Fallon Week 7 (Mission Week 76)

 What's up everyone!

This past week was a good start to the transfer. I'm being a bit more goal focused this transfer so I'm hoping that will help us get some more work to do here. Please be praying that we can find more people to teach in our area. We really do try but this area is a bit harder in the finding category so if yall could do that it would be great! Other than that everything else is going well. Here's how my week went!

Monday

It was the last pday of the transfer and we had a lot to do. We had to drive down to Hawthorne because they are closing that area so we had to help the elders down there haul some stuff put of the apartment. This took like 3 hours out of the day. The rest of the day was pretty much hanging out with the district and signing transfer journals and stuff. We went to the high schools baseball facility and Elder Takemori pitched and I caught. The sisters pulled up too and we had them get into the batting cage and that was fun. Afterwards we went to Dairy Queen and then went scorpion hunting that night haha. We caught 8 of them using our blacklights that we got from the Sanches'.

Tuesday

Transfer day. Luckily Elder Takemori and I didn't go anywhere but the whole day was spent helping others with transfers. In the morning we did a final pancake breakfast with all the elders at our place and then sent them on their way to their new places. We helped 2 sets of missionaries out with moving in and out of their places and then we drove down to Fernley to drop Elder Burton off for the transfer van and pick up Elder McGuire. The transfer van trailer broke down in Elko so we were there the whole evening waiting for it to come. It came around 8:45 and then we headed back to Fallon. Transfer day is awesome because you get to see a lot of missionaries but at the same time sucks if people are leaving.

Wednesday

We had a lesson with Allan planned but he got sick and had to cancel. Instead we prossed around his neighborhood until we headed off to the Life Center for service. After we did that we had more service with the Sisters where we cleaned up horse poo. It doesn't sound very fun at all but its manageable whenever you doing it with people that makes the time go by haha. After dinner we spent the evening walking this one neighborhood (1 of 3 neighborhoods we have haha) and had some good conversations. At the end of the night we stopped by to see Sister Stockard and she lives with the Birds so that was cool to talk to them. What was funny though was that the way the living room was set up it was almost as if the Bird family was expecting us talking to Grandma so it was kinda weird. They were all lined up in chairs like 15 feet away from us and we were on the couch facing away from them talking to the Grandma. Probably doesn't make sense over email but it made me laugh.

Thursday

We spent the morning pulling a ton of weeds with the other missionaries in Fallon for a family in the 4th ward. They fed us Taco Bell afterwards so that's good payment haha. After that we had our weekly planning session. We had volleyball night but unfortunately only 3 smaller kids came so it wasn't as productive as I want it to be.

Friday

In the morning we helped a guy we met at the LifeCenter move a couch out of his house. After that we wanted to have a scripture read with Carol but she was sick so we had to go out and walk instead. We covered for the hermanas at the LifeCenter because they were in Reno so we cleaned the cafeteria twice in one week. We had service with Suzi in the afternoon and the basketball in the evening. We had a good turnout to basketball and were able to play the whole time so that's good.

Saturday

In the morning we worked out with one of the youth in our ward. That was pretty fun. He's actually really good at basketball and he's only a freshman so its fun hanging out with him. We had a scripture read with Liz and then we contacted some referrals we got from members on who to check up on. No one answered the door. Story of my life right now. Lunch was pretty fun because Sister Sanders and Anderson brought over some meat and we grilled hamburgers on our porch. They were actually really good. After lunch we did some graphic creating for the Facebook page and then went out to contact all the dots that we had the sisters put in our area book. This method actually worked out pretty well for us because we had some nice conversations and even found a grey dot named Scott!! First find in a while. Finding is hard in our area so that was great. After dinner we did even more walking and it turned out pretty well. We didn't have any promising things happen but just being out there was good.

Sunday

As expected we went to church. What a surprise. Missionaries going to church? Crazy right? Our meetings went well and after church we made some contacts and then experimented walking in a different way that usual. We usually walk neighborhoods but those are very limited in our area so we tried out walking down the long road through our area (sort of like a highway but just a regular county road). It worked pretty well and we are going to do this with the other 2 roads like this in our area. We stopped by the Johnsons and as always that was really fun. After dinner with the Wests we did even more walking and talking to people we see! We walked a different route than usual and that was nice to feel a difference and not walk the same roads for the 20th time haha.

Lesson Reviews

Liz

We shared Matthew 25 and discussed the parable of the Ten Virgins. We talked about being prepared for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and what that entails. She has been saying her prayers as well. She isn't really progressing at all but she loves us coming by and sharing messages.

Scott

He was a grey dot (meaning he used to be taught but isn't anymore) and we showed up and introduced ourselves. We talked about what the other missionaries discussed with him. We ended up giving him a Plan of Salvation pamphlet and will be going back next week to discuss it!

That's it for this week. Once again if yall could be praying for us to find more people as well as to help us open our mouths to EVERYONE that would be awesome. I'm trying to put in the work on my end as well so I'm hoping to be able to report more lessons this transfer. I love yall!!

Have a great week!

Elder Proctor