Washoe Valley/Foothill Week 14 (Mission Week 17)

 Hey yall! Sorry for the day late email haha

This week I will hit my 4 month mark!! So crazy. I will be 1/3 of the way through my first year. Time passes so much differently on the mission. It has gone by very fast but slow at the same time. Before I know it I will be at my year mark!

This past week has been good. We have had some good contacts and lessons.

James

We met him on the side of the road a couple months back and just recently started teaching him. He works for a non profit organization in Carson City so we have focused on blessings of service. We read Mosiah Chapter 2 with him and it went very well. Elder McGuire is good at asking questions that got him thinking and involved. The Spirit was definitely present. After we finished reading, we asked him how he felt. He said he felt peace. We let him know that that was the Spirit. We will go back hopefully later this week.

Iliana

This was a spirit lead contact for sure! We didn't really know who this was or when we put in in our schedule so we just went and checked it out. After three knocks, we were walking away but she answered the door. She invited us in and continued to relay to us that she has been having a very rough time and life is going terrible. She is going through a very rough time and doesn't know what to do. We shared Alma 7:12 with her and testified that Christ knows how to succor her feelings and to lean on him because only He knows what she is going through. That helped her. She also asked for a priesthood blessing and we gave her one. She goes to the temple each week and attends South Meadows ward to partake of the sacrament because thats the only thing she knows that will help at the moment. We applauded her for that. It was so cool because we had no idea how she got put in our schedule but she needed a visit badly.

We got to go play disc golf with the youth for mutual on Tuesday night! It was so fun. I had already played the course a couple of times before so I was already used to it and got to show off my skills haha. The deacons were freaking out about how far I can throw. We found a secret tunnel (through the mountains secret secret secret tunnel yeahhh, Avatar reference right there lol) while playing and I decided to through my disc down it because I had glow tape on it. It was very cool. Hopefully the video will upload haha. We walked down it and I threw it nearly on the way down. The youth here has reminded me of the youth back at home which has been a tender mercy for me.

Thanks for all of your prayers and thoughts coming my way. I appreciate them all so much and a prayer of mine doesn't go by without me asking for yall to blessed and protected while I am serving. I love yall so much! Have a great week!!

Elder Proctor