Quincy Week 3 (Mission Week 42)

Hey everyone! Another week gone. We are already halfway through this transfer. It will be February next week. Crazy! This week was fun. We had some interesting contacts and a couple of lessons. Here's how the week went!

Monday

We spent most of the day at the Dolezals house playing board games and Sister Dolezal had a lot of food for us while we were there. Later in the day we went to the church and played games with some of the youth.

Tuesday

District council took up a big chunk of our day again. From 8am-4pm is usually taken up by travel and the meeting. After we got back from Susanville we went to the church and did family history with Larry. He is really excited to get his family history done so that is something that we are helping him with while teaching him. We also created a poster for the gym on Thursday nights because our Elders quorum president was worried about things getting out of hand while playing g basketball so we made a poster stated the rules of being in the church while playing. I'll send a picture of it.

Wednesday

We did some walking around Quincy in the morning contacting people and saying hi to everyone on the street. While we were out Bill and Larry rolled up in their truck asking us to help move a washing machine and dryer into the house so we walked over there and did that with them. During the afternoon we went to Greenville and did some work there. I mentioned Brenda Roberts last week who was an online referral and our first lesson went well and she was excited for us to come back for our return appointment which was at 3pm. Well things are not as easy as they seem because when we arrived she was a completely different person and shew us out the door. I'll explain more of what she did in the lesson review later in the email.

After that fiasco we went over the Brittany's and talked with her. We did some more contacting and then headed back down to Quincy for an Elders Quorum meeting.

Thursday

We held our weekly planning session in the morning and then had lunch. After lunch we were going to do more family history with Larry but he wasn't able to so we just street contacted for awhile. We talked with Ray and Roderick at the library for a little bit. We had dinner with the Dolezals and then we went to basketball. 4 new people from Facebook were there!! One of them was 6'9 so that was awesome haha

Friday

We helped out with the Food bank loading stuff off the truck and then separated everything onto shelves. We actually ran into Larry at the food bank so that was great! After the food bank we went over to our friend Carol's house and shoveled the snow off her driveway. She gave us a bag of goodies that said Thanks to the Mormon boys haha. We had a good impromptu lesson with Larry in the afternoon. We then went out contacting people and we met a guy named Chad. He was drunk on his porch and yelled out to us that we could preach to him haha. So that's what we did. He was so drunk and he could barely read but he was communicating with us and we were talking about God. After we left Chad we got a call from some Elders in Colorado who said that 2 people added them on Facebook that wanted to get in contact with the missionaries. We were pretty excited but they both only speak Spanish so we went over to our Ward Mission Leaders house because he is Puerta Rican. Long story short they only wanted to get into contact with the Church because one of them was stranded in Quincy and wanted the church to pay for a plane ticket for him to go to New York. Oh well. Its a funny story though haha.

Saturday

It was a lowkey day. We helped the Dolezals lay flooring in their house for a good chunk of the day. It was pretty fun. After that we went over to Bills house and talked to him and Larry for a bit. We then had dinner and a mission correlation meeting with our Ward mission leader Carlos

Sunday

We finally made it out to the Greenville Branch for church. It was pretty nice. The few members that are there are really welcoming and you could feel the love from them. It was a group about the size of the Hemphill branch back in the Longview Stake. After church we did a lot of contacting and checking in on some people who have had previous contact with missionaries as well as less active members around Greenville. It was really nice driving out there. Its the countryside and we got some nice scenic pics as we were driving. In the evening we had our return appointment with Chad and he was still drunk haha. We ended off the night with talking to the Grandalls (an older couple in our ward).

Lesson Reviews

Brenda

Welp she is no longer interested. Completely different person than who we encountered a couple of days ago. She met us at the door and said she's going to stick with Christianity and gave us back the Book of Mormon and pamphlet that we gave her. We asked why she didn't want us over and she responded "my family" and slammed the door. We think either someone told her some false doctrine or she found it herself but she dropped us pretty harshly.

Brittany

We shared the "Songs Sung and Unsung" to Brittany and her kids and testified that Christ can help us during our bad times and that He is the source of strength when we have none.

Larry

He had a question on what is the highest position we can hold in the church which led us to talk about priesthood to prophets. That lead us in the the Restoration because we needed to talk about why the Priesthood had to be restored. He asked why there are so many churches that lead to the same thing but people say they are wrong so that lead us to talk about how Joseph Smith had the same question and we talked about his story and why the Church believes that we are THE Church of Jesus Christ.

Chad

He was outside his porch and yelled over at us while we were walking by and told us to come inside and preach to him. He was pretty drunk as well haha. He asked about Joseph Smith so we talked about who he was and what he did and gave him a Resto pamphlet. We're not sure how much he will remember because of how drunk he was but he said that we can come back Sunday night. We went back Sunday night and he was still drunk as can be. He asked us what our favorite verses were so we shared them and we talked about Jesus haha. He gave us a book out of the "Chad library" which was just some Bible lessons Book and we gave him one out if our library which was the Book of Mormon. Pretty sure he got the better end of the deal.

Well that's about it from this week. This next week is a eventful one because it's loaded with Zone Conference and 2 exchanges. I won't be in Quincy for most of the week so next email won't have much progress but oh well. I love you guys!!!

Have a great week

Elder Proctor