Happy late Mothers day everyone!! I hope all the mothers (and future mothers I guess) had a great day.
This past week was quite eventful but not in the way you might think. It was probably the weirdest and most non routine week of the mission so far. Barely any normal missionary work was done due to multiple trips to Reno and many calls from President Dunn. We got like 11 calls from him in 2 days (I think I've gotten 3-4 calls from him for me in the past year so it was alot) but he didn't call me specifically in anything so thats good. Dont worry I didn't do anything haha. You'll understand more if you read my weekly recap. Especially Friday and Saturday. Here it is!
Monday
Had a good last pday of the transfer. Nothing really special happened
Tuesday
We helped Bill chop wood and that was pretty fun. I like to chop wood. He took us out to lunch afterwars which was nice. He was excited to hear that both Elder Salinas and I were staying. After that we spent much of the afternoon cleaning and prepping the apartment for a trio. We rearranged the rooms and made sure it was all good for Elder Richardson to join us in Quincy. That night we had a YSA FHE activity at the Dolezals house playing board games. That was really fun. It was Elder Salinas and I, Nate, Drew (Nates friend), Megan, Sabrina, and Bekah that were there. It was a good time. Really happy it wasn't my last night in Quincy haha
Wednesday
It was transfer day. Luckily Elder Salinas and I didn't have to pack anything but we still got to go to Reno because we needed to get Richardson so we pretty much got a vacation to Reno haha. We picked up the box springs for the 3rd bed at 12:30 and saw a bunch of our friends at transfers and then we had 6 hours to kill in Reno as we waited. Usually they plan ahead for things like this to make it where you do work temporarily in another area but since Elder Turley (housing coordinator) wanted us there at 12:30 it wasn't the original plan. After transfers we went out and got all you can eat sushi at Kitzmos. After that we checked out the disc golf store (best selection of discs I've ever seen) and I got Elder Salinas a disc and I got 2. A duplicate of the disc that I got my hole in one with and then an MVP Tesla. I got some new shoes since mine were giving out after a year of work and then we just hung out until 7. We picked up Elder Richardson and then headed back to Quincy.
Thursday
It was Elder Richardsons first day in Quincy and my first day being in a trio. The dynamic is definitely different but it's manageable. We had service in the morning with Darrel and Jennifer in Meadow Valley. They fed us lunch afterwards which was great. We then headed home and we conducted our weekly planning session. We had a couple of people the we went to talk to and then we went to dinner with the Stokes. After dinner we went to basketball. I had bought 2 new nets in Reno for the hoops at the church so I put those on. I made the mistake of cutting some excess of the net which unbeknownst to me made the entire net fall apart 
oh well. I'll just get another one to replace it haha. They also cleaned the carpet which made one half of the court really wet so we couldn't even play full court even though we had enough people to. An elder in our zone is making the "Reno North Starting 5" hype video for our Sparks vs. Reno North that we want so desperately to happen so Megan recorded me playing so I could send in some highlights to be in the video haha. Hopefully they will send through email. Reno North will win that game.
oh well. I'll just get another one to replace it haha. They also cleaned the carpet which made one half of the court really wet so we couldn't even play full court even though we had enough people to. An elder in our zone is making the "Reno North Starting 5" hype video for our Sparks vs. Reno North that we want so desperately to happen so Megan recorded me playing so I could send in some highlights to be in the video haha. Hopefully they will send through email. Reno North will win that game.Friday
It was a VERY wierd day. So we had an entire day planned but first thing in the morning President calls like 5 times until we pick up and he says that he wants to meet with us at 4pm in Reno. This is definitely something you don't wanna hear as a missionary. Instantly I start thinking of everything I could be better at and think that I'm about to get chastised haha. I was like "oh crap we got home at 9:50 last night I'm going home" 
. Luckily this wasn't the case. I wasn't involved at all in what President had us to come for. We helped Bill cut more wood and load it up in the morning and he fed us lunch afterwards. We then drive down to Reno for the meeting. President needed to get some information and it took 3.5 hours to get everything sorted out. We got there at 4pm and didn't leave until 7:30pm. The whole time I did nothing but sit around while President talked to certain people. He had a meeting with Elder Salinas about a unrelated topic as before and told him that he was going to be Emergency transfered (ET) to Fallon because someone had to go home. This got me. When they came out of the room and told me I was speechless. I was so excited to be with Salinas for a 3rd transfer and 2 days into the transfer he was told he was gone. Our trio would've lasted a whole 1 day haha. Eventually we left and by coincidence the Walmers were in Reno and Elder Salinas wanted to say bye so it worked out and we had dinner with them at Chickfila! We made the trek back to Quincy after getting out entire transfer thrown upside down and even though it was 9:30pm when we got back we stopped by a couple of members so Salinas could say bye. Salinas then packed during the night because we were to be in Reno AGAIN at 11am Saturday morning.
