Well another transfer has gone. This upcoming transfer is the last one of my first year as a missionary. Crazy. Transfer news is that I am staying in Quincy!! Elder Haufe is leaving and I will be getting a new companion. The coolest part about it is that on transfer day I will be going to Washoe Valley for the afternoon and going with Elder Beyler because my companion won't be in Reno until Wednesday evening. I'm so excited to spend a couple of hours in my baby area and say hi to some people there. Here's how my week went.
Monday
Elder Haufe and I just stayed in Quincy for Pday. We did all our housekeeping things and we also went disc golfing with Brother Dolezals son, Andrew, and his friend Blake. I'm so glad I'm in a place with a good disc golf course. When I get transferred I'll go back to either a terrible course in the dirt of Nevada or no course at all. I'll be grateful while I'm here haha. We should have had a lesson with Maddy but her mom canceled again.
Tuesday
We went up to Susanville for district council. I did a training on working with the youth and why it's important. After that we started exchanges. Elder Van Der Watt came back to Quincy with me. On the way back we stopped in Greenville and did some work there. We actually found someone (Kristina) which was awesome. We were walking and she shouted out to us if we had a Bible that we could give her and we said OF COURSE!! We gave her a Bible and we actually helped her start her generator. After we thought we had gotten it started we said a prayer for it to continue to stay on and kid you not immediately when I said amen the generator stopped working 
. Kristina immediately looked up and said well thanks God 
. I was trying not to laugh at how ironic the situation was so we went back and tried again and we eventually got it started and it didn't turn off. Maybe God was making a point as to why I need to follow promptings because I wanted to say one before the 1st time but didn't so maybe the prayer after was for the 2nd time we got it started haha. Either way it's a funny story. We then had a good contact with Brittany and then went back to Quincy. We talked with the Schilingars again and they are doing fine and they said we can bring over a couple of church members to introduce. That's a good sign. To end of the night we had a GREAT lesson with Larry and Bill.
. Kristina immediately looked up and said well thanks God . I was trying not to laugh at how ironic the situation was so we went back and tried again and we eventually got it started and it didn't turn off. Maybe God was making a point as to why I need to follow promptings because I wanted to say one before the 1st time but didn't so maybe the prayer after was for the 2nd time we got it started haha. Either way it's a funny story. We then had a good contact with Brittany and then went back to Quincy. We talked with the Schilingars again and they are doing fine and they said we can bring over a couple of church members to introduce. That's a good sign. To end of the night we had a GREAT lesson with Larry and Bill.Wednesday
We helped Larry and Bill move a refrigerator from one house to another. We then did some contacting and then did an exchange review and drove back up to Greenville to swap companions again. As we driving back to Quincy we realized we didn't give the Susanville elders their SIM card back that Elder Haufe had in his phone. This would leave their companionship with no internet and no way to get in contact with anyone. The second we realized we turned around and tried to catch up to Elder Call and Van Der Watt. Our plans got crashed because of this haha. We were originally going to drive all they way to Susanvillle but thankfully Elder Call called us at a grocery store in Chester that had free wifi and told us to meet them there. All in all this ordeal took about 2 and a half hours when it should've only been 1 haha. One we made it back to Quincy we walked to the library and met with Ray. We had an Elders Quorum meeting that evening as well.
Thursday
We had a guy come fix our heater because it stopped working the night before. Thankfully it's back to working again. We were originally going to walk around East Quincy but we got a call from Larry and he said he need help moving some stuff in his house so we went over and did that. We started weekly planning and then at 2pm we went to the church and did family history with Larry. After that we completed our weekly planning and then had dinner. We had Thursday night basketball and holy moly it was a great turnout. We had 19 PEOPLE show up!!!! Only 4 of us there were members. We started with a spiritual thought and prayer.. We had to make a list of who had next because it was too hard to keep track. Another plus is that everyone had a great time and were saying that they are so glad they have somewhere to play and they will come back!! I was able to talk to a couple of people on the sidelines about mission life and why I'm out here and things like that so that's another plus. Everyone has kept there behavior in check and also their language mostly clean. Whenever someone slips up they either apologize immediately or someone else tells them to not cuss. All in all we had a very successful basketball night. Like how else do you get 15 PEOPLE to even be inside the church who aren't members. Even if none of them get baptized just the thought of us planting a good seed and they have a good image of the church and missionaries is good for me. A baptism is just extra that I definitely wouldn't complain about haha
Friday
In the morning we went and walked around an apartment complex and contacted people there. One lady come up to us and warned us to not knock #23 because they use electricity and are evil. Whatever that means I have no idea haha. We were supposed to help Ray move some stuff from his camp trailer to his camping spot but we couldn't find him. We spent nearly an hour checking all the places we know he might be and we finally found him at the library and he said he wasn't doing it today anymore 
We walked around and contacted some more people and then had a Bible Study with Sidney. We had our first dinner in a week which was nice. In the middle of dinner I received a messenger call from my mom which doesn't happen so I was pretty confused on why she was calling because it wasn't P day. I answered and that's when I found out that my papa was close to passing away and it was time for goodbyes. I went outside and was able to say goodbye to papa and talk to him for a couple of minutes. I'm so grateful that I was able to say goodbye. Grateful for technology that missionaries now have that enabled me to talk to my papa one last time before he passed the next day. After I got off the phone I went back inside and carried on with the dinner and evening. We were able to catch the last couple of minutes of the high school basketball game which was really good. It was PACKED with people and we were able to say hi to a good few of the people that come to basketball on Thursdays.
