Hey guys! So this week wasn’t too crazy. Not many super cool stories or experiences
I guess. This week was full of less active finding, and we haven’t been very
successful....... but none the less we have been working hard and trying not to
get discouraged hahah!
Monday night after I emailed we went to Muir Woods! It’s a red wood forest
in our area!! So sick! I took a bunch of photos. My companion and I, along with
the sisters from our ward and The Schroders (I freaking love these guys.) David and Maria Schroder have been like the
parents of the missionaries in this area hahhaha! They found out that we didn’t
have dinners this week and have offered to feed us EVERY Night this week!!!! That’s
insane!!! These guys are awesome! Plus, David is German and is kooky and funny....
ahhhh Germans...... they are the best hahaha) We did like a 2-mile hike in this
forest which was pretty stinking awesome! And it was raining!!!! I love the
rain so much!!!! It sounded so cool in the redwood forest! So cool!
Tuesday was pretty boring.... didn’t have district meeting again because of
zone conference on Thursday. Tuesday I went on exchanges with Elder Pederson.
Freaking love that kid. He is from Colorado and is a film maker! Way better
than I will ever be hahaha. He brought some of his films and showed us. He is
extremely talented hahha. super funny too. Lots of puns. Which if you know me I
love a good pun! We got along super well. And that was pretty much it for Tuesday.
We did a lot of finding. Gave out 2 book of Mormons. We haven’t had any of our
street contacts call us yet, but we are hoping hahaha :D
Wednesday was pretty chill. We did food bank again. Went and passed out food
and helped with stuff. I have become really good friends with some of the people
who run it. They are super chill and super funny. And just good people. While
we were passing out food they were playing some music over the speakers and all
of a sudden The Wombats came on. (Now I know a lot of you don’t know who they
are but they are a super cool band) Now missionary me was all composed and was
trying to tune out the music. But normal Elder Field started to mouth the words
hahaha.... I tried sooooo hard to tune it out, but I couldn’t do it
anymore. I started to sing the song
hahaaha. Anyway one of the head people who was working
there looked at me and said "Do you know who these guys are?" I told
him "Yeah, I listened to these guys all the time back home". He then freaked out and gave me a hug hahaha. He said he hadn’t known anyone who had heard
of these guys before. We laughed and talked about their music some more. I gave
him some suggestions on bands and then he said "Man your pretty cool Elder
Field. Didn’t think I would like a missionary this much" YES!!!! I’M ALL
ABOUT CHANGING PEOPLE’S OPINIONS ABOUT US!!! In the good way of course hahaha! I’m
just going to continue to be myself out here hahaha. Seemed to have gone well
this far. Even if that does mean singing to non-approved missionary songs ;)
Thursday was Zone conference. Pretty much took up the whole day. I sang
there....... yeah me and 3 other missionaries were the special musical number.
I got a call two days earlier saying that a little birdie told them I
sang...... and asked if I could sing in a quartet with another elder and two sisters.
I told them sure. We sang “In Humility, Our Savior”. I sang bass!!! hahaha It
was kind of weird singing bass. I’m so
used to singing tenor. But it was super cool. The unfortunate thing about
singing in Zone conference was that the mission president's wife was there.....
Sister Wright now knows I sing..... and I have been told that she keeps a list
of people who sing so when she needs a musical number she just calls them
up.... Hahahah well I’m on that list now. Let’s see where that goes! hahaha
Friday was more weekly planning.... Guys the transfer is half over hahah!! Where
did the time go hahahah...... That was pretty much it. Weekly planning and we
did another bridge walk. I went to mid-point this time!!! So freaking cool! Took
some photos! Just a good day.
Saturday was cool. We met with Elise. She was a lady that Elder Magee and
his last companion street contacted. We called her up and asked if she could meet
last week. She said yeah! So we met at a park with her 2 kids. One is 16 the
other is 5 or somewhere close to that age hahah. We played a little basketball
for a little bit before we started talking to them about religion haha. Elise
is a former Jehovah Witness. She left the church a while ago. And is open to
learning about other religions. Her son Chase is actually the one who sparked
the whole "Let’s look into other religions" thing. He started asking
questions about God that Elise couldn’t answer. He also started going to other
churches and started experimented with different faiths. The day after he
started asking these questions is when Elder Magee and his companion ran into
her. COINCIDENCE I THINK NOT! hahaha. We really didn’t even teach lesson. She
just asked us a bunch of questions about our faith. We answered them to the
best of our ability. And said that she would like to meet again. 2 times a week
actually hahaha So she is pretty interested haha. Chase is not AS interested
but has agreed to meet with us. So that’s cool. Elise has been through a lot
though. I’m not going to tell you guys everything because it’s something she
trusted us with. but she has been through a lot...... A LOT....... She just
opened up to us all of a sudden she told us "I don’t know why I feel like
I can tell you these things. but you guys seem like really good guys and I
already trust you for some reason. And that’s weird because it’s hard for me to
trust people" She had a bad ex-boyfriend/husband thing idk and he caused A
LOT of problems for her.... it was so sad. But she is trying her hardest to be
a good mom for her kids. I already freaking love this woman. She is super funny
and genuine. She just is a seeker of the truth. She will make an amazing Mormon
;) That was pretty much it for Saturday. We did a lot of finding again. Which
was chill. No success, but we gave out a Book of Mormon, so who knows hahaha.
PLANTING SEEDS ALL THE DAY LONG! I want to be known as the "seed
planter" can that be my nickname?? hahaha Elder Seed Planter. yeah I dig
it hahaha.
Sunday was such a long day for 2 reasons. 1, because it was fast Sunday. 2,
all of our appointments fell through...... so we just went less active finding
ALL DAY. And met some really grouchy people, but also met some really cool
people. We knocked a door to a less active member’s house. She opened the door
and looked kinda shocked. We told them we were the new missionaries in the
area. She asked us where we were from. I told her PG and my companion told her
Alpine. She looked surprised and said "My son’s favorite high school
basketball team is from Alpine." She called him over to us. Turns out Lone
Peak is his favorite team. Which just so happens to be the high school that
Elder Magee went to. She let us in and we talked a bit about high school
basketball. After a lovely conversation. She walked up to us and gave us a bag
of snicker doodles and then told us "Listen. You guys can come over whenever
you want. You can come play basketball or just hang out over here but on 1
condition. You can’t talk about the Book of Mormon or Joseph Smith in this
house." Well that caught me off guard...... "we would just argue
about it" She was the only member in her house and I guess she doesn’t
believe anymore...... which was sad...... so unfortunately we probs won’t be
going over there anytime soon. Who knows though maybe we will go over and play
some ball on P-day with her son. Maybe we can get him interested. He is a
junior in high school. But he seemed to have standoffish feelings towards us.
Idk the whole thing is just weird hahahah..... The rest of Sunday was
just spent less active finding. We gave out 2 Book of Mormons to nonmembers
though. So that’s cool. No return appointments though D: But oh well...... Seed
planting right? hahaha!
Anyway! I think that’s about it for me this week! I hope that your week was
awesome! I love you all and miss you tons!
Have a good one!
Lots of love!
-Elder Riley Field
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