JUST SO MY MOM DOESN’T FREAK OUT!!! THE MISSING TABLET IN THE SUBJECT LINE IS NOT MINE!
So Monday was Halloween!!!! And the last day of the transfer. We hung out with the zone that day. Signed journals, said goodbyes, and just kinda hung out for a while it was super fun :) Now because it was Halloween we had to be in by 5pm which is lame but we found out that if you were with a member then you could stay out until our usual 9pm. And the Schroeders invited us over so we went and hung out with them. So it was us the sisters and the Spanish elders who all came and chilled with them. Oh man it was so much fun. We ate candy and played heads up haha :) I can't tell you how much I love that came. It was so funny!!!! Anyway I had a wonderful Halloween! Unfortunately, no opportunity arose for me to carve a pumpkin....... so I will have to wait until next year haha.
Wednesday we did our usual food bank thing had dinner and pretty much ended the day. Lame huh haha but something happened during food bank that I wasn't expecting. I got a call mid food bank from Elder Taylor. (My last companion) and told me he had good news and bad news. I asked him what the good news was. You guys remember Miriam and Sangato? The Samoan family I was teaching in Vallejo! Well they got baptized!!!! Yay!!! I was so happy for them. The bad news was pretty rough to take actually............ there was a less active lady we used to work with. Her name was Shirley McLain. I talked about her a lot in previous emails. She is super cool and we got along really well. We used to go over every week and visit her and talk with her. She is this super grumpy grandma hahaha She wanted to go to the temple for her first time. I think she is in her late 70's but she is way awesome....... Shirley passed away 2 weeks ago......... this was rough to hear....... just keep her family in your prayers guys. Her grandson John especially. He is pretty busted up about it. She was his only anchor in this life. Just pray for him. Please.
Thursday was a super long day........ We were supposed to have a lesson with Elise that morning but she never answered....... so that fell through sadly. So we went and tracted again hahaha. It was so long because everything we planned just didn’t work. Either the lessons we planned fell through or the times we were just going to go see people fell through as well....... so we tried our best to occupy our time well and effectively. Pretty long day.. We had a lesson with Ken that night. We felt like we should watch Meet the Mormons which was strange but we did. We watched the first half with him and challenged him to watch the second half.
Friday we had our first district meeting with all the new people in the district. It was super fun and everyone who is in the district is like super chill and fun to talk to. After the meeting we all ate lunch together. One of the Hermanas is huge into musicals as well!! So we sat and talked about theatre and musicals for a while. her name is Hermana Foster. She is super funny and we clicked pretty well. Overall the morning was super fun and chill. We then did some awesome weekly planning and then had a pretty lengthy meeting with the sisters. We talked about all the ways to help the ward and to bring the ward closer together. IT WAS SUCH AN AWESOME MEETING!!! We now have a direction to direct our efforts. We have a lot of good ideas about utilize the youth and the YSA aged people. We are going to do a bunch of missionary sponsored activities so hopefully all that goes well. I’m praying that we will see some progress with the ward :D Woot That night we set up for the fall harvest festival which was super fun we got a bunch of hay bales from a pumpkin patch hahaha the lady who said we could take them didn't unlock the gate so we had to jump the gate then lift soggy damp hay bales over the fence and into the bed of a truck..... holy cow those things were so stinking heavy. Emphasis on "stinking" but that’s what they wanted hahaha so we got them in. and made it look all........ "Harvesty" I guess hahaah!
Saturday was the fall harvest festival! it was super fun got some awesome pictures...... which I don’t have this week because missionaries have yet to give them to me.......... rage..... oh well though.....but it was a lot of fun! but another strange thing happened. At the end of the party. we were cleaning up and Elder Magee noticed that his tablet was missing. Thinking that he misplaced it we searched the Church looking for it and couldn't find it. We didn't think much about it because we were pretty sure it was in the building. So we left to dump the hay bales that we retrieved the previous night. After we dumped the bales we came back to the church and did some more planning with the sisters for some cool things we are going to be doing the future and we noticed we still couldn't find his tablet. We did another full sweep of the church building and couldn’t find it again. We had to get to a lesson so we left and taught an awesome lesson to Elise
I’m going to move away from the subject of the tablet for a little bit to tell you about the lesson with Elise.
The lesson was awesome!!! but at first it wasn't. She was 45 mins late...... yikes.... hahaha when she finally showed she had her and her sons chase and Corbin. Chase is 15-16 years old. Loves basketball and is just a super cool kid. Corbin is 4 years old and is the rowdiest/insane kid you will ever meet. Whenever Corbin is involved the lesson will always go super long. It’s hard to teach when Corbin is just bouncing off the walls. Luckily we were at a park so he could run around and stuff. We gave a sort little recap on the plan of salvation for Chase and Elise. They both really like it a lot. Then we got to teach them the restoration. We taught about Christ's earthy ministry and was about to get to Joseph Smith when Corbin starting acting all rowdy again. So at this time I had the idea to tell it like a story. So I sat on the ground and had Corbin sit in front of me. With Elise and Chase still sitting and listening. And I told the story of Joseph Smith and the First vision. It was super cool and I felt the spirit pretty strongly. After that we taught about how the Book of Mormon came about and how Joseph Smith was a prophet. They seemed super receptive about it. We gave them both a Book of Mormon and asked them to read and pray if what we were saying was true and that if the Book of Mormon was true. They said they would. Afterwards I felt like I should ask them about baptism, not to commit them to a date, but to get the thought in their minds. We asked them that "If they were to come to a knowledge that all of this was true, the plan of salvation, Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. Would you be baptized by someone holding the proper priesthood authority?" Elise immediately answered yes that if it was all true she would love to be. Chase took a little time to answer because he is still so awkward around us but he eventually said yes he would be! IT was such a good lesson. Probably the best we have had with them. Now the lesson had already gone on for almost 2 hours now......... WAY TO LONG for a lesson. But for some reason I felt like we needed to stay longer and play some basketball with Chase. My inner rule following self was telling me it’s time to move on but me and Magee felt like we needed to shoot some hoops with chase. So we did. Played some ball and had a blast with Chase and his mom and little brother. He finally truly opened up to us. I think we finally broke the barrier of "Missionary" Yes we are missionaries but we are people too. Who like to have fun. He started joking with us and we invited him out to basketball every Saturday morning at the church. He said he would love to!!! So in total I think we spent like 3.5 hours with them.... which is way too long but it was totally needed.... so I don’t feel bad hahaha.
Anyway back to the tablet. After the lesson we went to dinner and then back to the church to do some more looking. I had the idea to log onto his email over the computer. And in your email settings you can see what devices you have logged your email onto. So we checked and it was there. It said it synced his email and things 2 hours after the Festival. Which means it had Wi-Fi. The only places he gets Wi-Fi is at the church or at the Schroeder’s. SO!!! IT HAS TO BE AT THE CHURCH!! But we can’t find it!!!! I'ts freaking gone!!! We have no clue where it is. And we still don’t know where it is. It’s still missing...... which is sad....... so I will be praying extra hard for that.......
Sunday was good. Just a usual busy Sunday. Saw a couple of people then we went to a zone meet 'n' greet which was way fun!!! Got to know the new zone and it was super chill and fun. So I have high hopes for the transfer...... I’m still with Elder Magee and things are getting better. I think I have finally figured out how to talk and work with him. I have to get on his level. And it bugs the crap out of me BUT this is the best way so I will just continue to work with him. so hopefully all goes well.
I hope that all of you wonderful people have an amazing week!! Know that I love you and all!!
Until next week!!
-Elder Riley Field
p.s. sorry my email is so stinking long again...... I need to cool it hahahah
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