Hey everyone!!
I'm just gonna get straight into how my week went. Sorry this is coming so late. How that happened I don't know but it did haha
Monday
Regular pday. We went disc golfing with Andrew (Brother Dolezals son) and his friend Blake.
Tuesday
We spent the morning walking around Jackson Street talking to people as well as hitting up some previously contacted people. After lunch we had a great lesson with Sidney. In the past missionaries had just done Bible Studys with her but we pushed to start reading from the Book of Mormon and she said yes so that's what we did with her. After that we proselyted around Center Street. We had a lesson with Crystal but it didn't happen because she hadn't read the pamphlet and wasn't prepared. Bummer. We continued to proselyte as a backup and then after dinner we had a great lesson with Maddy. She is so close to baptism!!! May 6 is the day! We then went over to Mike for a lesson but his leg was hurting him really bad and it was swollen so we gave him a priesthood blessing and said we'd be back later in the week. I cooked a steak dinner for Elder Salinas and I and holy moly it looked amazing but the meat was pretty tough. Oh well. I'll get better at it and I'll appreciate any suggestions to make round tip steak not tough haha.
Wednesday
We had Zone Conference in Reno!!! It was pretty much a day vacation haha. The Conference was really fun as always and we learned a lot and got an increase in motivation. I had my interview with President Dunn which went well. I once again informed him that I wouldn't mind being in a biking area haha. After all our meetings (which went until about 5:30) we went over to Dillard's to get me a new suit. I came out with 2 but when I lost all my weight I got a new one and left the 2 in Washoe making it to where I only have 1. Although I'm very grateful to have one it's still really nice to have 2 so you can switch things up and have 2 to choose from. We then got some food and then headed back to Quincy
Thursday
We contacted and proselyted at an apartment complex in the morning. I had a mishap during lunch. I made porkchops and rice and I was very excited to eat it but as I was walking to the table I tripped and spilt it on the floor. Luckily all the chops stayed on the plate and it was salvageable but it still made be question my existence before a few minutes haha.. After lunch we conducted our weekly planning session and then went out of walked the neighborhood by the church. We had dinner with the Jordan's and then ended the day with basketball. Numbers at basketball are pretty low because of spring football at the college and baseball at the high school starting up but I'm still happy we are able to get a group together.
Friday
We helped the Dolezals out in the morning with a dump run. After lunch we had a great over the phone Book of Mormon read with Sidney. We proselyted Jackson Street during the afternoon and we stopped by the Walmers house during out walk and just swung on their swings in the front yard. What's funny is that I have a running joke that missionaries are the "Easter Eggs" of the real world so it funny to think about random people driving by and seeing two of the "Mormons" swinging on some random house swings but in reality we know the people who live there but they just aren't home haha. We had dinner with a part member (less active) family and had a lesson with Ryan who is the non member husband. Missionaries in the past have invited them to game nights and stuff and he has offered to feed us but never has pulled through so Elder Salinas and I just called him up and said "Hey about that dinner and lesson you mentioned could we do it on Friday?" and he said Yes! It pays to be bold haha. We had a good time.
Saturday
We originally were going to go to Greenhorn (about 20 minutes out of Quincy) next Saturday but I had the feeling that we needed to go this morning and talk to Jacob (who is the only reason to go to Greenhorn) so we did besides the fact we really don't have the miles for it haha. We talked with him and it went amazing!! We invited their family to the game night and they all came that night! They also came to church the next day as well!! They have a couple of primary aged kids so they fit in well. In the afternoon we just contacted a bunch of people inviting them to the game night. We knocked Becca and Taylor to see if they were still interested in taking lessons because neither of us had met them yet and they let us in and we had a great lesson. After that we had the game night which was very fun. Jacob's family as well as Desiree, Maddy, and Ruby (Maddys little sister) came. Late at night after the game night I decided to make some cookies for the potluck the next day but I needed one more cup of flour. I decided to go across to our neighbors and asked for it and they gave it to me!! Keep in mind it's like 10pm haha. I saw their lights on so I sent it and it turned out well. I'll send a Google Drive link for the video because my companion videos it and it's quite funny.
Sunday
We had church in Quincy this week. Nonmember attendance was Jacob's family, Maddys family, and Sherry Ann with her husband. We had a potluck after church (I love Quincy for many reasons but the fact that this was my 7th potluck in 3 1/2 months is up there in the rankings haha) After church we had a lesson with Sherry Ann. We had dinner with the Walmers and then proselyted a bit after.
Lesson Reviews
Sidney
We gave her a Book of Mormon and we read the Title Page, Intro, and Testimonies with her. We talked about how the Bible and Book of Mormon go hand in hand and strengthen each other. We talked about prophets and apostles and how God still talk to His children. We shared Alma 32:27 and testified that she must have the desire to know the truth if she is to recieve it. She was receptive to all what we said and she said that she will start reading it from 1 Nephi 1!
Maddy
We asked if she had prayed about being baptized on May 6th and she said that she feels good about that day!!! We taught the rest of the commandments that we hadn't gone over yet. We also showed a Gospel for Kids video on baptism. Maddy is expressing a lot of excitement about being baptized and says that she feels closer to Jesus when she thinks about it!
Sidney Pt. 2
We read 1 Nephi 1-3 with her and discussed what we can learn from what we read. We gave some explanation on the storyline as well as some deeper understanding on how and when the Book of Mormon was written.
Ryan
We ate dinner with them and then after we discussed his history with the missionaries and what he had been taught. He said that he was working on stopping smoking and now he rarely smokes. He said that he would like to take the lesson again and progress towards baptism. He asked if we had something for him to read so we briefly went over the Plan of Salvation pamphlet and we will return on Monday night to have a full Plan of Salvation lesson.
Becca and Taylor
We knocked just to see if they were still interested in taking the lessons and they let us in and we started talking immediately. Becca said that she just had been praying and telling Taylor that they needed to put God more in their life and its not a coincidence that we stopped by. We asked what they remember from previous missionaries and they said they remember modern day prophets so this took us into the Restoration and how we have modern day prophets now. We talked about the Priesthood and how it blesses us and our families. We discussed how the Book of Mormon and Bible go hand in hand. Taylor said that he would love to experience the feeling of being baptized so we asked them both if being baptized is something that we can help them work towards and they said yes! We gave them Book of Mormons and a GOJC pamphlet and will have another lesson next Saturday.
Sherry Ann
We had a great lesson on the Word of Wisdom, Law of Chastity, and LA and Titihing. We used D&C 89 to teach the Word of Wisdom and discussed how it blesses our lives. We read from the Family Proclamation to teach the Law of Chastity. We read Malachi 3:10-11 to discuss the Law of Tithing. We related all of these commandments to following prophets because each thing we used in the lesson was given to us by prophets. We also talked about how all blessings are predicated on obedience to God's commandments. We asked if she were a baptized member of the Church would she strive to follow these commandments and she said yes!
That's it for this week!! I love yall!
Have a great week!
Elder Proctor
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