Fallon Week 9 (Mission Week 78)

Hey everyone!!

I hit my 18th month mark this past week!!! Holy cow time is moving fast. I have completed my sister mission and now have 6 months to go haha. 4th quarter is where the real stuff happens. I'm down to the wire and I've gotta keep pushing along to secure the win. I'll be home before I know it so I'm gonna strive to make these last 6 months worth while. I had a pretty good week. We are still struggling to have lessons and find people to teach but we have a good amount of service we do. Here's how my week went. 

Monday

For pday we played a ton of football with everyone in Fallon. We played for a good 3 hours so that was really fun. The rest of the day was pretty chill. We had a game night with Granny B that evening. We brought a member with us too but something really wierd happened. Whenever we walked in we were just going about the usual but the member literally would not move from the door. It was like she couldnt walk in. Turns out she is allergic to the smell of POPCORN! Crazy right! Granny B had popped a bunch of popcorn for us to enjoy while playing games but we brought the one person in Fallon that is allergic to the smell of popcorn haha. We made some adjustments a.d just played games on the porch because we couldnt go inside the popcorn house haha. Definitely something i wasnt expecting

Tuesday

We had the first district council of the transfer and it went well. After our meeting we went over and helped Val put together a leave rake machine for service. After that we had interviews with President. Those went well and I am pretty interested to see what happens with me this next transfer. He said that if Im not a District Leader or Zone Leader this next transfer I will be one the next. I guess we will see what happens haha. The rest of the day we contacted some people and printed off some materials for a person we are trying to teach.

Wednesday (My 18 month mark!!!!)

The morning consisted of a mission wide zoom meeting, a lesson that fell through, service at the Life Center, and a doctors appointment for Takemori. After all of that we went to our weekly service shovelling horse poo and cleaning their stable. I actually look forward to this service which is odd to say but its actually pretty fun haha. That night the Sheckler ward youth had a fundraising auction so we went to that. That night we threw a 18th month party for Elders Hovey, McGuire, and I because we all came out together and hit our 18th month marks. 4th quarter now!!

Thursday

We spent the morning proselyting and trying to contact some people but we werent able to get a hold of anyone  oh well. We conducted our weekly planning session and then went out and proselyting on Alcorn Rd. Dinner at the Ludlows was pretty fun and then we had volleyball that night. One of the youth, Lea, came in clutch and had her whole high school volleyball team pull up so that was awesome.

Friday

The morning was super fun. We helped the Anderson with a house they are flipping and we got to demolish some stuff!!! Elder Paxton and I went crazy on an old tub and crushed it to pieces haha. Some of the debris shot back at me though and cut my leg but its a battle scar now haha. It was great. After that we went out and proselyted Mclean Road and contacted some people and had another lesson fall through unfortunately. During the evening we went to the high school volleyball game because they were playing Winnemucca and one of the families I got close to has a non member daughter that plays for them so we went and watched. That was fun. Hopefully the elders in Winnemucca 2nd now will try to get the ball rolling again with them.

Saturday

Theres a couple in our area book that we contacted a while back who are 7th Day Adventists and we got to know them a bit. The husband is the elder of their congregation amd their last name is Proctor so we both go by Elder Proctor haha. Anyways they said the missionaries used to come to the church on Saturdays so we went ahead and went! It was really fun. A lot of the 7th Day Adventists loved seeing us there and remembered the other elders that used to come worship with them and were happy to see the "Mormon Boys" again haha. They had a potluck after which was great. Thats one thing I've loved about being on a mission is bringing faiths together instead of apart. I've also liked getting to know other peoples beliefs because it helps me understand my beliefs more as well. After we got done there we went headed over to the library to make posts for Facebook. After we got done there I made a Facebook video that yall should be seeing come across my page soon haha. We did some proselyting and then had dinner. Its getting dark earlier now so the time after dinner is harder to find things to do but we manage.

Sunday

Church was good and Keith came. I dont know if Ive mentioned him before but he comes to church every week but doesnt want to be taught by us and wants to learn on his own. The Huntzingers are good friends with him so thats a good church support he has. After church and lunch we went to mission prep. Im gonna try to get them to do mission prep more in the way we did it with the Grisels back a couple years ago at home because they might struggle getting people to mission prep if they keep it the way they are doing. After that we had a short lesson with Liz and talked with Granny B. We had dinner with the Andersons which was AWESOME. They are great. After dinner we ended off the night by stopping by the Boyds and chatting with them for a little bit.

Lesson Reviews

Liz

We shared a couple of verses in Matthew but it got cut short because her husband got home from a trip and she wanted to spend time with him. She did say that she doesn't believe in Satan but believes in Jesus Christ so we will address that next time.

This transfer is already halfway over so there's 3 more weeks to get things done before I potentially get moved. Thanks for all the prayers and thoughts coming my way!! I truly do appreciate all that yall do. 

I love yall! Have a good week!

Elder Proctor