"We’re dead!!! We’re dead! We’re alive but were dead!"
Hey Hey Hey! So this week was crazy busy. Not because of appointments or anything like that but by the sheer number of doors we knocked this week........ it was insane! Anyway my week went a little like this!
Monday: Pretty chill day. Went to Sausalito (which is a huge touristy part of California) and hung out with the zone which was super fun. Got to know more of the missionaries in the zone and turns out I get along with them pretty well haha! That was pretty much it for Monday. We had a lesson with an investigator who isn't progressing anymore and unfortunately we may have to drop him within the next 2 weeks..... so we will see how that plays out. Elder Magee can’t stand the thought of dropping an investigator but sometimes you got to do it.... so sad....
(Riley & Hailey in Sausalito)
Tuesday: We had district meeting. The last one of the transfer...... weird....
where did this transfer go??? hahaha after district meeting we went on
exchanges with the district leader and his companion. I went with Elder Perez
who is a super cool guy. We went through the day knocking doors and we had 2
lessons...... of course I wasn't any help at all. I could understand like 30%
of what they were saying so thank you High school Spanish but I couldn't
communicate back to save my life hahah. But whatever they were talking about
the spirit was there. During the first lesson, this little boy, maybe like 2
years old. Looked up at me and smiled. So since I couldn't understand what they
were talking about and really couldn't help out anyway. I sat and played with
the little boy. hahaha that was pretty fun :D When dinner came around we went
over to the member’s house with the Hermanas. I ate.... so much..... Holy cow
it was so good too!!! hahha :D after a wonderful dinner we went and had Family
Home Evening with a less active member! Elder Perez told me it was usually in
English so I was pretty pumped that I would be able to help after being a mute
for 90% of the day. WELL we showed up and they all just started talking in Spanish.....
dangit.... so again I just sat there smiling and nodding with whatever was
said. Awkwardly laughed when everyone else laughed. This was the most difficult
game I have ever played in my life hahahah. The spirit was there so that was
good hahaha.
Wednesday: Finished up exchanges. Went to food bank like usual. After food bank we had a scheduled appointment that fell through which is sad..... so instead we just knocked doors and tried to give out Book of Mormon. Not much success unfortunately but we kept going no matter what. I trained my companion to be a Facebook missionary which was strange because I still have no clue how to be a good Facebook missionary hahahah. But I tried my best and helped him set up a Facebook. Any who!! That was pretty much it for Wednesday!
Thursday: Now Thursday was supposed to be the best day of the week. We had 3 scheduled appointments and a service project we were going to go do. Well while we were doing our morning studies EVERYTHING fell through within like a 40 min time period. Text after Text after text of people telling us that they couldn't meet. So what did we do instead. Well..... we went out with the Spanish Elders (so that we could split up 1 English and 1 Spanish missionary that way we could talk to anyone and everyone about the gospel) and went and knocked apartment complexes. I think in total that day we knocked 3 entire complexes and gave out 8 Book of Mormons. By the end of the day we were all exhausted.
Friday: Weekly planning day. After weekly planning we had about 2 set lesson appointments for the day and guess what!!! They also fell through..... hahaha all we could do at that point was laugh because this has been the most frustrating week on the planet hahahah. So I bet you can guess what we did!!!! THAT’S RIGHT WE WENT AND KNOCKED MORE DOORS!!! I have gotten good at this door knocking thing. I even have my own knocking pattern. I have figured out which part of the door you should knock to get the loudest sound. I have learned that peep holes are the worst thing on the planet. It is always awkward when you hear movement towards the door. Then suddenly the light on the other side of the peep hole is blocked by something and then no door answer. hahaha. Fantastic right hahaha Anyway I think in all we knocked 8 apartment complexes and did a small neighborhood. We actually gave out quite a few Book of Mormons I think it was 23 books. So that was pretty cool :D
Saturday: After praying extremely hard that morning that our appointments wouldn’t fall through, we got a call that we were needed for a service project. So we went. Turns out that someone needed help moving. So we helped this lady move. She was super nice but had so much stuff for one little old lady hahaha. That took us about 3 hours. After that a member took us to lunch to Chick fila. While eating all the appointments fell through again..... no joke...... I don’t know what was up this week but man oh man I just wanted to rip my hair out hahaha. So you know what we did? That’s right…. us and the Spanish missionaries went door knocking again. We actually got a return appointment for next week so that’s pretty cool. So I believe in total we knocked 3 apartment complexes and did a ton of street contacting, and gave out 26 book of Mormons! Which was super exciting. Now if all those people would give us a call we would be set hahaha. But through all the door knocking and talking to people I came to a conclusion. Elder Field wants to be a Spanish missionary hahah. The Hispanic people are so freaking nice!!! Even if they aren’t interested they will still talk to you for a bit then tell you (very nicely) that they are happy where they are at and wish us the best of luck. Whereas Californians, will sometimes just open the door sigh in disgust then slam the door or cuss you out. hahaha. Fun stuff right?? I also just want to learn a new language hahah. But hey, it’s not my decision, it’s where ever the lord needs me but it’s not unheard of a missionary having his mission language switched so who knows ;) I will be crossing my fingers hahaha but if I’m needed as an English missionary I will be the best dang English missionary I can be. hahaa :D
Sunday: I spoke in church... which was nerve wracking but I did so. My topic was my favorite book of Mormon prophet I couldn’t pick one so I chose Abindi and Alma the younger. Abinidi is the coolest :D He was taken to the king and just preached to him. Stood up for what he believed him and just owned it :D unfortunately he was put to death and didn’t get to see the fruits of his labors. His fruits being Alma one of the priests of Noah. Who then had a son named alma the younger so Abinidi's preaching helped a lot of people along the way even if he wasn’t able to see it :D And Alma the younger just has the coolest conversion stories in the Book of Mormon haha :D Anyway that was pretty much it for Sunday. WE knocked more doors because we didn’t have any appointments set. We had dinner with the Schroders which was awesome. We gave out 10 Book of Mormons that night. We also got a referral from Salt Lake City for this guy named Charles Smith. He was requesting a book of Mormon. We went over to his house and this guy was walking out of his house he saw us and we asked if he was Charles smith. He said yeah. We went into the introduction of "We are missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We received that you requested......." He cut us off because suddenly he became really excited. "OH yeah!!! I requested a book of Mormon!! I can’t meet with you right now but could we meet sometime this week." We were caught off guard we told him yeah and gave him the Book of Mormon and our number and he gave us his. We were talking for a little bit and this little kid came out of the house and said "grandpa what are you doing" He replied with "I’m getting a book of Mormon, it’s like the bible. Well actually it’s a companion to the bible" ................................................did he just....................... yeah he did. He isn’t a member but I guess he had been doing research or something because he nailed it right on the head hahaha. When we gave it to him he was super excited and said he would start reading it while he was doing laundry (which is why he couldn’t meet with us right at that minute) So that was pretty cool hahaha :D We are going to call him today to set up an appointment :D
So overall I think we knocked probably over 150 doors and gave out 67 Book of Mormons this week...... ok that was pretty cool. Honestly we were pretty discouraged this week, but reflecting on it and just kinda looking back at what we did. We had a pretty good week. We gave out a ton of Book of Mormons and met a lot of people. So I guess this week wasn’t a failure hahaha.
Anyway!! I love you lots everybody! Have a good week!! And stay safe!!! HALLOWEEN is coming up so I want all of you to go to a party for me and dress up because I can’t....... hahaha :D
Love you all!!!
-Elder Riley Field
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