We walked around and contacted some more people and then had a Bible Study with Sidney. We had our first dinner in a week which was nice. In the middle of dinner I received a messenger call from my mom which doesn't happen so I was pretty confused on why she was calling because it wasn't P day. I answered and that's when I found out that my papa was close to passing away and it was time for goodbyes. I went outside and was able to say goodbye to papa and talk to him for a couple of minutes. I'm so grateful that I was able to say goodbye. Grateful for technology that missionaries now have that enabled me to talk to my papa one last time before he passed the next day. After I got off the phone I went back inside and carried on with the dinner and evening. We were able to catch the last couple of minutes of the high school basketball game which was really good. It was PACKED with people and we were able to say hi to a good few of the people that come to basketball on Thursdays.Saturday
I woke up to the message that my papa had died in the night. It's a weird sensation that I haven't experienced before with a loved one passing away especially with how my papa's health was. We were all hoping that he would be freed from his current state of living but it still hurts when it actually happens. I had that on the back of my mind a lot of the day. We went to Bills house and helped him with repairs on his heating vents. We planned to go to lunch with him and Larry at 2pm which I was really excited for. We had a good contact with a less active member and then we were going up to Greenhorn (up the mountain). Google Maps told us to go up this one road that we didn't know but we went up there to go contact one of our investigators. Well as we were going up it was pretty snowy on the ground because it's an unpaved road and right when we were going to turn around we got STUCK. We couldn't move at all. The right two tires were moving but the left two weren't moving at all. We had high centered the truck on a foot of snow. It took us 2 HOURS to dig ourselves out of there. Because we got stuck, we missed our lunch appointment with Bill and Larry and we had no service to call them. It hurt my heart to know that they were at the restaurant waiting for us and we never showed. They told us afterwards that they were there for an hour and a half waiting and eventually gave up. After the whole fiasco with that we changed from our cold wet clothes to new ones and went out to contact some people. Saturday was not a very good day because of all things that happened agaianst me but I managed it.
Sunday
Elder Haufe and I spoke during sacrament meeting. My companion gave a solid 5 minutes talk and left with me 25 minutes to spare haha. I filled the whole time though and I personally believe that I gave a good talk. After church we met with Bill and Larry to explain what had happened the day before. We contacted more people during the afternoon and even crashed a Super Bowl party on accident haha. We gave them a game night flyer, took a taco, watched 5 mins of the game, then dipped haha. I wish I could've watched the Super Bowl but it's only 2 years and I'm doing much better stuff than football haha. We met with Vicki and Terry Schilingar again and introduced our Elders quorum president. We ended the day by going to the Grandalls house and eating apple crisp.
Lesson Reviews
Kristina
She asked for a Bible while we were out walking and we gave her one. We ended up helping her start her generator and we said a prayer to help it kick on and testified the importance of prayer. We are going to go back and read The Bible with her next Friday.
Brittany
We shared Alma 37: 36-37 and testified on the importance of prayer. We taught that we need to pray not just when we need something but everyday. They said that they say their prayers and we invited then to keep doing that.
Larry
We started off by reading 1 Nephi 18 and got through half of the chapter. We read up to verse 16 and then Larry had some questions that lead us to a deep discussion on the Atonement of Jesus Christ. He had questions on if God forgives serial killers and more questions like that. We explained the Atonement and God's love. We read Alma 42: 25-29 and explained justice and mercy and how they go hand in hand because of Christ. We made sure to make a point on focusing on your own sins and relationship with God and Jesus Christ and to forgive others. The Spirit definitely lead the discussion they way it needed to go.
Sidney
Had an awesome lesson with Sidney! Read John 18-21, and talked about the atonement, the crucifixion, and the resurrection of Christ.
Well that's it for this week. Please wish me luck on this upcoming transfer and that my new companion and I will get into the groove of things quickly! Also thank you for all the prayers for my family as we mourn the loss of our grandpa. I love y'all so much!!!
Have a great week!
Elder Proctor
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