Quincy Week 2 (Mission Week 41)

What's up guys!!! I've made it through my second week in Quincy and its been a good one. Im starting to know everyone and getting accustomed to the area so that's nice. The members here are awesome too. It's hard to believe that we're are already halfway through January. One thing is that it has rained all week so the days have been cold and wet. Here's how my week went.

Monday

We just hung out at the apartment and played some card games with the Portola elders. Gotta say it was a pretty lackluster pday haha. In the evening we had a lesson with Maddy and then we went to deliver a birthday cake to one of our friends with Carlos (the ward mission leader)

Tuesday

We had district council in Susanville which is an hour and a half away. The weather was pretty bad so it took us MUCH longer to get there because our plans got changed. District council had to be cut short because we were so late. It was nice to meet the other elders in my district though. We went to Walmart and then headed home. It was snowing A TON on the way back to Quincy. The only other thing we were able to do was have dinner with the Dolezals. 

Wednesday

We went up to do work in the Greenville branch. We did service for a lady named Joy and it was cold and rainy the whole time. We got pretty muddy and had to go to the church to wash off. Afterwards we had a lesson with Brittany and hit a couple of contacts. We ended the day off with driving to Reno because I had a doctor's appointment Thursday morning.

Thursday

I had my doctors appointment and then we drove back to Quincy. We had a lesson fall through and then we did our weekly planning session. I also started a Thursday night basketball here and holy cow it turned out so well. I had thought that I wouldn't be able to do it here but boy was I wrong. One of the youth got a lot of his friends who play basketball for the school to come and we had a couple of people from Facebook to come as well. We played some good ball and they all loved it and will bring more people this next week!! I'm super excited for Thursdays again haha

Friday

We went over to the Dolezals house for service and helped them move some things around. We had an over the phone Bible study lesson with Sydney. We hit a couple of contacts and then had dinner and a lesson with two of our friends, Larry and Bill, and our ward mission leader Carlos. It took up the whole evening but it was quite productive. 

Saturday

We had a busy day Saturday! We were inviting people to our ward game night and we hit a total of 17 contacts and 8 of them answered. I'll take 50% any day haha. Some of them were longer than others and more productive but I'm glad we saw some success. We also had another dinner at our ward mission leaders house with one of our friends Ray. We helped cook and we had a lesson with Ray afterwards. We ended the night with the ward game night which was really fun.

Sunday

4 of our friends came to church!!!! Maddy, Larry, Ray, and another Larry were there. We were pretty happy. Its so nice when people actually follow through with the invites we extend. We also had a ward potluck afterwards and they all stayed and met some people as well! Afterwards we went to the Family History Center and did some more family history with Larry. We also had a lesson with a new person named Brenda! She was a random online referral that wants to be taught!! We had dinner and then hit come more contacts and that ended the day.

Lesson Reviews

Maddy (10 year old)

The lesson went well. We taught the 10 commandments. Maddy is picking up everything and she even shared some of her knowledge with her friends! She wants to come to church and said if her mom doesn't take her then her grandma could.

Brittany and children

We shared a "Jesus" video as her little boy calls it. We talked about how God wants to bless us. We also shared the last part of the talk "What is true?" by President Nelson and talked about how we find out what is true.

Sydney (mom with younger kids)

We read from John 13-16 and discussed what we learned from the chapters. We also invited her to come to church on Sunday and to the game night on Saturday.

Bill and Larry

We had dinner will Bill and Larry and then we got Larry's FamilySearch account started and did alot of family history with him putting it in. We taught why our church is so big into family history which is because of temple work. We talked about temples and explained a basis of what they are and what we do in them.

Ray

We had a good lesson with Ray and he was very involved. We taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ lesson by reading 3 Nephi 27: 13-21. We testified that his life will be better when he lives the Gospel and he said he has felt a difference when he goes to our church because it feels like home. He struggles to keep commitments though because when we invited him to church he was making excuse as to why he might not go but we can overcome that.

Brenda

We walked in without really having a plan and we were just trying to meet her and see what her needs are and she said that she wants to start reading the word of God and to be taught so that was nice. We went over the Plan of Salvation and some basic Restoration stuff. It was a bit all over the place but she loved us being over and she wants us to come back! We invited her to read the title page/introduction of the Book of Mormon and we will talk about it and the Restoration on Wednesday!

Well I guess I have nothing else to say haha. I'm hoping this upcoming week is as good as this last one. I love you guys!!!

Have a great week

Elder Proctor