Monday, December 30, 2013

16 October 2013

So this week was interesting. The reason I didnt write on Monday is because transfers make P-day on Wednesday for some reason.....I didnt get transfered. I'm still on a bike...Grrrr hate it. I get to keep Elder Southam which is good. So Sunday night me and Elder Strong stayed up too late talking but the conversation turned into him telling me about all the success he has had on his mission so far. That really got me thinking about my investigators. So I woke up on Monday morning and told Elder Southam that we needed to drop all of our investigators. So we did. They just weren't Progressing or keeping commitments... so this week we will do some hardcore finding. It wont be easy but it needs to be done. There was a night last week when Elder Southam and I didnt have a dinner appointment so we went to a restaurant and we had just barely sat down when this lady came over and handed me a 20 dollar bill. So we ate dinner and when the check came this old guy came up to us and said "Boy's how bout' you hand me them checks." so yeah thats called faith dining haha so its like we got paid to eat dinner. Ummmmm OH so we were calling one of our investigators ( to set up a time to drop him) but his baby sitter answered the phone so we asked if there was anything we could do for her and she said "you can teach me about your church!" so that was awesome we went over and taught her and her son and just like that we have two new investigators. That, to me, was just reassurance that we are doing the right thing by dropping our investigators so we can focus on finding.
hmmm... oh yesterday my companion got bitten in the face by a dog. It came over to me and let me pet it but then is spazzed out and tried to bite me... luckily it was tethered.... so I just jumped back a few feet but then it walked up to elder Southam (I guess he didnt see what had happened) and the same thing happened but he got bitten in the face. It drew blood. but he is okay.... geez that boy is accident prone.
So its owner (who is a member that we were helping split wood) grabbed it by the nose and yelled at it for like 12 minutes haha I thought of matt. "I bought you a new toy! AND YOU DESTROYED IT?!?!" haha good stuff ......good stuff....
How are things? I like it here. I want more letters..... MORE ummm Matt write me a letter so that I can have your address..knuckle head. Hmmm Alexa is your baby a boy....hope not think girl thoughts. How is work parents ... good?  I like to make eggs for breakfast. <---random. Hey Courtney you got my letter? Birthday. yeah that one WRITE ME BACK. So College friends.... Write letters to me or I'll smite you with a Rod. hmmmmm How is school for those who go to school? Missionary work beats home work.
Observation of the week: Although this doesn't apply to any of you. I have come to the realization that every area goes through a baptism stage and a finding stage. It took me a whole transfer to realize that I needed to focus more on finding than trying to baptize people who weren't progressing. But hey now I know! And I will be expecting baptisms soon. The field is ripe. #ThrustInThatSickle

-Elder Jones

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