This week was a little more normal than
past weeks so that was nice.
We had to drop one of our investigators
because he printed us up some anti-Mormon material and just wanted to argue
those points with us. We left on good terms though - he said we could stop by
for water if we needed to so that was nice.
We also had a follow-up exchanges this
week so I had another day with Elder Routabush. We stayed in my area so I got
to take control of the area which is always fun. He is about to end his mission
and he is getting pretty excited about that!
We have been dropping by a lot of our
potentials this week and none of those have lead to anything, so that was a
little disappointing. Now we get to try and find new people – and that will be
fine.
On Wednesday we had District Leader Council
and that was good. We talked about having missionary discussions with people
during dinner so that we keep the discussion related to the gospel and not on
ourselves. One of the things that we do for that is help families make a family
mission plan. We encourage them to pray about someone they think could use the
gospel and we help them figure out ways to share it with them.
Later in the week we had a lesson with
one of our potentials and we are working on bringing the spirit to the lessons
because right now she just wants to know things for informational purposes. We are trying to change that. She is
super nice, and takes care of her 96 year old mother. She is awesome!
On Friday we found out that we will be
tri-panioning (Love these mission words) with another missionary on Monday and Tuesday in between
transfers - so we had to set up our apartment to fit 3 missionaries.
Church was good this week. We got
invited to one of the member’s farewell this week so we went there and gave him
some advice and a ugly tie so that he could have one for the mission field.
We got our transfer calls and I will be
staying here with Elder Aydellote. I'm looking forward to getting to know new
people and working with the same members in this area.
Spiritual Thought:
1 Nephi 19
16 Yea, then will he remember the isles of the sea; yea, and all the people who are of the house of Israel, will I gather in, saith the Lord, according to the words of the prophet Zenos, from the four quarters of the earth.
17 Yea, and all the earth shall see the salvation of the Lord,saith the prophet; every nation, kindred, tongue and people shall be blessed.
I read this in the Book of Mormon while I was studying the
other day and I really liked it because it lets everyone know that no matter
where you live or who you are that everyone will be blessed and that everyone
should be looking for those blessings in their own life.
Love,
Elder Sugden
>>In our email exchanges, Ben sounds like he is doing well, going with the flow and keeping a positive outlook. The members there are really good to the missionaries - feeding them meals and dropping off treats for them. That makes my mom heart happy! He has also requested that we send all of the ties he didn't bring ... he's a little obsessed with having different ties. I guess if that's the only thing you can do to change up your outfit from day to day then it's understandable :)
Treats from nice ward members
...another homemade planner cover
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