Oi Gente! This week was pretty mellow, but that doesn't mean nothing happened! We started the week off with a Zoom call with the entire east half of the mission and the social media specialists. They wanted to give a few more points on how the new 🎉Mission Wide Facebook Page🎉 will work/what we should do. Holy cow did they talk forever, but it’s alright. There was a Q&A portion at the end and I actually was intending to ask something, but when I began to speak, our connection fell through and the Wi-Fi didn't work for hours. Just my luck, right?!
Of course, what would missionary work be without some service right? This past week gave me the opportunity to serve two awesome families. One of these families lives just a few blocks from us, and we found them through them responding to a Facebook service post/ad thing. They asked for us to literally take out an entire wall on their house, for they planned to have a garage door placed in its stead. With that task in front of us, we utilized the couple of hammers and the one drill that we had and we successfully took down their wall without a single casualty! The other person we served was actually the first councilor in the ward bishopric, whose daughter just turned 8 (we'll get to that momentarily). We trimmed some bushes and took things to the dump, nothing too crazy. Then with the same family, we went to a Baptist church and helped them with a food drive!
For the youth's activity, we were invited to come and talk about what it's like to be a missionary, why we came out on a mission, and what we wish we knew before coming out. It was pretty cool, and let's just say... I came with visuals haha. The boys really enjoyed themselves and when I ran into them throughout the week, they would come up to me and say how really grateful they were for my advice. They're a bunch of beasts. Oh yeah, there is only ONE YOUNG WOMAN in the entire ward! Well, active that is. I am getting to know more of the members and I hope to use that to my advantage in future lessons in fellowshipping other people.
I also was blessed by the Lord with the opportunity to be introduced to a family that had been referred to us! This family was given to us by some missionaries up in Massachusetts that found the mom (Sharroya) and had her come to church with them until she finally moved down here! The family consists of Sharroya (40ish), Ejay (17), Layla (13), Nalya (9), and then two other little girls who are also named Sharroya – lol. We had a weird first encounter with Sharroya, but since then, we've become homies. Our first time seeing her and the fam in person, was at the baptism of Quinn (the girl who just turned 8). They enjoyed it and I had the chance to take the younger girls up to see the baptism up close:) After the baptism, we gave them a church tour and it was quite the party. It wasn't as much of a party as the lesson we had with them AFTER THEY CAME TO CHURCH!!! There were a lot of distractions going on with all of these little kids in the room, but the spirit was still strong and we were able to put Sharroya and Ejay on date for April 17th! Trust me when I say that this family is elect. I will be sure to give it my best and be the missionary they deserve and help them come unto Christ's fold through the gates of baptism! CHOO CHOOOO!
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