Hey guys!!! Another late email. I have got to get better at emailing on time. Anyways my week went well. It has finally got to the point where it is consistently nice outside and I'm super stoked about it. Here's how my week went.
Monday
We had a great pday disc golfing with Blake and Andrew. In the evening we had a great discussion with Ryan. After Ryan we hit up Mike and scheduled a lesson with him for Wednesday night.
Tuesday
We had district council which took up a good portion of the day. We did some work in Greenville after. We had a lesson with Brenda but it fell through once again. She said that she was busy and we could come back on Friday. We then went over to JoyAnn and Hugh's place to do some unplanned service since all of our plans failed. After dinner with the Myers we headed down to Quincy for a lesson with Maddy. After the lesson we went to the church and had a ysa activity. It was only 5 of us there but at least the opportunity is there for the other 8 ysa.
Wednesday
We did a lot of service. We went up to Jacob's place in Greenhorn and helped him out for a bit. We took out all the tabs that were left in the concrete foundation of the house he's building because the company did not. We had some good conversations with him as we worked. After lunch we helped the Dolezals move a lot of flooring out of their living room. It looks so good now!! I didn't even think of it all the times I was there but Sister Dolezal did some nice work organizing their living room. After that we helped move a hospital bed from someone's apartment into storage for Sister Dolezals work "The Hope Chest". After this Elder Salinas wasn't feeling good so we rested for a couple of hours. At 5:30 we went to Pioneer Park and had a round of disc golf with the Plumas County Disc Golf Club. We were competing for bag tags (mentioned in my email 2 weeks ago) and I came out with the same tag I came with (which is good haha). A lady on my scorecard knew our Bishops wife so that was a cool connection to find while we played. I had an awesome eagle putt from 90 feet out and I was pretty excited about that. It's nice when you make a nice shot and everyone on the course starts cheering haha. After the round we went to our lesson with Mike. This was probably the strangest lesson I've had haha. Not because of what we discussed but the overall look of the lesson. So first of all we weren't even in church clothes because we didn't have time to change so I was legit in a hoodie and sweatpants. Second of all he made us burgers but it was like 8:30 at night. Third of all while we are talking I look over and guess who I see come out of the backroom. Freaking Brenda from Greenville!!! That was the last person I thought I would see that night. So we were all in regular clothes, eating burgers, with 2 investigators from 2 different areas 30 minutes from each other at 9pm at night haha. After the lesson it definelty gave me a good laugh and made me happy I'm a missionary
Thursday
Elder Salinas still wasnt feeling his best so we decided to take the morning so he could work in the afternoon. After lunch we did our weekly planning session and then went out with Brother Dolezal and Blake and did a disc golf birthday round because it was Brother Dolezals birthday. Blake is Brother Dolezals sons nonmember friend and it has been cool to see our relationship grow because of disc golf. He is much more comfortable with missionaries now that I have been here and here's to hoping that'll lead to him asking questions. We had a birthday dinner at the Dolezals place as well which was really fun. The Bridges were there as well (Dolezal family friends/Blake's family) We had French dip as well as the best carrot cake I have ever tasted. We ended the night with basketball!
Friday
We proselyted Jackson Street and contacted some people and knocked doors. We ran into Bill and Larry since they live on Jackson Street and he immediately started talking about what had happened a few weeks ago. Awkward..... we left as soon as we could haha. We went up to Greenville and had a lesson with Brenda that went really well. She said that she would come to church! We tried contacting a couple of others and then we headed back to Quincy for a lesson with Maddy. We were able to get Sister McAllister and her 10 year old daughter to come which was a big help. After dinner we on a search to find Ray since we hadn't seen him in a while but we couldn't find him. I guess he has already moved to the Bay area. To close off the night we went to the church to check the baptismal font and holy moly that thing is dirty. We will have to clean it before Maddy is baptized next Saturday. I Quincy hasn't had a baptism in over a year so I guess I get why it's dirty.
Saturday
We proselyted Center Street and contacted some people there in the morning. After lunch we had a great Book of Mormon read with Sidney. That afternoon we had a few lessons lined up but none went through so it turned into alot of walking time. One interesting thing was that Bill sent a message late last night asking if we wanted to come over for dinner and we responded but he never got back to us. We went to his place at 5 and said that we have tried to get ahold of him all day and he said that dinner wouldn't be ready until much later so we ended up not eating with him. Bill is definitely an interesting guy. A plus is he said he was thinking about us the other day before we ran into him on Friday so I guess it was meant to be. We ended the night by going to the ward volleyball night.
