Quincy Week 21 (Mission Week 60)

Hello people! 

Another week gone. Times a flyin. This past week was great. Here's how it went.

Monday

We had a district activity in Quincy playing disc golf so that was fun. We got lunch at Morning Thunder afterwards and then played some board games. That evening we were invited to watch a talent show that one of the primary kids were in. She invited us personally so of course we had to make an appearance haha. Well it started at 6:30 at the Quincy Elementary School so we drive over there and there is no one at the school. We were sure it was today at 6:30 so we were pretty confused. We then drive to the McAllisters house because they posted a flyer on the telephone pole outside there house and it said it was today at 6:30 and at the Alder campus. Turns out theres 2 campuses to the Elementary school that we didnt know about. We find out where the talent show really is and we get there 15 minutes late and I'm thinking we will be fine because the SFA Charter talent show lasted over an hour usually. We rush in there and kid you not right as we sit down some 10 year old kid announces over the microphone "That concludes our talent show!!!"  The comedic timing on that was impeccable. Elder Salinas and I looked at each other and couldn't believe it haha. It was a 20 minutes talent show but I guess that's what you get when you're in a smaller town haha.

Tuesday

We had district council which was really good. Our district leader, Elder Larson, gives very good trainings. Definitely the best I've experienced on the mission. Afterwards we got lunch and then headed back to Greenville for service. After service we had dinner in Greenville and then headed back to Quincy for the YSA activity. I made a jeopardy game and some other games that we played. Another thing we did was find the secret library underneath the stage which I've heard some ward members talk about. That was fun to find haha.

Wednesday

We helped the Dolezals clean up their yard in the morning and then we proselyted a ton during the afternoon. Usually each week as you talk to people you make plans for the following week naturally but since we didn't do much the last 2 weeks because of the situation I talked about in prior emails we didn't have much already planned. That means a lot of tracting haha. That evening we had the disc golf community round and I did well. I had an insanely good drive on Hole 6 that somehow wiggled around the trees and landed right under the basket. I'll send a pic. I scored -5 and took the 5 tag (if you don't understand what that means it means at the moment I'm the 5th best player in the Quincy area who comes to Wednesday night club rounds haha) It's been really cool to see everyone warming up to us on Wednesday nights and they are beginning to ask questions about missionary life which could potentially lead to us teaching. 

Thursday

We helped Bill chop and stack wood during the morning and then after lunch we had a great lesson with Sidney. We met her at a park and the weather has been stormy and we barley escaped the storm that came right after the lesson. It started pouring about 10 minutes after the lesson. We conducted our weekly planning session and then we had basketball in the evening. Megans family (YSA who plays basketball at FRC) was in town and her dad came to hoop which was fun. We had about 15 people there.

Friday

A random lady called us on Wednesday and asked for our help so we went over to help her move a wood pile in the morning. It's awesome when random people call and we get to meet new people through service. After service we cleaned up and then attended the FRC graduation. Megan graduated so we were there to support her plus there was some other people that we knew that were there! She's heading back to Utah which lowkey kinda sucks because she's the only YSA that comes to everything (besides Bekah haha) but we're happy that she finished her time at FRC. We sat by Bekah and her mom and we scheduled a dinner with them on Wednesday! Being at the FRC graduation that day was cool because Nacogdoches graduation was the same day so even though I wasnt at that I still was at some random colleges graduation in California thinking about all my friends at home graduating haha. After the graduation we went to Sister Christensons house and she surprised us with a gift card to GroceryOutlet which we really needed to that was awesome. The rest of the day consisted of walking and street contacting. We also stopped by the AirBnB Megans family was staying at and gave her a graduation gift and read some of the Book of Mormon with them!

Saturday

We did some work in Greenville but nothing really happened. Progress in Greenville is at a standstill unfortunately. There's nowhere to walk because the fire burned everything down and the only people left there are ones who dont really care to make there life better. At least the ones I've met. We also proselyted around Quincy before dinner and then we had dinner with the Jensens (Megan's family). That was awesome that they fed us even though they are on vacation. They're a great family! Afterwards we went to the church for volleyball night.

Sunday

We attended Quincy Ward this week and as always it was enjoyable. During the afternoon we did alot more walking and street contacting around Quincy. We had dinner with the Herbert's and we had a lesson after dinner with his wife Sherry Ann. During the evening we did even more proselyting. The sun doesn't go down until 8 or after now which is great because we can walk and people will still be outside even at 8:30 now!

Lesson Reviews

Sidney

We had a fantastic lesson with Sidney reading 1 Nephi 15. It lead us to discussed what the true church would consist of. We talked about the literal scattering and gathering of Israel and how we know that its is happening right now. We discussed temples and what we do inside and why they are so important to the Restoration of the Gospel. We taught what saving ordinances are and talked about each one. She had great questions and the whole lesson was centered around how our Church shows each principle of what Christs "True Vine" church would consist of.

Sherry Ann

We read 2 Nephi 4 and discussed putting our trust in the Lord. We discussed how we can show our trust by keeping the commandments. We talked about prayer, studying the scriptures, and being baptized and confirmed are all ways we can show our trust. We testified that if we do this then blessings will be given unto us.

A big announcement was made in the mission this past week as well. Our days are gonna be switching up big time. Transfers will take place on Fridays instead of Wednesdays, weekly planning will be on Monday and our pdays are Thursdays starting the week of transfers (which means June 19). President Dunn also departs and President Saxton takes over the first week of July so its gonna be alot of change in a short period of time. It's gonna take some getting used to but that's OK. 

Also a big congrats to everyone who graduated this past Friday. It's crazy that I graduated 2 years ago already and am on the second summer of the mission. As always thanks for all the prayers and thoughts coming my way!! I love yall!

Have a great week

Elder Proctor