Winnemucca Week 9 (Mission Week 30)

 Happy Halloween everyone  I hope yalls week was good. I know mine was. We found a couple of people and had some successful days tracting. I'll go straight into the weekly recap!

Monday

Regular p day things. Nothing much to report

Tuesday

Our service for the day didn't take very long so we went to a less active member home home asked if she wanted so help for an hour and she said yes! We also did a lot of contacting this day and walking around trying to find people. We found someone very promising named Rachel.

Wednesday

I was on an exchange with Elder Webb. We helped paint a deck, did some walking, and probably had the most interesting contact of my mission so far. The guy had a business card for all of his socials where he makes Cats the Musical edits. He also disagrees with many of the church's beliefs (he's a non active member). I was struggling not to crack up while we were talking to him because of how confused I was at what was happening haha

Thursday

We drove to Elko for Zone Conference!! It was fun. It was focused on prayers. I can testify that having meaningful prayers as well as calling upon the Lord for everything will increase your relationship with Him. We listened to some podcasts/devotionals on the way over there that were really good. If any of yall have a favorite church devotional/podcast please send it over. We also played basketball when we got back to Winnemucca.

Friday

We did ALOT of walking and finding. We made some invitations for our Trunk or Treat and handed them out to people. We had a couple of potential finds that we had a good meaningful conversation with but didn't get a return appointment. It was pretty fun making the invitations and passing then out to people while walking.

Saturday

We had some more good contacts but also had a bad one. I had my first bash of the mission. Yay haha. She pretty much told us that we were the spawn of Satan no biggie. We had the Trunk or Treat that night which was very fun. We invited Jordan (less active member who is struggling big time) and he came and even brought his 1 year old son. Please pray for Jordan. He really needs it. I also passed out hot chocolate from our trunk so it was fun interacting with all the ward. We also had interviews with President Dunn. 

Sunday

It was the primary program and church and we had a potluck. So fun! My favorite part was when one of the kids were listing the 10 commandments and why we obey them and got to the "Thou shalt not kill" and straight up just said "that is murder" and moved on  We were also able to coordinate getting Jordan some dinner which brought a lot of joy. 

Lesson Reviews

Rachel (new find!)

We knocked on her door and she said that she would be interested in our message. She said she doesn't know who created the world but believes in something. We taught some of the Plan of Salvation and testified that Jesus Christ created the world under Heavenly Father's direction. We testified of the Atonement and how we were sent here knowing we would make mistakes and we can use the Savior to overcome that. She stated that she wants to get her daughter baptized (she's 4) and she is looking for somewhere to go. We said that we have different lessons we can talk about and she said she has questions about them all. We talk a little about the Restoration. We also talked about how Christ is our main focal point of our beliefs. We gave her a Plan of Salvation pamphlet and we will go back and answer any questions.

We actually had alot of really good first contacts/messages with people but didn't get return appointments so we cant consider them a find. It's always good to plant the seeds though and bear testimony so that whenever they think of missionaries they have a good experience to look back on. This upcoming week should be fun. We've got a couple of first lessons with some newfound people so I'm looking forward for that. Please keep praying for me as I'm out here serving. Thank you so much. I love yall so much!!!

Have a great week

Elder Proctor

Pic 1: Sister Kenisons AMAZING Thai food

Pic 2: Winnemucca Zone at Zone Conference 

Pics 3/4: The Business Card haha (Yall should look up the videos and tell me how they are)

Pics 5-7: My homemade invitations lol