. Luckily this wasn't the case. I wasn't involved at all in what President had us to come for. We helped Bill cut more wood and load it up in the morning and he fed us lunch afterwards. We then drive down to Reno for the meeting. President needed to get some information and it took 3.5 hours to get everything sorted out. We got there at 4pm and didn't leave until 7:30pm. The whole time I did nothing but sit around while President talked to certain people. He had a meeting with Elder Salinas about a unrelated topic as before and told him that he was going to be Emergency transfered (ET) to Fallon because someone had to go home. This got me. When they came out of the room and told me I was speechless. I was so excited to be with Salinas for a 3rd transfer and 2 days into the transfer he was told he was gone. Our trio would've lasted a whole 1 day haha. Eventually we left and by coincidence the Walmers were in Reno and Elder Salinas wanted to say bye so it worked out and we had dinner with them at Chickfila! We made the trek back to Quincy after getting out entire transfer thrown upside down and even though it was 9:30pm when we got back we stopped by a couple of members so Salinas could say bye. Salinas then packed during the night because we were to be in Reno AGAIN at 11am Saturday morning.Saturday
ANOTHER day that threw us for a loop. So once again early in the morning President calls us again and asked to talked with Elder Salinas. Keep in mind he is already completely packed, has already said bye to members, and we are gonna be leaving to Reno to send him off soon. He talks with him for a couple of minutes and what happened was President basically changed his mind and Elder Salinas wasn't leaving. Within 12 hours it went from Salinas being here, to him leaving to Fallon to train, then back to staying here. There was alot of mixed emotions. We were just sick of not being able to able to do regularly work and everything switching so we thought President would call back an hour later and say nevermind that nevermind your leaving Salinas. Luckily that didn't happen but I felt bad for Elder Salinas because he had already packed everything and pretty much accepted the fact that he was leaving and it changed within a second. I'm glad he's staying though and the trio lives on. Because we didn't have to go to Reno we were able to make the disc golf doubles round with the community club. Brother Dolezal was very surprised to see Salinad since he had just said bye 9 hours earlier last last night haha. Later that afternoon we met up with Megan at the church and gave her a blessing. She had been in the hospital because something was wrong with her arm so we got to bless her up. After that we went over to Carlos's place and said bye because he is moving back to Peurto Rico. Now we have no ward mission leader lol. That evening we had a YSA BBQ at the McAllisters house. It was originally going to be at the Tanners but they decided to postpone it because they only recieved confirmation from us and Megan that we would go but we when we told them they were many other that would come that didn't confirm they still decided to not have it. It's rare that all the YSA and even Bekah would be there so we had to do something. So we pretty much had the Tanners BBQ at the McAllisters house without them knowing 
. Don't tell them haha. It was really fun and we shared a spiritual message near the end about finding our missions in life.
. Don't tell them haha. It was really fun and we shared a spiritual message near the end about finding our missions in life.Sunday
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!! We went to Quincy church meetings and they were awesome as always. The McAllisters son gave his homecoming talk and everything else was centered around mothers. Apparently Brother Walmer makes pies on Mother Day for everyone so that was awesome. We had lunch with the Thackerays and then we had a youth lesson with Chavis. We had dinner with the Walmers and Bekah and Megan were there too. The Walmers daughter, Sabrina, is a YSA as well. It was a fun dinner and we did Come Follow Me with everyone after. We were going to leave but then it kinds transitioned outside and we were there for MUCH longer. Brother Walmer, Bekah, and I talked on the porch for like an hour (maybe more) about so many things. All in all we now have a dinner appointment with Bekah and her mom haha. Really excited for that because her mom is a very well known basketball coach and I'm gonna pick her brain about coaching and careers in sports. As well as the Gospel don't worry haha
Lesson Reviews
Chavis (Youth Lesson)
It was our first youth lesson with him. His family sat in on the lesson as well. We discussed the Gospel of Jesus Christ and and how it blesses our lives. He understands the doctrine well and is able to answer our questions!
Bekah (not a lesson but an awesome conversation so just thought I'd include it because it did take up most of Sunday night haha)
We talked with her outside the Walmers house for quite a while. We mainly talked about how living a God centered life blesses us and sometimes it means leaving others behind. We talked about our future careers and how Heavenly Father will help us decide if we have faith. We talked about baptism being the first step and we have temples where we further our relationship with God. Bekah said that she wants us to meet her mom and pick her brain about sports and coaching so we are going to have a dinner with them next week!
Thats it from this week. Not many lessons again this week because of how crazy the week was but I'm hoping to get back into normal missionary routine soon and start preaching the Gospel again haha. Thanks for all the prayers coming my way and I love yall!!!
Have a great week!
Elder Proctor
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