Hey all! We got together with a lot of the surrounding missionaries and played some games at Womble Park. Elder Hill brought some gloves and I played catch with him for the first time in like 2 years. I was surprised to learn that my knuckle ball has become exceedingly nasty to where it moves like somebody under the influence without spinning at all. I guess it just needed a little rest lol.
We were tasked with the special assignment this week to get anybody and everybody to watch the message from President Nelson. I took that to heart and doubled my efforts in speaking to anybody who would listen to my voice. I started going off and even made some pass along cards for the event. I caught the attention of my neighbor and started to talk with her. Her name is Lisa and she is a beast. Before I knew her name, she was known as "smoker lady" hahaha. But anyways, she starts saying that she would be interested in watching the message and then began to ask all of the weird questions about our church (multiple wives, if coke is banned, etc). Then she tells us that she was the 8th grade sex ed teacher for none other than DUSTIN JOHNSON as well as a few other athletes that play in college sports. We sadly haven't seen her yet, but I know that we're gonna have a lit conversation when we do! Another cool contact that I had was when I called an atheist that I found named Amin. He doesn't really care to learn much about God, but he seemed really excited to talk with us and asked us to send him the link about President Nelson's message and the church website! I wish that every contact was as spiritually uplifting as that was.
When the message came on Facebook, I was sooooo pumped. After watching, I felt weird because I was underwhelmed, yet my mind was still blown if that makes sense. I guess I was expecting things for the second coming, but then I was blown away because he was like, "It's not like I'm a doctor... oh wait, yes I am, and y'all need gratitude!" or when he was like," Don't be bummed about losing loved ones, because I have lost plenty, yet I move on in life". It was awesome and our whole zone had a zoom chat where we talked about what we liked and felt about the message.
This weekend, our stake had the first stake conference in over a year and the Maurers pulled up without any of us missionaries knowing on Saturday. Luckily, I didn't have anything I was scared of them seeing, or so I thought... They both spoke and Sister Maurer gave a talk that I think the whole family needs to listen to about if others know that we are Christian. After the meeting, they came up and Sister Maurer CLAPS me with a roast about how ugly my hair is. It's alright though. They are a hoot and I love them. Then on Sunday, President Runyan came up and spoke passionately about how the parents need to prepare their children to serve missions and build the Lord's kingdom here on earth. He also gave a shout out to the missionaries saying that we are the best ones he has ever had in this stake, then when I gave a little fist pump to him, he said "I see even one of the missionaries present is giving me a fist pump of excitement" lololo. He called for everybody to be better about making their home a Christ centered home. I felt the spirit so much as he spoke and I was so glad to know that my family has been good about helping me be able to choose to follow the teachings of the church because I wanted to instead of forcing it upon me/them giving me my testimony instead of me getting it for myself.
The APs cracked down on us (the entire mission) the other day about us not wearing masks AT ALL TIMES, leaders and companionships alike. So yeah.... I'll try to be better this next week lol. That's all folks, I'll see ya next week. Falouuuuu
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