Monday was a bittersweet day, had to help Elder Hardy pack up... it was tough to say goodbye to him! We had a great 3 months together full of laughs and hard work. We saw lots of cool things together. Monday night was full of lessons.
Tuesday I dropped Elder Hardy off at the mission office so he could get to Buffalo, while I waited for my temporary companion Elder Mills I went out with the zone leaders and did some door knocking in their area for a couple hours. It was a blast. Elder Mills came to Canandaigua for the day. We saw lots of miracles. We met Cody, he just got out of jail and is a recovering addict and really wants God's help. We were able to teach him about the Atonement and he loved it! We did some door knocking, had dinner with Chris and ended the night knocking some doors, it was freezing cold. The cops got called again as well! So much opposition in the work right now!! It is nuts. Haha
Wednesday was the day I got to pick up my trainee! His name is Elder Churchill! He’s from Provo, Utah. He’s also a Spanish speaker.... kinda weird that they are having me train him but god has a plan! We left the mission office and got right to work and through out all that day we were constantly finding if we saw someone on the side of the road we would pull over and run after them and share the gospel with them! It’s awesome! LOVE being a missionary! Elder Churchill was able to invite 4 people to be baptized that day and one accepted a date! It was great! Miracles! I also had the opportunity to give another baptismal interview. Jake was his name and holy cow was he prepared to be dunked. It was an amazing privilege. I love giving baptismal interviews.
Thursday we had district meeting, I'm the district leader and gave a training on helping our investigators overcome conflicts and resolving them as well. it was great! It’s fun being a district leader! I have a huge district now, 4 elders and 5 sisters. It’s awesome! And they are all really hard working and great! After district meeting we had a couple lessons. It was a good day.
Friday was Elder Churchill's first taste of weekly planning. Haha Elder Churchill has been struggling with some depression issues while we plan and study so we try to do it fast so we can get out and forget ourselves and work. Today it was freezing cold and we didn't have any appointments and I was upset because i didn't want to overwhelm the new guy... but God provided so many people to be placed in our path! It was awesome. Building up the teaching pool!
Saturday we had all of our return appointments and about half of them went through. It was great. We saw lots of miracles. We helped a lady move this huge TV from their apartment to their garage and we were able to share the message of the restoration. God is great to us.
Sunday we had Amanda Steele to church! She’s doing really well and progressing nicely. Elder Churchill got a little overwhelmed at church and had a couple members really worried about him because he just shut down... I was really nervous about what happened and we were able to talk it out afterwards. We did some finding right after church and talked to some great people. Came back and did studies and then went back out and found some people before dinner! Colleen canceled our appointment but she only smoked 2 cigarettes today!!! That’s huge for her! Keep her in your prayers. We are really pushing to get her interview for baptism this week! We had a lesson with Chris, and really helped her out. She’s been struggling lately. As we were walking back to our car we decided to contact at a gas station really quick and try to get someone new. We ended up talking to Micheal. He said the last 4 years of his life have been miserable, he works with a lot of Mormons from Utah and had nothing but good things to say, he took a copy of the Book of Mormon and said he will take us out to lunch... HUGE miracle!
“Jospeh Smith, the prophet and seer of the lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it....”
~ D&C 135:3
Love,
Elder Judy
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