Trying To Figure Out What's Going On 10-26-2020

 


Zone Conference was on Wednesday which was great as always. We had some great training on teaching with power and ideas for studying the Book of Mormon which was great as I finished the Book of Mormon a couple days after and started again in the way that was shared. Afterwards they had flu shots available and then gave us KFC which good. Especially since I didn't have to cook it. We also walked into our area and had a lesson with a couple who used to be missionaries serving in the mission office and who finished just before I arrived. They were super fun.

Thursday was pretty normal until the evening where one of our wards had a social distance Trunk or Treat. There were some creative ways of delivering the candy including launching it into the air and having them catching it.

Friday we had service in the morning with the couple that used to be missionaries. We helped them with landscaping as their house was pretty new. A couple days ago we were on walk and talked to someone outside and he turned out to be the grandpa for someone we are trying to teach which was pretty awesome and we had a lesson Friday with them and got to know them better.

Sunday we had the stake reorganization meeting which we watched from home. None of our wards got moved to the other stake but we will see what our temporary arrangements are till transfers next week. There were some great testimonies shared and messages given. One great one was about forgiveness. They asked us to go and forgive someone, especially someone who probably doesn't deserve it. Doing so is hard but is Christlike as He forgives us even when we probably don't deserve it. We had a lesson with the sister and her husband of a member we know. The problem was their English wasn't very good so my companion who speaks decent Spanish had to talk the entire time as I just sat there barely knowing what they were even talking about. I was doing pretty good for the introductions and basic stuff but after that I was only faintly aware of what they were talking about. It was better than the father in law who also came who speaks zero Spanish so we had to fill him in on what happened after. From what I understood of the conversation it went pretty well but we are definitely going to get the Spanish missionaries involved.

 Miracle of the Week: Tuesday night we went on a walk. the timing was interesting because the other missionaries living with us left for a lesson at the same time as we did and since we didn't have a specific destination we followed them until they told us to the other way so we did. We ended up talking to someone who was outside their house and while we were talking to him, someone walked up to the house and joined in the conversation. The person ended up being a councilor in the mission presidency for the DC North mission which is the mission that covers where I lived in Maryland. We had a great time talking to him and it was pretty fun that he knew exactly where went to high school and things like that.

Quote of the Week: "The only time I spoke during the whole meeting was to briefly introduce myself"

Pictures (hopefully in order XP):

1. Trunk or treat

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