Quincy Week 4 (Mission Week 43)

 Hey yall!!!

Here I am again with another week gone by. Time is flying. This week was pretty fun. Not alot of lessons or work done in Quincy because of how much we were gone but it was fun nonetheless. One thing to be said is that it is COLDDDD. I'm wearing 6 layers and I'm still cold. I've got undergarments, white shirt, sweater, jacket, and then a 2in1 bigger jacket on top! Don't worry though I'm getting a couple of things to keep my head warm because that's the reason I'm cold. On Friday I was in Chester, CA and there was the most amount of snow I had ever seen in my life there. I'm talking about 10+ feet. It was crazy. I'll send some pics. Anyways here's how my week went.

Monday

I have finally found a disc golf course that I like to play!!! Brother Dolezal is actually the one who designed the course here and we played it. I thoroughly enjoyed myself haha I'm definitely looking forward to being here when it warms up a little bit and we can go each week. It's still a bit cold and snow on the ground but it was still very fun. We also had a lesson with Maddy in the evening that went well!

Tuesday

We started the day with walking and street contacting. We stopped by a couple of people that lived on the street we walked down. We said hi to Larry and talked with him for a few minutes. We took some time to clean out the fridge and it looks soooo much better now. I'm very happy that it is organized now. I have been wanting to do it but we have been busy. In the afternoon we went and walked East Quincy and tried to contact some people for our Elders quorum president. We are helping him and the elders quorum presidency with the ministering lists and finding out what people have moved and whatnot. We had dinner with the Dolezals and then took out the trash for one of our members who couldn't lift the bags. We went over to Brother Smailes house (Elders quorum president) and chatted with him and his wife and gave a report on the people we tried to contact. They gave us a lot of leftover turkey dinner as well!! We don't get fed as much here as I have in my other areas so I'm happy to have that haha.

Wednesday

We had Zone Conference in Reno which was fun. We did a big Kahoot game (online trivia game that you can created and have people join off their phones) and I won the game!! I got 1st out of 45 missionaries haha. What's funny is that the question that put me on top was "Who is serving in Lund, Nevada" which is the most remote part of the mission. One of my trainees is in Lund right now so I knew automatically and was shouting "THATS MY STEPSON LETS GOO!!" (Mission terminology haha). I received no prize but it satisfied my competition nature at least haha. I had an interview with President Dunn and the we started exchanges with the Zone leaders. I was with Elder Halliday and we did some work in their area. We had a lesson and found 2 people!

Thursday

We were still on exchanges until Thursday afternoon. We spent the day contacting a bunch of people and finding. We saw a door that had a sign that said "Please ring doorbell", so we did haha. Now the point of that being there is to get us to not knock the door but when the lady answered the door we said "You had a sign that said please ring your doorbell so we did!! We figured you would be interested in a message about Jesus Christ!" She did not appreciate our humor and told us to go away. I loved the exchange. We ended exchanges and then headed back to Quincy just in time for basketball. We had 14 people there!!! Almost all of them were from Facebook too. We started with a prayer and a spiritual message too. I'm so glad that I was able to get a basketball night started here. Everyone is keeping their behavior in check and we haven't ran into any problems and hope to not have any at all.

Friday

We helped Brother Dolezal clean and organize his discs for dic golf which I absolutely loved. We then started exchanges with our district leader. I went with DL Elder Call in Susanville while Elder Haufe stayed here. We spent the day contacting people and we had a lesson with a guy named Michael. He was a cool dude but he pretty much said that God takes away our agency at times when we don't know why we did something. For example if you walk into a room and forgot why you went in there boom agency revoked. Also he was caught on the idea that Judas Iscariot shouldn't go to hell because someone HAD to betray Jesus so he really did a good thing and had his agency taken away. It wasn't in a bashful way though so hopefully we can get him to realize that God uses bad choices sometimes to further His work.

Saturday

Still on exchanges with Elder Call. We did some contacting and I had a highlight of my mission. We walked up to this door and were looking for a girl but a guy met us at the door saying that he is her husband now and they are Christian and she isn't interested anymore. The contact was left on a semi bad note and he did not want us there so we turn around to leave and right to the side of me is a DEER. I was so confused and startled and I just went WHAT THE HECK!! I turned around and asked the dude " Is that your pet deer??" He simply said no and that it is a friendly neighborhood deer. The bad mood was completely killed because I was so ecstatic about a deer being so close to me haha. The deer even tried to go inside the guys house. I whipped out my phone and started taking pictures. It's funny how the guy wanted us to go away and we ended up staying on his front lawn while he was inside taking pictures with a deer haha. We ended exchanges and then headed back to Quincy. We did a lot more contacting a d then had dinner and a correlation meeting with out ward mission leader.

Sunday

We were originally going to go to Greenville to speak but President Thrall called us about 2 hours before and told us that it had snowed A TON and he was going to cancel church so we were free to not speak and attend Quincy ward.  After church we just walked ALOT and contacted a bunch of inactive members/people who have had contact with missionaries before. It was VERY cold. We even had to stop by a members house and ask to warm up inside because we were freezing.

Lesson Reviews

Maddy

We taught Maddy about the rest of the ten commandments: don't lie, don't covet, and commit adultery. We also talked about family and temples and the importance of talking to God through prayer and fasting. She is progressing well and gets her grandma to take her to church when her mom doesn't want to. Hopefully we will have a baptismal date set for her soon!

That's all the lessons for this week. Like I said we barely were in Quincy this week. 

Well that's about it for this week. I love you all so much and thanks for the prayers!! Feel free to send me any questions you have or even just a simple email saying hi!

Have a great week

Elder Proctor

PS I have a bunch of pictures this week