Winnemucca Week 7 (Mission Week 28)

 Hey everyone! Another transfer down. I am on my 5th transfer now. Crazy! I'm still doing good here in Winnemucca. I said farewell to Elder Larsen and now I am training Elder Burton. We are doing very well. He is motivating me to be a better missionary and we have seen more success in our work this first couple of days because we are following the missionary schedule better. There are blessings in obey the mission standards! 

Here's my weekly recap!

Monday

We did regularly pday things. There's a disc golf course here that is not good at all so it made me miss disc golf at home because of how bad it is here haha. I also decorated our apartment for Halloween!!

Tuesday

In the morning we all just hung out while we awaited for transfers and getting the last things ready. I drove to Reno in the afternoon and stayed the night there with the Reno Zone leaders and two other missionaries who drove me down here because I was picking up Elder Burton. 

Wednesday

We woke up at went to a church building for training meetings. We met our trainees. We had a big lunch and then I saw alot of my missionary friends at transfers and introduced them to Elder Burton. We drove back to Winnemucca and immediately went to dinner. After the dinner we read 1 Nephi 3 and 4 with Stacy and Tracy and talked about what we learned.

Thursday

We finished helping the Southwicks build a fence. They fed us lunch and we chatted for a bit. We had a weekly planning session where we plan the upcoming week. We also had a missionary correlation meeting with Brother Westmoreland. We got to play basketball in the evening. Elder Burton plays basketball too so I'm really happy with that!!

Friday (MY BIRTHDAY!!!)

It was my birthday on Friday. I'm 20 years old now. I don't like it.. I just want to be a youth forever haha. It was a good day though. We helped paint a house with the Spanish elders. I accidentally knocked paint all over the deck which wasn't the best. I guess that's what happens when you let amateur missionaries paint haha. We had a good contact with Mario who we had never met before. We introduced Elder Burton to Bishop Hobson and his wife fed us cake when she found out it was my birthday! We had dinner right after and they prepared a birthday cake as well!! It was a good birthday for it being on the mission

Saturday

We did some street contacting and trying to get ahold of less active members. We were able to find a lady named Voni. We also had the most frustrating lesson with a couple named the Gays. We had the adult session of Stake Conference in the evening which was awesome. Elder Clark G Gilbert was attending and spoke. He spoke at the 2021 General Conference and gave a very good talk. I invite you guys to listen to it. He is a very good speaker.

Sunday

We had Stake Conference and listened to Elder Gilbert speak again which was just as good as Saturday. Nothing too crazy in the afternoon but I had the best lesson of the mission so far with Jim Loveless.

Lesson Reviews

Jim Loveless

Very powerful lesson. We were able to get Jim to feel the Spirit. We testified of the Saviors Atonement and shared Alma 7:11-13 to help him know that the Savior has felt his pains. We taught the Plan of Salvation and asked him what he believed in and then testified of what we know to be true. We shared Alma 7:17 and testified that the Spirit was in the room and was testifying truth to him. He doesn't understand why the Bible says that no other book should be written but we have the Book of Mormon. He also doesn't believe in Joseph Smith but he wants to understand. We were very honest with him and he said that no missionary had ever opened up to him and was able to do what I did and he appreciated it and he's open to understanding. We invited to pray to know if the things which we had said were true and we are going to go back on Friday night. He also is coming to Church next Sunday. I felt like Ammon teaching Kong Lamoni and my trainee was astonished at how well I taught. I told him to not get used to it because I had never taught like that before haha. 

Voni

She is a 7th Day Adventist and we got into a good conversation as we were helping her son sweep the driveway. We talked about the Plan of Salvation and told each other what our beliefs are. It's funny because she is trying to convert as while we are trying to do the same haha. We are strong though. We won't yield to the temptation  We are going to help them clean up there yard a discuss more

Gays

Oh my gosh. This had to be the most frustrating thing I've ever done. They are extremely anti vaccine/covid. It is the only thing that they can talk about. I had a frustrating contact before with them but because Elder Burton and I are a little more bold and it was so contentious for no reason. They are adament that President Nelson(the literal Prophet on Earth) needs to apologize to them directly for encouraging people to get the vaccine because he knew better. They have such hard hearts for that and it pains me to see it. They were progressing before covid but now are so against President Nelson and there is nothing we can do at the moment. We left and had to say a prayer because of how frustrated we were haha

Well I'm hoping this week is just a successful as last week. It's holiday season so the time is gonna go even faster. Its started to get colder so I'm about to be pulling out the sweaters I'm looking forward to telling you guys what progress we make in the next week. I love you guys!!!

Elder Proctor

Pic 1: HALLOWEEN!!! 

Pic 2: A signed Kobe Bryant ball at Scheels

Pic 3: Elders stay in the basement of this place