Quincy Week 20 (Mission Week 59)

Hey guys!!

Well the craziness and not normal missionary routine continued this week..... I knew being in a trio was gonna be different but boy this is not because of just being in a trio but who I'm in the trio with haha. We recieved many more calls from President Dunn this past week (once again he didn't need to talk to me at all) and because of this we were always on edge and the plans for the day could change within a moment. I'll let you know how the week went now and you'll understand why it was eventful but not in a good way.

Monday

We did normal pday things and went disc golfing and we got lunch with Bekah at Morning Thunder. One thing that we did that isn't a usual pday thing is explore the site of a quadruple homicide. If you look up the Keddie Cabin Murders you will find out that it is one of the most puzzling and prolific cold cases in US law enforcement. There have been dozens of documentaries, crime shows, and books written about it. It happened in 1981 and it's still unsolved. Yall should definitely look it up and form your own opinion on what happened because we sure have haha. I found this out and immediately started geeking out about it so we had to go explore the site because it was here about 10 minutes from Quincy. During the evening we had a lesson with Ryan and then balled with Nate and his friends.

Tuesday

We had district council and spent a majority of the day in Susanville. We did some work in Greenville and had dinner with the Cook family. Not too much happened today

Wednesday

We helped the Dolezals put with yard work in the morning. President Dunn called a couple of times while we were there concerning the reason why we were were in Reno last Friday. He talked to Elder Richardson and his stake president called as well. We were kinda on edge the rest of the day expecting calls. Despite this we still managed to get some work done. We street contacted a while and stopped by a couple of the people we are teaching. During the evening we went to the disc golf night at Pioneer Park. It was the 3 of us missionaries with one other guy on a scorecard so hopefully we didn't overwhelm him with our "holiness" lol. Jk but it was fun to talk to him the whole time we were playing.

Thursday

It was a SUPER wierd and crazy day. The whole week has had us on edge because we didn't know whether Elder Richardson would be going home or not and it definetly affected our work. We finally recieved the news while we were weekly planning though. President called and asked to speak to Elder Richardson. He went into a room and 5 minutes later he tossed the phone on the couch and then went back into the room pretty upset. Elder Salinas and I looked at each other and both knew right away that President told him he was being sent home. 10 minutes later he came out and confirmed our thoughts and then we talked for about an hour about everything. We still didn't know when he was leaving (Friday or Saturday) so that was annoying but we knew that he was going home. We went to basketball that night and had a good turnout with 20 people. Unfortunately we will probably lose some people because the college here got out for summer so they will be going home but oh well. That night at around 9:30pm we got the news that we were to drop off Elder Richardson at the mission office in Reno at 11am tomorrow morning.

Friday

We headed out early to be in Reno at 11am. We dropped of Elder Richardson and said bye. He was flying home soon after. I won't go into detail but this is for all those who are serving a mission now or planning on serving but PLEASE obey the mission standards. I know we aren't perfect and even I can think of many things that I could be more obedient on but never cross the line too far to where it gets you sent home. Whatever it is youre thinking about doing please don't do it. It's not worth it. Anyways after the trio died it was back to Elder Salinas and I. Officially our 3rd transfer together as a companionship haha. We spent some time in Reno doing some things that we can't in Quincy (aka as Walmart and oil change haha) and we even got our food paid for at Canes!!!! That night we went to Bekahs church's movie night. They showed a movie called "The Jesus Revolution" and it was pretty good. Bekah was happy to see us there and I recognized some of the congregation there. We met her parents and we talked about getting a dinner set up with all of them!!

Saturday

I was glad that Elder Richardson left on Friday and not today because it was full of activities. We had the ward cleaning day at 10am and then a ward BBQ and game day. There wasnt a good turnout to the game day like usual so it was legit Megan, Bekah, and us two and Brother Smailes still cleaning by the end of it. One strange thing that happened was that I noticed some random guy outside talking to Brother Stokes and Hedrick so I went out to talk to him. Boy did he have some stuff to say. He pretty much vented his problems and how God needs to explain himself on how he's been treated etc and was crying by the end of it. He was definitely on something and I believe he is homeless. By the end it was Elder Salinas and I and Bekah talking with him. He gave us each hugs and he kissed my neck and I've never been so scared in my life. Immediately after he kissed my neck it started burning and felt wierd and I thought it was the end of Elder Proctor. Thought I was gonna have to be taken to the hospital across the road because he poked me with something. Turns out it was just his beard that aggravated my skin haha. Phew. We did some contacting during the afternoon and then had the YSA BBQ at the Tanners place that was supposed to be last week (that we still had at the McAllisters without without knowing lol). We had to leave midway through though to head to the church for volleyball night. Right when we got to the church the whole gym ran outta there and hid from us. That's the effect I have on people. Wow. Haha it was just a joke luckily.

Sunday

We had our church meetings and potluck which is always fun. Bekah came for the potluck!! After church we had a lesson with Robin who we did service for back when the snow storms hit. It went well. After that we went over to the McAllisters and had a youth lesson with Chavis. We then helped Sister Martinezs niece move some furniture to her apartment. We had a great dinner with Sister Christenson and her husband Bill. Turns out Bill and I have the dame love for plane watching through the app FlightRadar24!!! Weird and unexpected way to connect with someone but cool!!! During the evening we watched the YSA devotional by Elder Oaks with Bekah and Brayden McAllister. We invited all the YSA but only them two were available. The devotional was absolutely fire and I encourage everyone to watch it. After the devotional we were at the church for a while longer answering some of Bekahs questions about the church and some of our beliefs. 

Lesson Reviews

Ryan

We read from 2 Nephi 4: 16-35 and talked about putting our trust in God. We explained how baptism is a sign that we are putting are trust in God forever.

Robin

We had a good discussion with Robin about her questions that she asked us. We talked about the role of women in the organizations in the church. We discussed how faith is the primary aspect to everything amd it's why we are put here on missions. We talked about what missions are all about as well. We discussed the Book of Mormon and explained where it came from and how it relates to the Bible and why we believe it to be the Word of God. We set up a return appointment with her for next Saturday.

Chavis (Youth Lesson)

We had a great discussion about the Plan of Salvation! Chavis has some good questions and also some related to how missionaries teach the lessons which is a good sign. Future missionary right there. We dove into the topic of Ressurection a bit deeper than expected but when you are with members it's hard not to. All in all Chavis has a good understanding on the Plan of Salvation and how the Atonement of Jesus Christ is at the center of it.

Once again like last week we didn't have too many lessons because of all the stuff going on with President. Luckily it's all settled out now and I'm hoping that we can get right back into routine and start having great weeks filled with lessons like the past! One really cool thing I'd like to mention is that we have an activity that we can invite people to pretty much every night! Tuesday nights are YSA activities, Wednesday nights is community disc golf, Thursday night is basketball, Friday nights will soon to be Greenville basketball (working with members in Greenville to get this going) and Saturday nights is volleyball night!! So even if we don't teach a lot of people the amount of seeds we are planting with our good examples and light that shines from us is through the roof!!

That's it from this week. I love yall!!!

Have a great week

Elder Proctor

Pics

At the murder site (house has been demolished but we did go inside the house of the suspected killer )

The mission office has the wall of baptisms and it was my first time seeing Gary and Maddy up there!