Also! Apparently my weekly email didn't send last week..... I totally sent one.... don't know why it decided to die and not send..... well last week wasn't too exciting anyway hahah.
Monday. WE WENT TO THE BEACH!!
Tuesday was district meeting. After which we got to go on exchanges with the zone leaders! So I left my area to go and serve with Elder Kenworthy for the day up in Novato California. Super fun. As soon as we got to Novato. It was straight to work. We went less active finding, Tracting, went to a couple of set appointments/lessons just a way cool day. But the most amazing part didn't happen until that night. So earlier that day we went and tried to stop by a scheduled appointment with a woman named Yvon. unfortunately, she wasn't home when they had scheduled. So we went and did some more less active finding. Found a very promising potential investigator who said she would love the missionaries to come back over and share a message with her. So that’s exciting. After a pretty long day. Before we were about to go home we thought we should stop by Yvons house again. So we went by knocked on the door and she answered. Told us to come in. We sat and talked with her a little bit. Got to know her. (Now a little back round on her. The Zone leaders had just met her the day before and this was the first visit with her) She is in her early 60's and is originally from Poland. She told us about how she just wants to make a change in her life. And how all she sees in the world is evil. And Hatred. She was starting to wonder what her purpose in life was. She was religious and has a very deep belief in Jesus Christ. She practically explained the Pre-Earth life to us and how she believed that she lived with God beforehand. While talking to her I had a scripture I felt like I should share with her. So I shared 2 Nephi 2:25 and explained to her that God wants us to be happy. And how our whole purpose in life is to experience tough times, gain a body, and to be joyful. SHE LOVED IT. Kenworthy swooped in with the follow up and it was just such a spiritual moment. Now at this moment. So ahead is a conversation I had with myself while Kenworthy was teachin' and preachin' In my head I’m thinking "Holy crap we need to invite her to be baptized"
"No it’s not my investigator I will have to let Kenworthy do it"
"But what if he doesn't???"
"I will just keep sending him good vibes and hopefully he will pick up what I’m putting down"
After he was done preaching he looked at me and I kinda nodded. I’m not sure how through a nod of the head we suddenly knew what we both were thinking but however it worked it worked. He looked at her and asked her to be baptized on December 3rd! She broke down into tears and said yes!!!!! We talked to her about what it means to be baptized and how she will have to prepare for it. She said she is willing and ready and is really looking forward to church. I don't know if she actually went but hopefully she did. I haven’t seen her since then. So in the meantime I will continually pray until I see a baptismal invite from the zone leaders hahah :D Any way after leaving the apartment me and Elder Kenworthy lost it and starting dancing and freaking out. We sat in the car driving back to the apartment and he looked at me and said "You know, I have seen a lot of miracles happen on exchanges, but this one takes the cake." So much fun. Tuesday was such an awesome day :D
Wednesday we exchanged back went to food bank. Did some service. After food bank Charles Smith canceled on us again....... SAD........ but he has a good reason. His wife has cancer and they are going through Chemo.... so I can’t be mad.... he said he really does want to meet with us it’s just been pretty crazy lately. So instead of visiting Charles we did some less active finding. and had dinner. After dinner just did more less active finding.... wasn’t very successful but just another day in the life of a missionary right?
GROSS WARNING AHEAD!!
Wednesday night......... right before bed Elder Pederson was complaining about not feeling to well. He expressed that his stomach was hurting. We didn’t think much of it until suddenly he sprinted to the bathroom and threw up........................... after which he said he felt so much better and he thought that he was ok. We went to bed and I was awoken at about 1 am by him violently throwing up again....... He was not in good shape. We called the missionary nurse and she said it was probably food poisoning. So we just let him do his thing. I stayed up with him, along with Elder Meyers to take care of him. at about 2 am I thought about things that helped me when I was sick and I thought we should go get some Gatorade. So we went to Safeway just down the street and got some Gatorade for him. He sipped on it and he said it made him feel better, so we went back to sleep. Didn’t get much sleep that night....
Thursday, Elder Pederson was better by morning. but man was I exhausted. Elder Magee was up and ready to go and drug me along through the day.... I was so tired. I was told by the missionary nurse to plan in an hour nap for myself. I WAS SO HAPPY FOR THAT NAP. Elder Magee wasn’t though. He thought we could continue on but I had to tell him I was taking the nap we argued for a little but ultimately I won :D During lunch I made some chicken noodle soup that actually turned out pretty dang good :D I was proud of it hahaha. We went to the bridge on Thursday this week. We haven’t gone in like 3 weeks because of scheduling conflicts. So we went Thursday and walked the bridge. After which we went to dinner and that was our day hahah. Our lesson fell through after dinner so we did some less active hunting and after which we went to bed.
Friday, was weekly planning day. Just planned. MADE A MASSIVE PIZOOKIE! that I was extremely proud about hahaha. We had the entire district together so I thought I would do something fun hahah. We all ate it and it was so stinking good. After we finished planning we went to dinner then did some more less active finding. then back to the apartment.
ANOTHER GROSS WARNING
When we got back to the apartment, Elder Meyers wasn’t feeling so good. He asked for a blessing. We gave him one then we all went to bed. I was then awoken at about 12:30am to him sprinting to the bathroom..... He vomited.........The plague had struck the apartment........ SO Because Elder Pederson was still recovering and he needed all the sleep he could get. I took care of him all night. fetched him whatever he needed. My companion slept through it all. and when I tried to go wake him he got mad at me and fell back to sleep. So I stayed up with him till about 4 am. Slept for about an hour and a half. Woke up at 5:30 not feeling so good, so I sat there not feeling good until 6:30.
Saturday, the alarm goes off everyone gets up. Elder Meyers is feeling better. Elder Pederson is feeling great and recovered. Elder Magee finally walks up to me as I’m sitting on the floor next to the trash can, truly contemplating life. He asked me why I wasn’t getting ready. As soon as he said that I began to vomit. ELDER FIELD HAD BEEN STRUCK BY THE PLAUGE. So Elder Magee and Elder Pederson went out for the day to cover both areas I stayed at the apartment with elder Meyers to sleep and rest all day....... so I laid on the floor next to the bathroom while trying to sleep. And when I couldn’t sleep I would watch church videos. Like the movie about the restoration........ It was a rough day...... I was finally starting to feel better at about 10 pm. So I went to bed and that was that....
Sunday I woke up feeling much better. I was still tired and weak and kind of out of it, but I went to church had a wonderful day at church. I am now a part of the church choir....... I’m the only tenor hahaah! WOOHOOOOO! We went and visited all the people we usually visit and take the sacrament to on Sundays. Had a wonderful dinner with an awesome family named the Burgons in the ward. I was educated by a little girl named Lizzie about her favorite show Simmer and Shine. She explained all the characters to me and her favorite episode. hahaahha
Twas quite fun. After which we went and saw a less active member for a bit. Got to know her and had a really awesome conversation. Shared a message about the parable of the pickle. ;) if yall were at my farewell you know what that is :D and then went to bed.
But yeah so that was my week. Wasn’t to exciting, I’m feeling much better now that I have rested for a couple of days. I’m still kind of out of it but then again when am I not? ;) Any who! I love you all!!!
-Elder Riley Field
Beach and bunker photos :D really cool
And the squad chillin at the beach (minus the Spanish elders)
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