Quincy Week 11 (Mission Week 50)

Hey guys!!

This is gonna be a shorter email this week! Alot of stuff happened last week but I wasn't able to write it all down so I'm gonna have to do a short summary or else I'd be writing this for hours haha. Here's how my week went!

Monday

Regular pday. We played basketball with some of the guys from Thursday night ball.

Tuesday

We had district council in Susanville which always takes up a majority of our time. We had dinner with Brother Cook and President Thrall in Greenville. Our lesson with Maddy was canceled. We got stopped on the way back from Greenville because of a landslide so that took even more of our time. That's pretty much it for Tuesday

Wednesday

We spent the morning walking around Downtown Quincy and we had a lesson with Ray. We took a bit of time in the afternoon making new meal calendars because we made the decision to give Greenville some days to feed us. Our lesson with Shelly fell through. We had dinner at the church with the Elders Quorum presidency before we had our meeting. We had a good lesson with Michael (a referral from Brother Asbury).

Thursday

We had service in Greenville in the morning and then headed back to Quincy to do our weekly planning. Our lesson with Nick fell through so we knocked some doors instead. We had Thursday night basketball and we had 35 people show up!!!! Holy moly was it fun. Somehow we managed to keep everyone's behavior in check. The elders quorum presidency came to see if we were keeping it in check and if it was a good thing and they were very impressed and even entertained haha. I played very well as well and my team won 9 games in a row and it got to the point where everyone was just trying to beat my team. It's funny because my team had a 6th grader and everyone else are either college football players or athletic guys haha. All in all it went very well.

Friday

We helped out at the food pantry in the morning. After we went out and contacted some people and invited them to the ward game night. We had a lesson with Lorraine that went well and then we traveled to help the Susanville elders with service before we started exchanges. I spent the exchange in Susanville with Elder Call.

Saturday

I was in Susanville for exchanges until 3pm and then on the way back to Quincy we contacted some people. We had a correlation meeting with Carlos and then we headed over to the game night. We usually invite a lady name Donata and her granddaughter to the game night but they haven't ever came but this time Simone (grand daughter) was there with one of our youth!! That was awesome to see. Also a couple of Nates friends who come to Thursday night ball were there too. It was a fun night.

Sunday

We had a great day at church. 5 non members were there!! Donata came with Simone and Donata even is friends with our relief society president so she was with her helping prepare for the potluck! Carlos brought his barber Aaron. Everyone enjoyed church and said they would come back. At the potluck I found a chicken nugget in the shape of Texas! I was going around showing everyone and I kept it haha. After church we contacted some people and then went over to Bill to address some concerns that we had about teaching him. It didn't really go too well and he said that he is done with coming to church. Hopefully we get that settled out but that took a lot of our time. Our return lesson with Michael fell through as well so we spent the night knocking doors to no avail.

Lesson Reviews

Ray

We read Mosiah 27 and talked about how Almas conversion story is similar to his life journey. We managed to make it 3/4 of the way through the chapter and he started to go off a little bit. We weren't able to finish the chapter because we ran out of time and he had went way off course. He plans to move to the Bay area soon and would like to get ahold of the missionaries there.

Michael

We introduced ourselves and talked about how Brother Asbury said that he wants to be baptized now and for Bro. Asbury to be his "sponsor". He said that is correct. He said that the last time he was ready for baptism the thing that got him was tobacco and he wouldn't give it up. He said that he wants to now but when we saw it on the table and asked if we could take it with us he said no and he can stop himself. We gave him a Restoration pamphlet and a quick synopsis and will return on Sunday night.

Lorraine

We went over the whole Restoration and she was writing notes on what we said. It actually went pretty well. At the end she expressed her belief that God doesn't hear her prayers because she is a sinner. We bore testimony that He does hear our prayers and we can never stray to far off the path to where He doesn't hear or answer. She also had a question on why religions change and we will answer that on our next lesson

Sidney

We read Acts 14-16 and talked about how being a Christian often comes with blessing, but also has it's fare share of trials as well. We also talked about how the law of Moses was done away with and that. We also talked a bit about our beliefs and she agreed to learn a bit about it!

Well that's it for this week. This is the last week of the transfer and I'm really hoping I stay here. I'll know by the next email!!

I love you guys!!

Have a great week

Elder Proctor