Can't believe another week has come and gone... crazy how fast time is going. This week was a good one, lots of canceled appointments leaving us to knocking lots of doors! It's the best, love missionary work.
Monday was a good day, since we struggle for things to do here on p-days we cracked out the ol' TV from the library and got a whole bunch of church movies and watched movies all day long. It was great. Pretty boring... haha it's a different experience being in the southern tier. Monday night we finally made contact with the Cooper family,we lost contact with them for a little bit but now we are being fed by them twice a week! They are awesome and a cute little family, they're less active but show a desire to come back. Super exciting! We also had a lesson with Tyrone, we taught him the Sabbath Day and the rest of the 10 commandments.
Tuesday was pretty laid back, we did lots of service. The orchard
park elders were closing down there apartment and need help, so my
district came up and helped them pack everything out. Then we came
home and changed and went to a lesson with a lady we met at subway
last week, her name is sarah. We got there and she had her bible
sitting on her porch and so we thought it would be a really good
lesson, well she set us up... she is a reborn baptist and wanted to
save our souls... she brought up a couple different things about
jospeh smith, we threw it back into her face. Haha i was very mad and
trying very hard to keep my cool... it was very hard while i had
someone yelling at me for being part of a"colt" and not believing in
the right Jesus. She also brought up the fall of Adam and Eve and how
we believe it was a good thing, she yelled at us for that and called
us sinners, she looked at her 8 month old baby, pointed at him and
yelled "he is a sinner!" It broke my heart.... we tried explaining
how babies aren't accountable for there actions and there a live in
Christ but she couldn't rasp the concept. It made me grateful for the
knowledge that i do have. By the end we had giving things from the
Bible that support us and she couldn't figure out she started
literally shaking asking if she could pray for our souls... it was a
very interesting experience. a less active lady, sister tevis called
and asked if we could help her move a cabinet into her trailer. We
helped her out then had dinner and finished the night off with some
tracting.
Wednesday we had branch correlation in the morning, really
productive. We had our weekly scripture study with Dennis. I planned
my training for district meeting, president had sent out a talk by tad
r.callister talking about being a consecrated missionary and thats
what i gave my training on. We tracted church street, we met Tiffany.
We gave her a Book of Mormon and she invited us back! We had a lesson
with sister tevis, we taught about the Book of Mormon. We had dinner,
then went and tried contacting a couple people in Sardinia, no one
answered so we did some tracting and met Ken! He's an older fellow but
seems interested in the gospel, took a Book of Mormon and a return
appointment.
Thursday was my MOMMMA's birthday! happy birthday mom!❤️ we had
dsitrict meeting in arcade this week, went really well. my training i
felt was powerful and motivated the other Elders. specailly my comp,
he is working harder since today and it has been cool to see. we did a
littlebit of tracting on park street then had a lesson with Katie!
shes so awesome, we taught her the law of tithing and she actually
really loved it. we talked abou the sites and planned a trip for the
next day with her, we were so excited then she texted us later that
day saying she got roped into other things and wouldnt be able to make
it... sad but we will get her there soon! we dropped by the buziak
family, and there are super awesome! john isnt a member but just got
diagnosed with pancraictic cancer... sowe droppedy to seehow his wife
was doing and she told us she wants to get templeready and receive her
patriachal blessing!! it was awesome! itl becool to see her gothrough
all the steps,so excited! we saw Tyrone and taught hmabout president
Monson, showed him some videos and talks given by him.
Friday was agood day! we had a great weeekly planning seesion. best
one while ive been here in this area! i have been working reallyhardon
becoming a conscrated missionary every since presidnt sent the talk
out, and its been cool to see the little changes in me and the desires
that ive devloped just through prayer, working hard, and being
obedeint. god is good. we saw Tiffany today, the lady we met earlier
in the week, we taught her and her 2 kids the restoration. they seemd
to have liked it. we will see if they want to continue the lessons! we
brought Dennis with us to see Donna Eccles and we taught her the
restoration,and invited her to church! she took us and showed us her
baby goats. we went to a retirement party, for an investigator we are
teaching. we ended the night seeing an investigator named Becky. we
thought she was very promising but shetold us shedidnt want to
convert...we were very sad... we set our boundiers and told her our
purpose and basically dropped her.
saturday was planned out to be a super good day! we had 6 lessons all
planned and set in stone and only 2 went through for the whole day...
sowe ended up doing a lot of tracting, no such luck. we saw Amanda,
and the tarantinos. it was a slow day...
sunday was great day! Donna came to church! she loved it! Katie had a
graduation party and Tyrone had to work.... we did somefinding in the
afternoon and tracted into this really weird guy who is a big jesus
fan. and he had a tree in his front yard and a coon was just chillin
and it was his pet and he showed us how he could feed it toca bell
burrittos. it was funny. we had a lesson with the leffler family, and
the miess family! it went well. the freedom branch is awesome.
i hope you al have a great week! the church is so true, dont let
anyone tell you different. love you all!
Elder Blake Judy
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