It's been a solid week. Canandaigua is awesome, it's the "promised land"! The people here are awesome and the lake is beautiful! I love it here! The members here are also very awesome. Blessed to be able to serve here.
Monday was the day we got transfer calls, I got called to be a Zone Leader Sunday so I knew I was leaving Freedom, but didn't find out where to until Monday morning! I'll be serving here in the Canandaigua Ward, my companion is Elder Hardy, he's from Arizona! We came out together! He's super cool, we are basically the same person. He loves to wakeboard and dirt bike, I think we will get along great! Haha Monday we dropped off Elder Short, and he flew home. Elder Shaw and I hung out with Rebecca most the day at mini golf and she took us to pizza, she's so awesome. I'll miss her tons! We had a couple lessons that night and had dinner with the Coopers, going to miss them tons!
Tuesday was transfer day! I got picked up in Amherst in the morning and then rode in the van with some elders to Rochester! I met my new companion, Elder Hardy! We came to the Daigua and got to work, we had a lesson with a new investigator named Ryan, we taught him the restoration and put him on date for the 16th of September! Solid. A nice couple, the Bishops fed us dinner! Afterwards we went and tried contacting a few people so I could meet them, we ended up finding Anita. She was walking her dog and we stopped her and had a good talk with her and will be meeting with her this coming week! We didn't have too much luck trying to contact investigators... it was a good first day!
Wednesday was a day full of finding because of canceled appointments. We went to the lake in the morning and talked with people at the playgrounds and stuff. We had a lady think we were preaching against racism... when we actually talked to her and told her we were Jesus people, she immediately asked what I thought about Trump. Haha Jesus is still king so it don't matter. Anyways, lots of really nice people just no one who is super interested. After lunch we went to Main Street and went street contacting. We got to talk to quite a few people! We found Kristina and Charles. Charles told us he was baptized at the end of last year but moved out of the ward and just lost contact. Kristina is a former investigator, who's interested! They are dating so we can take out 2 birds with one stone! We had dinner at our apartment, then back out pounding the pavement. Haha my shoes are trashed after this week. We did some tracting and contacting in a park. Then we had a lesson so we grabbed Kenny, a recent convert and brought him along with us. We got to the appointment and they weren't home... so we ended up taking Kenny tracting with us in his neighborhood. He's hilarious.
Thursday we had a lesson with a less active, Charles Schwab. He's super cool! Haha he's excited to be returning back to the church. We went to the lake again to do some more street contacting. Met a family from a ward in the Rochester area. Didn't have too much luck at the lake today. Talked to some good people tho. We spent the rest of the day in the northern part of our area in Farmington. Had dinner at McDonald's. Came back to Canandaigua and gave a church tour to our most progressing investigator Terra. It was so awesome and very spiritual. She was introduced to the gospel by her uncle who is part of the seventy! Super cool! We had a lesson with Becky and Connor, a mother and son. They are super awesome! We taught the restoration and they love it!
Friday was planning day! Weekly planning is always good. After weekly planning we had a lesson with Ryan, we retaught the Apostasy and the Joseph Smith story to help him understand authority. He's got it now! He's excited for the baptism! We invited him and his wife that we have never met to church on Sunday. We had district meeting, it was really Good! Elder Thorpe gave a really good training in being consecrated! We had dinner at our apartment then hit the streets again and tracted Gorham Street. Saw a younger lady pushing a stroller crying we talked with her and set up a time to meet with her on Monday. We also prayed with her! It was really cool. We contacted
Danielle Davis, she's another investigator. She's pretty flakey. But she told us at the door she wants to be baptized, so that'll be cool if it happens.
Saturday we did studies and then went to the church to do zone leader things. We had to plan out our zone conference. Then we went finding for an hour. Had lunch then cruised up to Farmington and met with a less active family the Wiedners. They are super cool and really want to come back. It was a blessing that we showed up. The mom of the couple was there and followed us out of the house and told us we had been prayed to their door. God is good. We did some contacting in a trailer park. Met a couple potentials who were down to meet but couldn't set
up a time. We met with Kristina and Charles and set expectations with them and taught them about the Book of Mormon. Did a little bit more finding, then GVB elders were down and came to dinner with us and Chuck, a returning member. After dinner we went and walked to a park and there was a bunch of people playing kick ball, they saw us and yelled over for us to come play, we made a deal with them that if we won we could share a 5 minute message about Jesus Christ. We ended up winning! Haha we shared a 5 minute restoration and there was one dude, Steven who was engaged and listening to us the whole time while we talked, all the rest were just there. Afterwards Steven came up to us and opened up and said he is really needing some help right now in his
life, we set up a time to meet with him!
Sunday was awesome! The members here are great! So we cover about 2/3 of the ward and then there are sisters that cover the rest. So it's been a lot of fun! Ryan, his wife and their daughter came to church and loved it! So awesome! They are so cool! I'm way excited for them. His wife is now going to be there when we teach him. After church we did studies then went and did some finding before dinner! Had dinner at the apartment. Then went to the south part of our area. We contacted a member, the Pits family. Turns out President Pitts is the pageant
president! Super cool. We shared a message with them. We went to Cottage City and did finding for the rest of the night. We met a guy who was so drunk he couldn't even walk, but he was jammin out to Nickel Back! You could hear it forever away. Haha it was pretty funny. Talked to a couple people who are interested that we will go back and visit! God is good and blessed us this week!
A huge part in being a member of this church is our testimonies. Let's
not hide them... bear them frequently to others with conviction! We
shouldn't be afraid for standing for the truth. God will be with you
and will fill your mouth. I love ya all! Have a good week!
Love,
Elder Judy
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