Hi everyone,
This week was pretty busy--and pretty fun too. On Tuesday we went to Allen for transfers. Its amazing how much richer that area is, I didn't realize how nice everything there is last time I was in Allen. Transfers were fun, you basically just go to a church building and congregate and talk to other missionaries in the parking lot for 2 hours! I got my new companion Elder Maisey and we stopped at Raising Canes to eat lunch. After that we went to Buc-ees (basically a huge gas station with lots of things to eat and buy, Texas is famous for it).
Wednesday we taught a lot of lessons. We also did street contacting and I have a goal to pull out the most underused scriptures when street contacting and so far it's pretty fun. Street contacting is really nice, it's fun to give out copies of the Book of Mormon. And sometimes someone in front of us that spots us will quickly sppedwalk inside. Or sometimes he or she will start walking the opposite way. It's fun to walk faster and faster ourselves and watch he or she be forced to speed up more and more to avoid talking to us. Sometimes they have no choice but to face the inevitable though, we are fast walkers hehe
On Thursday we also did some street contacting. As we were walking around an apartment complex a lady was passing through with a master key cause someone got locked out of their apartment. When she saw us she said, "You are going to have to leave. We don't allow people to loiter and walk around offering/selling things to people, but I'm sure you already knew that." She went on to say that she hates to put it that way since we aren't really selling anything, but that it still wasn't allowed. Elder Maisey explained that it wasn't tracting, and that we were just talking to anyone who was already out and about. It was good Elder Maisey did the talking cause I was trying so hard not to laugh the whole time haha--It was difficult to keep in. I know they can't do a thing to actually kick us out because we know a bunch of people in that complex so if they ever give us any trouble we could just say "We're actually stopping by our friends here who want us to stop by" and that would be the end of that. :)
We also ate dinner with the Smiths that evening and got to hear more of Brother Smiths touches with death, motorcycle chases, and shark catches. He could tell life stories nonstop 24/7
Also on Thursday we got a call from the social media specialists, which was ominous. They called us to be the Zone Reps for our zone. So we will be over the Zone page and Facebook work in our zone haha
On Friday we had some meetings where we learned what our responsibilities are, and what we need to do to get started. We had mission conference too, which was fun. We also had an awesome lesson with Amanda about patience. In the evening when we were doing Facebook at Dairy Queen I felt like I should talk to one of the employees and it turns out he's been wondering who we are and what we do! So I gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon and told him about what we teach with people and he's pretty interested. We have found a ton of new interested people this week, it's kind of crazy. Next week we will probably just rest and do nothing because honestly the work is done.
Saturday we went to De Kalb and decided to walk around and stop by some people Elder Clark and I found last week. It felt like 102⁰F according to the weather app. (Though I've always wondered what business it has telling ME what it feels like. I can decide for myself what it feels like thank you very much. 😤) It was pretty fun though, once it gets hot enough you just stop noticing it haha--we talked to a tonn of people here. Talked to a dude named D-money and another named Buggy! Talking to D-money was pretty fun, it's always funny to talk with their lingo so we fit in better.
Sunday was good too, we got 3 people to church! It also misted all morning on Sunday so it was fun to study outside after church. Overall our week was pretty good, we taught 17 non-member lessons which is more than I've done in a while.
Well that's all for now, we will leave the situation involving the needle, the pork, and the straw hat for next time.
-Elder Nielson
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