Better late than never right? Sorry this email is coming in so late but how's it going everyone? I hope you all had a great week last week. Here's how my week went!
Monday
We had a really fun pday. We had a zone activity and we went to a members house and played a bunch of sports in their big yard. It was really fun. After that we all got lunch and ate it at the church building and then the elders played 5on5 basketball. After we got doing that we went to the county gym and played pickup there with some youth. It was a fun day.
Tuesday
We had district council and that morning I made cookies for everyone. The Sheckler sisters made enchiladas so we had a great lunch after our meeting. I love having a district of 16 people haha. Its so much fun. After that we started exchanges with the 2nd ward elders and I went with Elder Burton! I got to go on an exchange with my son haha. It was fun reminiscing on our time in Winnemucca. We had service with Suzi where we picked up alot of tree branches and debris and made a burnpile. After that we hit up some contacts and then went to dinner. After dinner we went to the Addiction Recovery meeting with one of the people that 2nd ward is working with. It was actually a cool thing to be apart of that and see what those meetings are like. We spent some more time with Ernie walking him home from the meeting and that was really fun. He said that elders are better than sisters so we videoed it and sent it to our zone haha. The rest of the evening was pretty normal.
Wednesday
I went and worked Elder Burtons area in the morning for the rest of our exchange. That went well. We then went to the Life Center and got a free meal and then cleaned up all the tables for service. We ended exchanges after that and then Elder Takemori and I did some more proselyting. We had service where we pulled weeds that were over 6 ft tall. We had some help from the district but it was a lot. Ill send a before and after pic. After the service us and the Sheckler sisters went a d got some free ice cream with the coupon the kady we helped gave us. After that we had Sheckler ward mutual and that was great.
Thursday
In the morning we went out and tried contacting a lot of part member families but unfortunately no one answered. We legit went like 0/10 but thats ok. It happens all the time haha. That took the whole morning and then we spent the afternoon weekly planning. During weekly planning we sent a message to everyone in our area book the details of oir sport nights so hopefully that will draw more people. We had an awesome dinner with the Williams family. Brother Williams cracks me up. After that we had our volleyball night. It was actually good volleyball and we filmed us playing haha. Ill send a clip of when someone made it into the basketball lol. It was good until one of the youth hurt her knee (we werent even playing at this time she just jumped and landed wrong) so that ended the night earlier than expected. Shes ok but itll be a few weeks in a knee brace and thats all.
Friday
I went on exchanges with Elder Kroff in his area. There is really nothing to report because I didnt understand a thing the whole day because I was in the Spanish area. Hopefully the spirit was testifying because I sure wasnt haha. We did have 2 back to back door slams on us. It was the most stereotypical door slam of my mission. Knocked, introduced ourselves and in the middle of our first sentence WHAMMM door slams. Those are always a motivation to keep going. That night we had basketball and we were able to play full court and a few less active members and nonmembers came.
Saturday
It was a chill day and that wss good because i was pretty sick. We had our music rehearsal in the morning with the zone in preparation for the music devotional the next day. That took the whole morning and it was fun. After that we went and got lunch with the Sheckler and Lone Tree sisters and that was tons of fun. During the afternoon I got the unique opportunity to help move the local disc golf course to a different location so that was super fun. My inner disc golf nerd was pretty mad because the layout of the course is extremely bad but I had no choice but to follow instructions. After that we had dinner with the Huntzingers and they invited a few people over and that was a GREAT dinner. Sister Huntzinger is an amazing chef and she made me curry. Dinner there really fills us up because she makes multiple meals at once haha. Keith was one of the people there and he is a nonmember who comes to church but doesnt want to take the lessons because he wants to learn on his own. We have no choice but to respect that. He is a great guy.
Sunday
Having church at 11:30am is pretty nice because we just spend the morning relaxing and having extra studies. After church we did some contacting and we went over to the Johnsons house again. Sister Johnsons husband isn't active at all and there family doesn't really care for missionaries but she let us know that we are the coolest missionaries they have ever had haha. That was awesome. Only after 1 hour of getting to know them a couple of weeks ago after we left they made this decision lol. Hopefully we can keep developing that relationship because they have an unbaptized youth age daughter. Most of the day was spent traveling to and from Lovelock because thats where our music devotional was. Lovelock is in the same stake as Winnemucca so I invited some people from 2nd ward to come and they did! It was so awesome getting to see the Southwicks and all the Kenisons. One of the best parts of the mission is when you get to see people from past areas and reminisce on the time you spent with them. The music devotional went great and right before it started President and Sister Saxton walked in so that was a pleasant surprise. All in all it was a great day.
Lesson Reviews
Allan
He did his homework by ready Alma 32 so we discussed it with him and talked about faith. We asked him what he hopes to gain from the missionaries being over and he said he wants to really believe his beliefs. He wants to make sure that when he is baptized he is doing it because he knows it's true.
Liz
We had a nice visit with her. We got to meet her husband and set up service for next week. We shared a scripture from Romans with her and discussed what we can learn from what we read.
Allan 2
We a great lesson with Allan. He is going to read the Book of Mormon from cover to cover and we are reading it with him. He read 1 Nephi 1 and then we read 1 Nephi 2 with him. We discussed it and then invited him to read the next couple chapters and come to church but he said he would be busy and might be able to swing by for second hour. We set up a return appointment for Thursday. We are super stoked that he wants to read the whole book!
Carol
We had an interesting lesson with her again. Not really fruitful but us going over brings a spirit into her life so that's good. We read 2 Nephi 32 with her and discussed prayer. We aren't really sure where to go from now with her to be honest. Hopefully we will have a big AHA moment haha
Steven
We found Steven and he is of another faith. He said he'd be down to talk more with us but not in the moment. We gave him a Plan of Salvation pamphlet and set a time to come back.
That's pretty much everything that happened this week! I'm just trucking along and doing the work here in Fallon. Transfers are next week so the whole district is on edge because many things could change or none at all. I'm hoping I stay with Elder Takemori again and the megadistrict stays together. We shall see.
I love yall. Have a great week!
Elder Proctor
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