Quincy Week 9 (Mission Week 48)

Quincy - Week 48

How's it going everyone?!!

This past week has been good. It has continued to snow more and more which means a lot more shoveling. I have been told that this is the most snow Quincy has had since 1993. What luck I have to be here when this only happens every 30 years haha. There has been hidden blessings from the snow though. We have 5 or 6 new people that I can think of that we have met that we didn't know before the storms so that's a good thing. The snow has increased our teaching pool so thank you snow haha. It was a busy week from shoveling to teaching. We had 11 lessons planned throughout the week but only 4 of them happened. Some had valid excuses and some didn't haha. I'm glad for the ones that we did have because they were great. Here's how my week went.

Monday

Just a regular p day. It continued to snow for the 6th day straight.. We played basketball in the afternoon and then contacted some people in the evening.

Tuesday

Because of the snow we weren't able to drive to Susanville for district council. It was coming down very hard. Instead we drove to the church building and did it over Zoom. I led the training on Christlike attributes and it went well. We had a lesson with Rianna that fell through. We then proceeded to shovel snow the entire day. One good thing is that we shoveled for a lady named Linda and after we were able to share the Restoration with her and she wants us to come back! She even asked for a Book of Mormon. That was the success of the day.

Wednesday

You guessed it. More shoveling. We had a couple more people call us asking for help so that's what we did during the day. We had two lessons with Renae and Brittany but both of them fell through. We don't think Re are is interested and then Brittney ruptured her eardrum and was going to the doctor. We were able to give Brittany a blessing though so that is good. We got a break from the snow which was awesome. 

Thursday

We spent the day in Meadow Valley shoveling snow. A guy named Darrell called us and asked for help. He and his wife are extremely nice and are familiar with the Church. They fed us grilled cheese, soup, and cookies. We were also able to talk about the Gospel as well so that's a success. Luckily the snow managed to stay away so it made shoveling a lot easier. We had basketball in the evening and that went extremely well. 19 people came including the high school basketball coach and the college coaches. They were pretty good too which made it fun. We also made the realization that two of the people that come are actually in our records as grey dots (not interested or not teaching). We hope to use that to our advantage.

Friday

It didn't snow today either. We helped out at the food pantry in the morning. We then went to a lesson with Joy but it fell through. Oh well. We shoveled some more and then drove to Meadow Valley and continued shoveling there. We had a lesson with Maddy that also fell through unfortunately. A good thing about this day was that we got to talked with Darrell and Jennifer again.

Saturday

The return of the snow for the 3rd time. The 3rd winter storm to hit Quincy started so that means even more shoveling for a couple of days. In the morning we had an AWESOME lesson with Linda, the lady we found after shoveling her driveway on Tuesday. Right after that we were supposed to have a lesson with Michael but because our member couldn't come due to her child being sick we had to cancel the lesson since we can't go inside Michael's apartment (Michael is a older woman). In replacement of that we just went and contacted some people. Our study with Sidney also fell through because of a play date so we rescheduled that. We then started walking around in the snow asking to help people who were shoveling their driveways. We had a great lesson with Mike in the evening. This guy has a giant baseball card collection and he has 6 cards that are worth 80,000 cards each!!!!! They are error cards of Barry Binds and he is working to get them authenticated so he can sell them haha. He gave us some 40 year old unopened card packs. Maybe I'll be rich because of it lol.

Sunday

It snowed A TON more overnight. Church was canceled which is a big deal because I thought last Sunday was a lot of snow but church didn't get canceled like this week. We went out and helped people shovel once again. I'm getting pretty tired of the snow. I want to go back to short sleeve shirts and 1 pair of pants haha. We had dinner with the Herbert's and we taught his wife, Sherry Ann, the first lesson because she is not a member but wants to learn more. They recently got married and she is from the Phillipines. The lesson went well. In the evening we had correlation meeting with Carlos. Our truck got stuck once again in the snow at 9pm at night while it was snowing hard. We had to call Brother Sandlin to help us get out. Luckily we weren't up a mountain and with no service this time. We got out within 25 minutes haha.

Lesson Reviews

Linda (Tuesday lesson)

She had questions about why there are so many religions and why we can't all be friends. That led us into talking about the Great Apostasy and where our church comes in and why we believe that we are the restored Church of Jesus Christ. We talked about the Book of Mormon and the Bible testifying together of Jesus Christ. She said she would like a Book of Mormon!! She said that she doesn't know about converting but she is very interested in what we have to say. We responded by saying that the Spirit will be with her and let her know what she needs to do.

Linda (Friday lesson)

Wow!! What a great discussion. She read the pamphlet and even wrote down questions and when we answered them she wrote notes. We talked about the difference between how Protestant religions came to be vs ours. We talked about proper priesthood authority and prophets. She had questions about general stereotypes about Mormons such as polygamy, garments, etc. We had a great discussion on the Holy Ghost and following promptings. She is very interested in learning. We gave her a Book of Mormon and invited her to read Alma 32!

Mike

The lesson took awhile to get started because he was showing us his baseball cards that are worth alot of money haha. We read Mosiah 18 and talked about what we can learn from the chapter. Mike talked about his past and his desire to change and he is already in the process of repentance. We are here to help him through that. We set up a return appointment for Wednesday.

Shelly Ann

We taught the Restoration in its entirety. She is pretty quiet because she isn't comfortable speaking English but she listens. We watched the Ask of God video after we taught. We invited her to read from the Book of Mormon as well as the GOJC pamphlet.

Well that's it for this week. We have zone conference and exchanges this weekend so I'll report on that next week. It's not supposed to stop snowing until mid week and then it's turning into rain so we will see how that goes haha. I love y'all and once again thanks for all the prayers and thoughts coming my way!!

Have a great week

Elder Proctor