I hope y'all are doing well at home! I had a pretty fun week last week. We had transfers and I am now with Elder Salinas is Quincy. Also my return to Washoe Valley for Wednesday afternoon was so much fun. Going back there and remembering how much I love the people there has increased my thankfulness of being out on a mission. There's no other time in my life that I'll have these opportunities so I need to make the most out of it before its over in a little over a year. Anyways here's how my week went!
Monday
It was a fun p day. We played a round of disc golf with Brother Dolezal and a couple of his disc golf buddies which was really fun. We played it tournament style so it took a really long time which is fine by me haha. After we did that we went over to the Dolezals house and played card games and had Burritos. In the evening we helped one of our members clean off their back porch and then headed home for the night.
Tuesday
It was Elder Haufes last day in the area. He was packing periodically through the day. We were supposed to have a lesson with Ray but it fell through. We had a lesson with Chad and we had one of our youth, Nate, tag along but that one fell through too. Bummer. We were able to do Family History with Larry in the afternoon. Now that Elder Haufe is gone I don't know what we are going to do because his knowledge with FamilySearch is WAYYY more advanced than mine. We will figure it out haha. We went over to the Dolezals house so Haufe could say bye. We then went to the hospital because Brother Walmer works there and Elder Haufe wanted to say bye to him too. It was funny because we were waiting in our car for him and before we knew it our back door flung open and he jumped into our car and sat down saying "HI GUYS!" He's a great funny guy. Elder Haufe said some more goodbyes and then we had a lesson with Maddy that went well. We actually put her on date to be baptized! After that lesson Larry took us out for a late farewell dinner and Carlos tagged along as well.
Wednesday (Return to Washoe Valley)
This was practically a vacation day for me. It was transfer day so we headed down to Reno and transfers were at 12:30. I said bye to Elder Haufe and he left to go to his new area and I joined Elder Beyler for the rest of the day because both of our companions were traveling from Elko on the transfer van and and wouldn't get to Reno until much later. Elder Beylers area is Washoe Valley which meant that I could make a return to Washoe for the afternoon!!!!! I am soooo happy that I got to say hi to the people there. We drove to Washoe house that we stayed at and I checked if anyone had taken the suits that were too big I left there when I got transferred and one of them were gone! I'm glad I left them haha. We then went to go say hi to the Curtis family. I found out that their son had received his mission call since I had left so that was exciting. After that we went to the Andersons. Brother Anderson was at work sadly but I got to say hi to the rest of the fam. We then drove up the mountain and said hi to the Krums. We actually ended up eating dinner with them haha. One of their kids was at work when I came by and when she found out I was there she rushed home to say hi before I left haha. I was so glad I got to see the whole fam. It was getting close to 6 and was about time to get going back to the mission office but then we found out that the transfer van was still 3 hours out so my return to Washoe lasted much longer than expected!!! I got to go to mutual and see A LOT more people than I had expected to which was AWESOME!!! I got to see the whole youth and a couple more families that I didn't have time to originally. I'm so glad that I was able to do that. I really needed it. All good things must come to an end though. We said bye to everyone after mutual ended and headed to the mission office. The transfer van finally arrived at 9pm and I picked up Elder Salinas and we headed back to Quincy. We didn't get back until 11pm. It was a long but VERY enjoyable day.
Thursday
Mine and Elder Salinas first day together. We did some shopping in the morning and then went to Bishop Thackerays work and introduced him. I watched the funeral for my papa around noon. Super happy that I have the technology to do that. We then conducted our weekly planning session and I gave Elder Salinas a rundown of the people we are teaching. We had a dinner with the Stokes which was awesome because we rarely have member meals here. After dinner we went to the church for basketball. We brought out the scoreboard and a whiteboard for everyone to write their names down so we could keep a better track on who has next game. It worked very well and we had a good turnout again. We had 14 people there. One of our investigators sons came too which I was happy to see!
Friday
We helped out at the food pantry in the morning for 2 hours. We had an over the phone Bible Study lesson with Sydney that went well. We headed up to Greenville to do some work there during the afternoon. We had a return appointment with Kristina that fell through unfortunately. We tried to contact Brittant but she wasn't home. A plan that was supposed to last 45 minutes went by in 5 haha. We ended up just knocking doors for an hour and no one was really in a talking mood. We did get a referral to go try a set of apartments somewhere in town that we didn't know about so we are going to do that next week. We headed back down to Quincy and had an awesome dinner with the Dolezals. After that we introduced Elder Salinas to our ward mission leader, Carlos.
Saturday
We had a our game brunch that went really well! The Schillingars came so I was super happy to see that and they made some friends there as well!!! We had waffles and other brunch type food and played board/card games. We helped Brother Dolezal with some yard cleanup in the afternoon. We had dinner with Carlos and then after the 3 of us went over the Bill and Larry's and we had an AWESOME lesson about the Atonement of Jesus Christ. What was great was that I was able to talk about my cleft lip and palate and it really brought the Spirit into the room. Bills birthday was 2 days before so we gave him some birthday cards and we had a birthday apple cinnamon bread dessert!
Sunday
We had regular church meetings but with a ward potluck afterwards! If there's one thing that Quincy Ward has down its their potlucks. This is my 5th one here and I've been here for 1 transfer. Potlucks are awesome. We did all our studies after church and then we had a great discussion with Terry and Vicki. We brought Carlos along and introduced him to them. They said they that really enjoyed the game night and will come to the next potluck! After the lesson we had a correlation meeting with Carlos that lasted a while but we talked about some good stuff. We ended the day by going to the Grandalls and introducing them to Elder Salinas and eating apple crisp!
Lesson Reviews
Maddy
We went over the Tree of Life vision and watch the BoM video associated with it. We talked about the symbolisms behind the vision. We talked about how when we are baptized we are partaking of the fruit and our souls are filled with joy. We asked her if she wants to be baptized and she immediately said yes!!!! We asked Desiree and she was on board with it. We set a date for April 12 (which is a Wednesday) because she said she has had thoughts about that being the date. We asked her to pray about it and tell us the answer she gets. Top priority now is making sure she understands everything as well as making sure she will have the support at home after she is baptized.
Sydney
We read Acts 1-3. We were actually able to teach some principles in the lesson from the Gospel of Jesus Christ and a little bit of the Restoration. We talked about how Christ set the perfect example of what we need to do which is why we follow His Gospel.
Bill and Larry
We read Mosiah 3 and discussed what we learned from its precepts. We mainly talked about the Atonement of Jesus Christ and what it covers, what He suffered for, and how we can gain strength from our Savior. We testified that it is only through Jesus Christs name that we can be saved. We taught how it is through The Holy Ghost that we know the truth of things and that prayer is how we ask to know the truth. We also talked about how missionary work is just delaring that joy can be felt through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
Terry and Vicki
Super good discussion! We talked about how The Spirit communicates to our spirit as well as when we meet people our spirits communicate as well. We talked about building our foundation on Christ and when we do then we will not fall. Carlos and Vicki both shared their stories of how they found for themselves that the Church was true. Vicki said that what got her was the Premortal life and it just made sense. We talked about how we are here on Earth at this time for a reason. We read Helaman 5: 6-12 and talked about how remembering our covenants and why we believe is so important.
Well that's it from this week! I love y'all!
Have a great week
Elder Proctor
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