Any who I guess I should move on to the missionary stuff huh ;)
So last Monday was pretty boring. Just hung out at the church and played ball for a bit....... That was pretty much it. Tried to go see some people. No one answered. Hahahah. Woot!
Tuesday was a little more eventful. we had our usual Tuesday district meeting and then we were going to have a lesson with a new investigator we picked up but she cancelled and moved it to Saturday. Which was extremely disappointing but she was the one who made the next appointment which means she still is interested which is good :D but that was the only thing we had planned for that day. So we just went and tried to do a lot of Less active finding, tracted for a bit, asked if anyone needed service, and just tried to find people to help or to teach. Unfortunately, it was full of no's. We had one guy who was super nice though. Let us in talked to us for a bit. Said he wasn’t interested but respected what we did and thanked us for spreading the word of God. So we left. It was something I needed hahaha. But yeah. That was it for Tuesday.
Wed was pretty average. Went and did our usual foodbank service. Actually got a pretty promising contact out of it. Said she was interested in us coming over and teaching her sometime. We called her and she said she would be able to meet until the 1st of November. So hopefully that goes well. We had a lesson that night with Shayla, but she canceled on us which was sad. Had a lot of appointments fall through this week actually hahah. It was a full moon this week. And weird things happen during a full moon I have discovered hahaha. No one wanted to talk so we tried our best but with little success.
Thursday we had a pretty cool experience!!! So we had a lesson with Kelly that day. (For those who don’t know who that is or have forgotten) Kelly was an inactive member who fell away. But now she is wanting to know what she believes in and has asked us to teach her the missionary lessons and also just teach her about the book of Mormon in general. We got on the topic of the time period of the book of Mormon. She never really understood where it fit in with the bible and really didn’t understand the story of it. So I just explained to her the time period. how it started 600 years before Christ was born. How Lehi preached to the city of Jerusalem, departed into the wilderness, built a boat, sailed across the ocean, so on and so forth. After explaining the overall story and what not I looked at my companion to see if he would pick up where I left off. He just sat there staring at me. I was confused so since he didn’t pick up i just kept going with it. I talked about how Christ talks about his other sheep. And how he calls the people of the Americas when he visits his other sheep. I showed her where it kind of mentions Lehi in the bible. I also showed her where Joseph Smith was talked about IN the book of Mormon. It was like a lightbulb turned on. It just made sense to her. She started smiling and started to get really excited about the book of Mormon. She told us how excited she was to read again. She then asked me "Goodness you know so much about the book of Mormon; you must have been studying this for years." It wasn’t until that moment when i realized how much my knowledge of the book of Mormon had grown...... Not going to lie. Before the mission I could barely tell you 4 stories from the book of Mormon. I have come to have such a love for the book of Mormon. Not only because it’s the word of god but because it’s an awesome read!!! I mean look at it! It’s a story of a man and his family kicked out of the city, they then survive in the wilderness for a while. Go and Build BOATS to cross the freaking ocean and then start their own country/land/people. It then accounts all the epic wars and battles that the Nephites and the Lamanites had hahaha! Such a cool story. and of course it contains the keys to salvation so that’s pretty cool too i guess ;) Anyway I was talking to my companion and kind of asked him why he was so quite during that lesson. He told me that he has no freaking clue about the stuff I talked about. That he was learning more than Kelly was. I gave my companion this advice. "If you want to learn about the book of Mormon stories and things like that. Go read the Children’s Book of Mormon" He laughed at me. But I’m being completely serious. IF any of you just want to know more about the book of Mormon or any of the stories there in look up the children’s Book of Mormon. It’s got pictures of all the stories and people of the BoM. That’s honestly where I gained 90% of my knowledge from halakha. Was from reading the Children’s BoM. Go check it out. It’s pretty cool.
Anyway the rest of Thursday was pretty much a bust for finding again. We searched and searched and knocked and knocked, and tried to stop people on the street, tried to find service opportunities but nothing...... we were pretty much done for the day and started to walk towards the car. Before we rounded the corner, I had a strange feeling that we should continue to walk down the street for some reason. So i stopped dead in my tracks looked at my companion and said let’s keep walking. Now mind you at this point we are both pretty discouraged and exhausted from that day’s events. Not to mention it was like 20 mins until dinner time so on top of all of it we were getting hungry. He looked at me and asked why. I just told him i feel like we should. He just shrugged and so we continued to walk. We walked down the block when we came across a house on the corner of the street that had a really cool small wooden lighthouse in the front lawn. I mentioned how cool that was then kept walking. We didn’t get half way across the street before I felt the same feeling to just knock on that door. Looked at my companion told him what I felt like needed to happen. So we did. We stood there for a bit. A lady came to the door. before we said anything she looked at us then looked at the phone she was holding and said "Listen I’m on the phone right now but if you guys are in the neighborhood again sometime soon. Drop back by." We said we would love to and then we left. That was it. After we left we went back to the car. I quickly pulled out my tablet and put that house on the map and named the person we met "lighthouse lady" We will definitely be going back there sometime this week :D
Friday was chill. Just planned for the week. Did our usual bridge walk that night. Met some members on the bridge actually. A couple stopped us and asked if we were missionaries. We told them yeah. The explained how they were on vacation and that they were members. So that was cool. But other than that, there weren’t many people there that night. that was Friday.
