Josh's Journey

I'm feeling pretty lazy today so this will be a shorter email. Some highlights were: 1. We delivered some Chick-fil-a to the district since they were low on food and couldn't buy any (due to quarentine) 2. A couple days ago for Light the World we delivered brownies and fudge to our district (as well as some mail) 3. We filmed our video on Saturday which was lots of fun. We had to pick some locks to get some things we needed but we put everything back afterwards. I will post it on Facebook when we get it edited. It was a blast to do though. 4. District Council I finally was able to get to something I had wanted to talk about the last 3 or 4 weeks. 5. We had a mission wide question and answer with Elder RONALD A RASBAND. For anyone who doesn't know who that is, he is an Apostle of Jesus Christ which is pretty dope. He answered questions we had and it was super awesome! He invited us to open the "sealed section" of the scriptures (the topical guide) and u...

We survived quarantine so far! Tuesday we had a lesson with a family who are helping another family come back to church and hopefully we will be able to start teaching their whole family. We called all of our Ward Mission Leaders and told them we would be quarantined for 2 weeks as we had been exposed to another missionary with covid. We also watched a Christmas thing from the missionaries serving at Temple Square as they celebrated the start of the Christmas season with lights and music.   Wednesday we had Zone Conference over zoom which was really good. It was the best Zone Conference we have had in a while. We talked about lots of things but probably my favorite part was at the end when we discussed all together Matthew 11:28-30. 28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is li...

  Tuesday we were able to do service and trim bushes at a house. We did it with a guy who is leaving on his mission in a week and he was really fun to chat with. Later we had interviews with President McConkie and we talked about focusing on the things we can control and how the other things will fall into place which was good to hear from someone besides me telling myself that. Wednesday we prepped for and had our Uplifting Thoughts stand next to a Spring Water Well that lots of people come by. We were able to have some good conversations with people. One lady started to cry after we shared one and she said she had been having a hard time since her husband had died recently. We also started to make plans to go caroling in December to people. Thanksgiving! In the morning we had a couple lessons with people for a short time. We had a panic when we had some change of plans last second so we ended up having to run around in a panic trying to get a knife that would work to car...

 Tuesday we were able to have in person District Council which is always much nicer than doing it over zoom. It was really nice to see people in person and talk to them. We had a panic in the evening when midlesson we discovered that someone had scheduled another appointment at the same time but on our old calendar (which we don't look at) making us double booked. We were freaking out when they hopped into the waiting room. We got it figured out though and and rescheduled them for the next day. They had a mission wide zoom call at night and told us our thanksgiving plans which I was surprised they told us this far in advance. Wednesday morning it was nice outside and we knew it was going to get colder as the day went on so we went on a walk. When we were starting I told Elder C we would make sure to talk to someone we saw with a purple shirt on. When we were almost home, we saw a lady with a purple shirt on so I tried to talk to her but she said hi and then ignored us. Darn. I di...

  Another fat thumb caused me to send the other email without anything else aside from pictures. Tuesday Morning we had District Council and talked about leaving powerful invitations which went pretty well. We weren't given a topic to talk about so I was kinda freestyling as far as what we were going to talk about but the Zone Leaders came and they said it was good. We also had half our appointments cancel and some of our appointments got deleted from the calendar so we ended up calling people and asking them when the lesson we had set up with them was which was pretty funny. People had some funny responses to us telling them what happened. Wednesday we were able to meet with the Stake President and the high councilors over missionary work which was great because one of them was new. Then we had a great council with some of the ward mission leaders. Thursday was pretty funny because while calling people not a single person I called picked up after around an hour of calling an...

  Tuesday was transfers and I got transferred to Centerville. My new companion is Elder C who is from Arizona. I am also district leader again and they gave me a 2020 Chevy Equinox that had 800 miles when I got which I have been enjoying (especially because of the snow). My one gripe with it is that it does not have seat warmers but that is very much a first world problem so I'm not complaining. We live across from a mountain spring water filled well which is really fun and we have very pure water very close. Moving in took most of the day but later we had a lesson in person with some people preparing for baptism who we later found out were not in our area since we weren't sure where our exact boundaries are. Wednesday we were invited to a Q&A with a small youth group which was a lot of fun. They had some really good questions for being 13-15 years old which I was pleasantly surprised. Overall it was really good and the spirit was very strong during parts of it...

 Halloween was super fun. We got together and had a dinner with pulled pork and ribs which was great.   I am getting a new companion tomorrow since Elder V is going home.   If you have any questions please email!