Sunday
Brenda said that she would come to church but she needed a ride so our plan was to pick her up with Brother Dolezal (he was giving us a ride to Greenville anyway because he is the high Councilor over Greenville) and take her to church. The morning of we text Brenda asking if we are still good to pick her up and she responded saying she will just go to the church down the street. We replied saying we were looking forward to seeing her at church and asking if she is sure she doesn't want to come with us and she responded saying "No thanks I'm good". Oh well what can you do. Our whole lesson was centered around how to feel forgiven and be better and we said it all starts with coming to church but I guess she doesn't want that even though she said she desperately needs it. Other than that we had a great meeting in Greenville. After church we drove back with Brother Dolezal to Quincy and had lunch at their house. Blake and Jenna were there too which was fun. We had a scheduled lesson that afternoon with some people but when we got there they said they weren't interested. We had dinner with the Walmers (Brother Walmer is so fun) and then after another one of our lessons fell through. We ended the night by trying to schedule some youth lessons.
Lesson Reviews
Ryan
We had a great lesson about the Plan of Salvation with Ryan. We centered it around how the Plan is possible through Jesus Christ and God's love for us. He had a question about the Law of Moses and sacrifice and what the Atonement has to do with it so we turned to Alma 34: 8-15 and it answered his question perfectly. He said that he was quite impressed to how we knew exactly where to turned to and he has asked it to other people and they usually just say I don't know. Big success right there. We continued on teaching and answering any questions he had. We talked about where the terms of the 3 Kingdoms of Glory come from and once again we knew where to turn to which is 1 Corinthians 15:40-41. This got him ponder it even more and he was connecting the dots and feeling the Spirit. We ended off by inviting him to read the Gospel of Jesus Christ pamphlet and we will be back Sunday night.
Maddy Pt 1
Pretty much a contact because we couldn't go inside because we didn't have a 2nd adult to go inside with us. We talked to Maddy about her baptism date and she still feels good about May 6. We talked about her interview and set a date for that as well. We talked about what we will go over and do in the next 2 weeks to prepare for her baptism!!
Mike and Brenda
Mike fed us burgers and while he was cooking we were talking about Christlike service and how he loves how our Church demonstrates this to all people. We are sitting on the couch and we see someone walk in from the other room and it's freaking Brenda from Greenville that we are trying to work with. How she got there we don't know but a big unexpected surprise. She had sent a referral a couple months back, declined it after we saw her, sent another one 2 months later so now we are trying to get something set up so seeing her at Mike's was very very unexpected. She had some questions and we answered them. Mike even was answering some of her questions and bearing testimony which was cool to see. We set up return appointments with Brenda on Friday in Greenville and Monday in Quincy with Mike.
Brenda
We mainly discussed how following the Gospel of Jesus Christ is how we are forgiven and feel forgiven for the things we do. She said that she wants to start on the path of developing her relationship ship with God and apologized for how things ended last time. She asked how do I fully repent and we responded by talking about baptism and she said that is something that she would like to do. She also showed us some of the apps/videos she uses to learn more. We directed her to the Gospel library app and told her to get her information from there because it's approved content. We invited her to church and she said she would love to try it out and wants to find the church that she feels right in. We also taught her how to pray!
Maddy Pt 2
We went over the last laws and Ordinances of the Gospel. We refreshed her memory on the Priesthood and how the church is organized. We used Mosiah 28:3 to teach missionary work, Mosiah 2:17 to teach service, and went over the Gospel of Jesus Christ again to teach endure to the end. We emphasized that coming to church and partaking of the sacrament as often as possible is a big part of enduring to the end. We also discussed the importance of why we are doing these certain things instead of just knowing what they are. Maddy retained the information well with a little "quiz" we did at the end which she got an A+ on. May 6th is still a go!!
Sidney
We read 1 Nephi 4, 5, 6 and talked about how the Lord will provide a way for us to obey His commandments even if all things seem stacked against us. We discussed how Nephi only wrote down things of upmost importance so we can trust that the things we read are very important to follow. We also talked more about the context/content of the Book of Mormon in general.
That's it for this week! This transfer is getting close to being over which I'm pretty sad about because I have a good chance of leaving 
. I would absolutely love to stay but Elder Salinas and I have been together for 2 transfers and I have been here longer so odds are against me. I still have 2 weeks though until I would be moved so here's to making the most out of every second I have!!!
. I would absolutely love to stay but Elder Salinas and I have been together for 2 transfers and I have been here longer so odds are against me. I still have 2 weeks though until I would be moved so here's to making the most out of every second I have!!!I love you guys. Have a great week!
Elder Proctor
Pic 1: Sasquatch
Pic 2: Ultimate low carb French toast (7 slices for 450 cals and 50g protein. Crazy hack
Pic 3-5: PARTY!!!
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