Saturday was when the rains came............. For the past 3 days it has just been pouring rain out here. Today has been pretty sunny but it will turn to rain fast i promise you hahah. Anyway. Saturday morning is when we play basketball with people from the ward and the branch. But also investigators or just people who want to play with us really. I don’t know what I did but I think I may have channeled the spirit of Michael Jordan because I was on fire. IM HORRIBLE AT BASKETBALL!!! everyone who knows me knows I’m terrible, but something about that morning was magical. I was getting those rebounds, lay ups. I even had 2, 3 pointers.... which was shocking. Hahaha anyway that ended quickly though. I played 1 good game and then I was back to being terrible. Hahaha. Anyway! Had a fun time at basketball then I had the opportunity of organizing a blitz. A Blitz is when all the missionaries from the surrounding areas converge for 2-3 hours to just find potential investigators for 1 particular area. I was in charge of planning one for our area. So I did just that. We had about 10 missionaries who helped out with it so that was fun. While you do blitz you also go on mini exchanges with other missionaries. So I went out with one of the zone leaders Elder Kenworthy. That guy is the funniest dudes I have ever met. We had so much fun. Anyway I have an interesting experience for you guys. While me and Elder Kenworthy (I’m going to call him elder K) were out street contacting. We stopped in front of this little restaurant. A guy walked up to us and just started talking to us. He asked us if we were missionaries. We said yeah. And then he just started telling us about what he did for work. Weird huh? Oh don’t worry it gets even more strange hahah He told us how he teaches people how to fight. This guy had tattoos like crazy and i noticed that he had one of the marine corps emblem. I asked him if he was a marine. He said yeah, so of course i do what i usually do when I see a person who was in the armed forces or is a police officer. I thanked him for his service. He said no worries but no sooner after I thanked him for being a marine things started getting weird.......... He started talking about the alien movies all of a sudden. And started talking about the space marines in the movie Alien. He mentioned how all of that was real. That the aliens were real and that he was one of the space marines............................................. Wat.......................... Oh it gets better. He started talking about all his cool war stories. How he was in a helicopter and he saw a RPG heading for him. So he pulled out his desert egal 50 cal and shot it and it exploded and burned his leg off. and melted his arm down to his bone........................ Mind you he looks just fine................ he didn’t have scars or anything but i went with it. He told us how his leg bone was fake. How it was.... and I quote.... "Adimantium"..... For those who don’t know that is the metal that the comic book hero Wolverines bones are made of............ He showed us his hands and said "she these scars"(there were no scars) "That’s where my claws used to come out of. Yeah guys it’s all real. I am one of those guys who can do it" it was getting harder and harder to keep a straight face..... He also told us "You guys know the movie the dark night" We told him yes "You know the dark night, can you guess who he was" He starts pointing to himself..... so I’m trying to be nice and act all shocked right and I tell him "Woah! really?? That’s insane man" He was so proud of himself and said "Yup! You know that guy with the mask" i said "Yeah I think bane is his name" This was the part that I almost lost it....... he said "Bane??? He went by Blaine in high school"
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I had to end the conversation there. I told him that was really cool and that we had to go. We gave him a BoM and left. I rounded the corner then started to laugh so freaking hard........ Man oh man the things you see and hear on the mission. But moral of the story is I met The only survivor of the movie Alien, Batman, And Wolverine so all yall should be jealous ;)
Saturday night we had a lesson with David Meyers about How we should treat Satan how god wants us to. And if there is a difference between Adversity and Temptation. That was a super cool lesson actually. I learned a ton from studying for it but also David had some really stinking cool comments. (David is an ex-communicated member who is working his way back to the church Such a cool guy :D Love him to death) He asked us to come back on Sunday to give him a blessing. He was having a really tough time and needed a blessing. He had been sick for a while and just felt really discouraged. So he wanted us to pray and prepare for the blessing. And that was Saturday.
Sunday was super super busy. Church was awesome........ Bishop asked me to speak this week...... yay...... we had some awesome lessons in Sunday school and yeah... just a really good day. We had a lesson with Elise that day! It got cut short because of the rain...... (Yes it was still raining) She still is super interested. She is coming to church this week too!!! yay!!!! Super excited about that! We went over to give David a blessing. Now the entire morning I had been praying about it thinking about who should give the blessing and what not. I kind of felt like I should but I didn’t want to take it away from Elder Magee. He knew him longer and I want to be that good trainer and give him opportunities to do it. So when we showed up we talked for a bit. And the entire time I kept feeling like I needed to give the blessing. I kept pushing it back and told myself elder Magee needed to do it. Before it was time to give the blessing David then said "I don’t know why I feel like asking this but is there anyone who feels inspired or prompted to give the blessing" There it was. I looked at my companion and then blurted out "I have been feeling prompted to give it actually" I didn’t want to say that I just came out........ he smiled and said alright. And so we gave him a blessing. No words can describe the feelings i felt while giving that blessing. I’m not going to say much about it but..... it was insane how much love I felt for David. It was almost like heavenly father gave me a sliver of how much he loves David. And honestly I don’t even remember half the things I said in that blessing. After the blessing everyone was in tears. We hugged it out and he thanked me. After we all immediately got on our knees and thanked heavenly father. It was such a cool experience.
The rest of the day flew by. We saw a bunch of people we met a girl on the street named Malory who seemed super interested in learning about the gospel.so we got her number and we gave her ours with a BoM and left. We are going to call her today to see if we can set up an appointment. :D
Anyway! That’s pretty much it for this week. I love you all!! I hope your week was wonderful and amazing. And know that I’m thinking about all of you. Shout out to Dani (not my sister Danika, but I love you too Danika ;) ) who gave her farewell talk yesterday! I heard you did amazing and I’m so excited for you! Also shout out to Racheal Judson who is about to enter the MTC as well! And Hannah Davis who entered the MTC last week!!! I’M SO FREAKING EXCITED FOR ALL OF YOU!! Work hard and Trust in the Lord!!!
Anyway! I love hearing from all of you! it makes me so happy!!! Love yall!!!
Until next week!
-Elder Riley Field
Pictures from the week:
Elder Pederson stole my tablet
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