Winnemucca Week 2 (Mission Week 23)

 Hey guys!

Late email again sorry

This week was pretty fun. Elder Larsen and I are getting along well. The Zone is also really fun and we see each other all the time. We also had some good contacts. Here's the weekly recap

Monday

Just pday and did laundry, shopped, ate lunch at a members house with the other elder, and hung out at the church

Tuesday

We had district council. We helped someone move. We had an irritating contact with someone who pretty much was saying that the prophet needs to apologize to them directly because he encouraged people to get vaccinated. We also had a good lesson with Jaxon and Cade

Wednesday

We helped someone put a trampoline in a hole. We walked for 2 1/2 hours making contact with inactive members and other people who have had contact with missionaries in the past. We read scriptures with some recent converts (Tracy and Stacy)

Thursday

We did alot of walking again and also had our weekly planning session. We also played basketball at the church with some people. 

Friday

We did more walling and had some contacts with less actives and non members. We also helped Brother Hartung hang up sheetrock in his basement. My construction skills are lacking haha

Saturday

We went on exchanges and I went with Elder Troop. We had service in the morning and they fed us breakfast. Their area is really big so we just made our way up north through out the day. By the end of it, it was an hours drive back home from dinner haha. We also got fed every meal of the day so that was cool. We had a good lesson with one of their investigators named Bonnie.

Sunday

We went to church. We also did some more proselyting. Elder Larsen also had two really good moments where he was prompted to knock a door and it turned out well both times!!!

Lesson Review

Jaxon and Cade

They are primary aged so we have to simplify the lessons. We taught them the commandments and it went really well. We made it into a game so it got them into the lesson more than usual. They both like video games so I made a analogy between cheat codes and the Word of Wisdom haha They are both hoping to be baptized on October 8!

Bonnie

She is an older lady that Elder Troop and Webb are teaching. She is GOLDEN. She pretty much accepts everything we tell her. We discussed the Plan of Salvation and it went really well. I love teaching because as you teach you're on testimony grows. The whole time we were talking I was in my head just thinking, "Yeah this is true."

I have a funny story to tell. We were at the Spanish elders apartment and I stuck my finger under the hot water from the water dispenser and we had an idea. We thought that it would be so cool if instead of water you had hot chocolate coming out of the jug and it was instantly hot because the dispenser would heat it up. We all looked at each other and thought it was the greatest idea we had ever heard. So we go to our apartment and see a ton of hot chocolate mix so we put our idea into motion. Later thar night after all work has ceased, we begun the process. I'll keep the story short but our idea became a reality in just a few hours. What started as a simple idea turned into instead gratification of hot chocolate. I will send pictures haha

I love all of you so much and I appreciate all the thoughts and prayers coming my way!!! Have a great week!

Elder Proctor