We were supposed to do some service for some members on Pday by laying down some pavers in their back yard, but when we pulled up, we were stopped by their non-member friend that was going to help us. The friend told us that we’ll have to do it another day, then pointed out the ginormous gash in her head that she got from falling down their stairs and tagging it on the corner of her house. She got to the hospital safely and got some stitches and we were able to get that service done later in the week.
Our teaching pool is a little up and down at the moment. Jarrell was supposed to watch church tomorrow over Zoom, but was a no show. We had an amazing lesson with Tracie during the week and even got her on date to be baptized May 22nd! She has so much going on in her life at the moment that she hadn't really been able to talk with us throughout the week and she didn’t go to church. She knows how important baptism is and even asked us to start teaching her son and help him to be baptized as well! We thought, "Yeah, we’ll help your son when you actually talk with us more often" haha.
We had a zone social media conference again over Zoom and yet again... it all could've just been sent to us in an email, instead of taking 90min of our time haha. It's alright, because later that night, we had ANOTHER mission Zoom conference, but this time with the Maurers and their special guest. The special guest was a blind guy that they were friends with back in Australia and he shared life stories with us. He is outstanding on the guitar, a motivational speaker, and an avid cyclist! He was actually the first person to ride a tandem bicycle from coast to coast in Australia. It was dope to hear his testimony and the efforts he has put in to keep his faith strong.
I finished my first of 6 parts of the 'my plan' program and it was a big “bruh moment”. It was basically an overview of what I will be doing in the program and it had me write down three things I've learned in the mission and three attributes of Christ that I've been better at applying because of the mission.
Speaking of applying something better, I really put in a lot more effort into adding people in my teaching area and sending messages when they add me back. I was doing so good in fact, that I got sent to "Facebook Jail" for two days. When you get sent there, you can’t add or message anybody for the allotted amount of time they give you. It's alright, because I was able to find 5 new souls through that in this past week!
To end things off I wanted to talk about the amazing opportunity I had to meet with my Great Aunt Lois, her husband Johnny, and my 2nd cousin Adam! They are 100% southerners alright and they were just as excited to meet me as I was to meet them. We talked and talked and talked. I showed them pictures of the family back home and we talked a little bit of what I do as a missionary. Lois is my great grandma, Gigi’s, little sister. While Lois was pointing out all of their property, I took the opportunity to talk to her. I was talking about how much of a pleasure it was to finally meet her and how I hoped we could all get in contact with the Friedel family again. She actually made mention of her wanting to get all the ladies together at least one more time. I also got her hyped about family history and she said that she acquired the guest book that everyone signed from her dad's funeral! I thought that would be a fantastic thing to start out with. Anyways, that's my awesome week! Be sure to let me know if you need/want anything – t-minus 8 weeks people until I get home!
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