Week 26

Another week down and two weeks closer to my first baptism because they moved it up a week. It's also the first full week of the new transfer, so talking with all the new people and learning where all the missionaries got moved to.


MONDAY started off with us going to lunch with a member from Elder Stanger's last ward at this hibachi restaurant. It was my first time at one and it was pretty cool, but the food could definitely be better. After that, we headed to P-day and got to know a lot of the new people in the zone. Surprisingly, with all the changes to the zone, there was little basketball, and it was mostly board games instead. Later that day, some members actually took us to Top Golf for dinner and let us play a bit because they had a premium membership. Pretty crazily, while Elder Stanger was using one of the premium 5 irons they brought out for us, the head broke off and went into the green target. It was really surprising, but they told us that it happens every once in a while and that we were fine.


TUESDAY we got a little bit of rain for the first time in a bit, so I was pretty happy for the moisture. The rest of the day was just a bunch of tracting in the cod that was pretty uneventful.


WEDNESDAY we had a really cool emotional resilience devotional with a member in our mission. Those devotionals are always such a great way to start a transfer. After that, we had a bunch of tracting that didn't go too well, but you have to have days like that, I guess.


THURSDAY we had exchanges and it went really well. We were able to talk with a bunch of people, give a blessing, and even get a return appointment with some guys selling solar.


FRIDAY we had the district council of the transfer, so it was pretty fun getting to know everyone and learn how long they'd been on the mission.


SATURDAY we had a lot of our lessons fall through, but we were also able to have a really great lesson with someone where I got to use a lot of my studies from the Old Testament to answer their questions. We also got to have dinner at Canes and it was completely packed so we just got our food and ate in the car.


SUNDAY we had some really good talks at church about the Book of Mormon and the blessings it brings into our lives.


It was a pretty good week, just nothing too exciting. This week's thought is from Alma 39:2 which says, "And now, my son, I trust that I shall have great joy in you because of your steadiness and your faithfulness unto God; for as you have commenced in your youth to look to the Lord your God, even so I hope that you will continue in keeping his commandments; for blessed is he that endureth to the end." I really like how Alma focused on the fact that because his son was being faithful, if he continued to be faithful, he'd be blessed. It's a simple message, but I like it.


1- Canes
2- Traffic
3- Birds
4- Golf



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