Quincy Week 13 (Mission Week 52) My 1 Year Mark!

 Hello everyone!!!!

I hit my year mark!!!! 6 companions, 3 areas, 1 year. I can't believe that I've been a missionary for one year already and I'm halfway through. There is so much truth behind the statement that time goes slow but fast at the same time on the mission. Days feel like weeks but weeks feel like days. I'm so grateful for the time I've already had and am looking forward to what my 2nd and final year as a missionary has in store. Anyways here's how my week went!

Monday

We played a round of disc golf and I also got a haircut. It was the longest haircut of my life. The barber felt the need to tell me his near death experience and what he experienced. He said he was with Jesus and they went to another planet and saw some people dancing to make fruit come out of the ground which is how Adam and Eve produced fruit in the Garden of Eden. The entire thing was crazy. It was a 55 minute haircut lol.

Tuesday

We took one last day of rest to hopefully kick out our sickness before the first day of the transfer. We spent the day deep cleaning the place after a week of being sick and stuff piling up. Our place smells and looks great and fresh now. Perfect start to a new transfer of work! It also snowed all day and we drove in it to Greenville for a dinner. I was pretty scared the whole way haha. In the evening we went to Nates mission call opening and he's going to Mexico!!!!! Whats funny is that there was some technical difficulties when he opened it and he came to us to ask if he opened it right and we saw that he was already on the mission portal page which has his missions name plastered on the top so we immediately took his phone away and went to another room to get the call letter haha. So we figured out where he was going before anyone else. After we went to his house and talked about missions and shared a spiritual message with the couple of families that were there.

Wednesday

We spent pretty much the entire day walking. It was cold and wet the whole day so it's wasn't the most fun day to be a proselyting day but we did talk to a couple of people. We found a lady named Jeri that looks promising. We ended the night with a lesson with Mike

Thursday

We spent the morning tracting and then the rest of the afternoon was planning. The entire town of Quincy lost power around 1pm which was wierd. What's funny is that in the middle of weekly planning we went to get something to eat to take a break and when we got our food we overheard the waitress say to a couple that they could only take cash because the power was out. I had to go up there and tell them that I didn't have cash and we left and came back with cash haha. Our food was pretty cold by then haha. Because the power was out no one showed up to basketball. We went up there to let people know we weren't playing but at 7:45 the power kicked back on so we called a couple of people and we still got 10 people to play!

Friday

We spent the morning proselyting and then we had a fantastic lesson with Linda. We had Nate tag along with us. After the lesson we had lunch and then headed up to Greenville to do work. Our lesson with Lorraine fell through because her sister came right when we sat down and we felt like it wasn't a good time. We then were supposed to have a lesson with Brenda who was an online referall but that fell through as well. What is wierd is that we got a referral for her a couple of months ago and we had a good lesson but when we came back she was quite adamant about us not coming back. Fast forward 2 months later and she sent another request to meet . During the evening we had volleyball night which went well. Someone was asking about the "Mormon Bible" they saw so we had a good discussion after we played about the BoM.

Saturday

GENERAL CONFERENCE!!!!! It's crazy how its already been 6 months and we got to watch conference again. That took up our entire day but we did work in between sessions. We had a great first lesson with Kyleigh who a member referred us to teach. 

Sunday

MORE CONFERENCE!!! We watched it with Carlos and one of our friends, Mike, was supposed to come but he didn't. Oh well. We had breakfast and then watched both sessions. After conference we took a break because I have had sinus pressure headaches the past week because of a sinus infection. Why can't I just feel better?? I don't know but we still worked haha. We had a lesson with Mike but that fell through as well just like he didn't come to watch conference. He is on date to be baptized on May 6th but if he keeps doing this then he won't be ready.

Lesson Reviews

Jerri

We knocked her door and she said that we are the second set of missionaries(in general) in the past week that have come by. She said that our faith sticks out to her because of our members are wonderful people. She said that she would be up to learning why we have so much joy but her schedule is busy. She accepted a Restoration pamphlet and we talked a little about the principles found in in. We gave her our number to set up an appointment.

Mike

We read Mosiah 27 and discussed Alma the youngers conversion story and how it can relate to Mike. We talked about true repentance and what it means for us as God's children. We also talked about how baptism is showing true repentance and we talked about the symbolism behind baptism. We put him on date to be baptized on May 6 but told him that in order for it to happen he has to strive to live the things we teach him. We invited him to read 2 Nephi 31 and we will discuss it next lesson.

Linda

We asked if she had any questions, which she did, so that lead us into a great discussion. She had done some more of her own research and had printed off the Articles of Faith and had written notes and questions which we were able to answer. We talked about more of our core beliefs. We also went over the Fall and how it was apart of God's plan and we are judged based on our own sins and not Adam's which she agreed with. We covered the Book of Mormon again and how Joseph Smith translated it by the gift and power of God. We had to cut it short but we gave her a Plan of Salvation pamphlet and said we'd go over that next time. She said that she's happy that we are actually able to answer her questions because no one else has been able to do that before.

Kyleigh

We initially were going to do a Restoration lesson but when we asked if she had any overall questions she expressed a want to know of what happens after we die so we taught the Plan of Salvation. She was very involved and she said that she has never heard any of it before but it made her feel good. We testified that that was the Holy Ghost and it's because she is hearing truth that she is comforted. We told her that this all came from the Book of Mormon and she said that she would like to start reading it.

That's it for this week!! Once again thanks for all the prayers and thoughts coming my way. I surely appreciate the emails yall send as well. I may not respond but know that I read every one. I love yall!!

Have a great week

Elder Proctor