. We were able to go and share a message on faith with someone we had met the day before, which went well enough that they're letting us come back next week. Afterwards, we went finding with the older youth and were able to meet more people who want to hear a message another time.


FRIDAY we had zone counsel and set out goals for the coming month. It was pretty great to be able to use the time to say goodbye to a lot of people because transfers are coming up next week, and that might be the last time I get to see a lot of them.


SATURDAY we had our ward Christmas party in the morning, which was a great time seeing all the members of the ward and their songs and acts. Afterwards, we had a lesson with one of our friends who was interested in the church.


SUNDAY we got to hear a lot of people go and bear their testimonies during sacrament, which was great. Overall, it was a great week with a lot of lessons I didn't feel like writing about, but it's still really fulfilling to be able to see so many people progressing. My thought for the week is on the nativity. It's very easy to forget about the importance of our Savior in the Christmas hustle, but it's always a good thing to remember the sacrifice that our Savior made for us by coming to this earth.


Top Golf
Tracting with the youth
Santa
Prickly pear jelly
Christmas party ticket




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