This week was kinda crazy, so much stuff happened! It feels like it's been ages since transfers, yet they were only on Wednesday! We stayed together, so it felt like any other week for us.
We had some super good authentic tacos with a member on Monday, and had sort of a sketchy contact that night. Something just felt off about the situation. The apartment looked suspicious, the people were acting weird, and it just had an overall weird vibe. They set an appointment, but we didn't feel good about going back, so we didn't.
On Tuesday, we had tacos again! We also were able to finalize a full list of the less actives, and our area book now has many more notes and tasks relating to them. The tacos were with another member, and they wanted to give the spiritual thought at dinner! I thought that was pretty neat, they did a good job too! We also gave them a map of our area and asked them where they thought we should tract. They seemed thrilled by that!
Wednesday was a great 4th of July! Also the last 4th of July of my mission, that's super weird to think about. It was super hot and humid, but we made some good contacts, and enjoyed the ward breakfast and dinner with the Bagleys who had a good southern cook out. Overall, the day turned my thoughts to home a bit, but don't worry. I didn't get too trunky. I haven't been out long enough for that.
Thursday was amazing! We got Sydney on date for baptism after meeting with missionaries for 2 years! It was very exciting. We also had a great visit with a less active, and an Returned Missionary who got home on Monday!
Friday was also good, we had another good lesson with Linda on the plan of salvation and she really enjoyed it! She is definitely warming up to the idea of coming to church and taking things more seriously. We also had dinner with some members who created a great family mission plan! We were so excited about what they chose to commit to, and we will be working with them more.
We had district leader training on Saturday, and talked to a surprising amount of Hispanics while tracting the street the Miller's gave us. My Spanish is super broken, but must have been good enough to generate some interest, because we sent off a couple referrals to the Spanish elders! I also came up with the great idea of marking houses for sale in the area book so that missionaries can talk to the new people who move in!
Sunday was absolutely crazy! We had a lot of people to talk to at church, had to go straight to lunch with a member after, and then meet up with another member for some visits shortly after that. Then, as we were planning our other activities after dinner, we went out with another member to give someone the sacrament! We were running around like a chicken with its head cut off!
Driving around in the cornfields out in Stuart's draft today gave me crazy Deja vu and nostalgia for my first area! I should have taken some pics, but it would probably look the same as the many others I have already taken on my mission.
Anyway, talk to y'all next week!
Elder Brown
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| Frontier culture museum (an older picture) |
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| Interesting doorbell at one of the houses we tracted! |
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| Little man statue we found when tracting! |
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| Exchanges |
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| Transfers |
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