Josh's Journey

Tuesday morning I took a nap while Elder W patched his tires (again) and put slime in them. Later we went and played soccer for 2 hours with some people behind the church in a field. We started off with kickball until more people got there and then we switched over to soccer. We went straight from there to dinner and then from dinner we went to the setting apart of a new ward mission leader. Wednesday we had an 5.7 magnitude earthquake which was kinda weird. I was in bed and things started shaking. I was like you've got to be kidding me. Oh well. The rest of the day wasn't super exciting. I made some curry mac and cheese which was excellent Thursday we had district council and talked about what we can be doing while being quarantined. Then we went shopping since they announced we couldn't eat at people's houses anymore. Later we had a lesson with J and talked about the Word of Wisdom. Friday we went and got props and filmed our trailer for our Book of Mo...

This week was a disaster as far as me writing in my journal so i'm going off of what I remember for the most part (sorry). Tuesday we had Zone Conference. It was really good. We talked a lot about talking to everyone as well as how to improve our teaching skills. Later, we had a lesson with J where after 4 separate invitations to be baptized, she finally accepted!  Wednesday we did service with T. We helped put trim on a book shelf with a nail gun as well as some other stuff. We visited some people and some lady was not happy to see us. It was pretty funny. After dinner we went to visit someone and he came out with his dad and his dad was like my son is too embarrassed to tell you but he doesn't want to be taught. We were like why didn't you tell us that earlier so we don't keep coming by? Oh well. Thursday Elder K came to my area for exchanges and we had a blast. That being said, the only person that was home that we visited was literally the last person ...

Tuesday we had a follow up training meeting where we talked about missionary life and how to have a good relationship with your companion. We took a generations picture with my dad, me and my son which was awesome (see below). Wednesday we visited V and had a good chat. She has been reading her Book of Mormon but she said that she is getting her wisdom teeth taken out. Later we had a lesson with C but we had a little time beforehand so we went and visited Misty and had a great visit with her. We talked about about her priesthood blessing. We helped her recognize that she had felt the spirit after it. We went over to C's and when we got there they already had finished the lesson. Apparently we had wrote the time wrong. If we hadn't wrote the time wrong, we wouldn't have talked to M. Then since we missed C lesson we went and visited W and had an awesome lesson. We shared a video with Elder Holland bearing his testimony. Then we invited her to pray about what we had ...

When you train a new missionary on you mission, that new missionary is called your son.  On Tuesday we were somewhat alive again. We went over and had a lesson with C where we talked about why we are here, where we came from before we were born, and where we go after we die. At the end of the lesson she told us that she wanted to be baptized but not right now and that she didn't want to come to church which was sad. After dinner, we went to have a lesson but the kid's dad said they can't be taught yet :( so the mom is going to get the grandparents to talk to him. Then we had a super intense lesson with J. She is ready to be baptized and she knows it but she is scared so we invited her to pray and come back next week with a date for baptism. Then we went back to our apartment and packed. Wednesday was transfers so we packed up Elder S stuff and then I went to them mission office to find out who my new companion and trainee will be. One of the fun things about that...

This week was somewhat of a disaster. My companion was sick most of the week and I got sick at the end. If I skip a day, assume we stayed inside the entire day. Tuesday we stayed in all day beside a lesson with J where we talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. She was having a bad day but by the end, we got her to smile which was good. Thursday was District Council so I called into it. I couldn't understand much but they did talk about the importance of teaching from the Scriptures and Preach My Gospel. In the evening I went on exchanges with Elder K to go teach C. We talked about the 10 commandments. The funny part was at the end, her mom was like from now on, I want you to lead the lessons from now on and she said my companion talked too much and didn't teach enough. I thought that was one of the funniest things I had ever heard. Friday was my 6 month mark of my mission. We celebrated that by attempting to burn a tie and only partially succeeded. One of th...

I am going to hit my 6 month mark on Friday the 21st. It's kinda crazy to think that I have been out for half a year. It definitely feels nowhere close to that. Tuesday Elder S had a doctors appointment so I was with Elder C and U in a trio for the morning. We went to a lesson and when we got there the lady that we were supposed to teach told us she got the flu (just like everyone else in Utah) so we went over to a church building and studied together. After Elder S got back, we had a lesson with C and when we got there, she read us an 8 page summary of what she had read in the Book of Mormon (she is 12). I was so shocked and impressed I didn't know what to say or do. After dinner, we had a lesson with J. She had her teeth worked on so we watched Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration with her and her friends and then talked about it. Her friend T opened up and talked about some experiences she had which was awesome because she had been quiet and not super participa...