This week blew by faster than you could say the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. Speaking of the preamble, boy am I sooo happy to be a citizen in God's country – #PresOaks2024.
I finally tried doing some dry calls this week and it was actually super productive and we even found 3 new souls to teach! What we do is we pull up a google doc that has the phone numbers of people in our area, and then we just call away. If a number doesn't work, we write that it's invalid, and if it does work, we say it does work and we call back and so on. When somebody does pickup however, that's where the real fun begins! I usually say something like, “Hi, I'm a missionary here in the local area going around sharing a quick 30second message of Christ. Would it be alright if I shared a scripture with you?” A lot of people either yell at me for invading their privacy, or they might be interested. Either way, it's a blast!
This week has been pretty rough for Sean. For some reason the devil had truly taken control of his mind and made him believe he can't do anything. The saddest part is that he isn't really doing what is needed to take control again. It's like he wants to just be the victim in things... but on a brighter note, Sophia is still going strong! As well as Sharroya and Ejay! Sharroya has been super busy, but she still has the desire!
We have been working to clean up our area book also – to find out if the people in it have any real interest in the church or not. We ended up dropping Nick because he just doesn't want anything to do with Christ's restored church. It's all Gucci though. We tried to do some fun finding as well. We pulled up to a park and started to play some Kubb (a game where you throw some sticks at blocks, kind of weird, but yeah...). It is a very interesting game and we did it in hopes of starting a conversation with strangers and maybe have them join the game. It didn't really work out, but it was a blast!
We went over to brother House's place again this past week and continued our work on his greenhouse. It is starting to come together and it looks pretty dope! I got to move cinder blocks, put up some planters, and transfer a whole pallet of 60lb cement bags! Super fun stuff, I know. I keep getting compliments from brother House about how I should be a professional greenhouse builder after the mission. Yeah, suuuuure. He's a really great guy and we are mostly there to be good examples to his grandson who isn't a member yet, cause his parents want him to wait until he’s like 14 to be baptized. So I won’t be dunkin him anytime soon haha.
Elder Farley has been preparing to go to Japan even though he has no faith in him going, but I am doing my part and making sure that he DOES HIS LANGUAGE STUDIES. I have been improving on my studies of the Japanese language and even have all Hiragana (main kana, dakuten kana, and combination kana). I still don't know how to speak at all or translate but at least I know how to sound out words! My comp is so good at it though! He hasn't even been to Japan and he could probably be fluent after a week of being there. He’s a baller and is just too afraid to own up to it.
Frisbee golf has been super fun and I’m going to become a pro at it so I can show y’all the ropes when I get home, but yeah... I’ll catch ya next week!!
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