This week was good. Busy, but really good :D I went on exchanges with Elder Pederson (district leader) on Tuesday and Thanksgiving on Thursday which was really freaking fun hahaha :D
Any who Monday we didn’t do much except email home and just hang out as a district all day. I have noticed how tight of a family we have become as a district :D Everyone is super fun and super chill but are all really hard working. But when we get together we know how to have fun :D I love my district!!
Tuesday was exchanges with Elder Pederson. So I was in the Spanish area..... Man I hate/love exchanges with Spanish missionaries. I love them because I get to go and meet polite Spanish people instead of angry white ones ;) I also love them because I really don’t have to prepare much. I just go and sit in the lesson and distract the children if necessary. I hate them because I have no freaking clue what is going on 90% of the time. I don’t understand Spanish very well which is sad.... I should have paid better attention in my 2 years of Spanish in High school haha or should i say JAJAJA........ I’m sorry...... that was a lame joke......... I couldn't resist though....... But other than not understanding what was being said (and I’m pretty sure at one point my companion and them were talking about me because they kept looking at me and laughing....... awkward....) I still had a grand old time kickin' it in the Spanish Area :D I did make a new best friend though. At dinner this little girl who I think is maybe 2 or 3 years old who I played catch with after dinner. She is probably the most adorable little girl I have ever met hahahah. She would inform me if I was doing something wrong and laugh if I did it wrong again..... I had a little too much fun haha
Wednesday was just the good ol' food bank service we do every week! Except this one was different because Thanksgiving was the next day. so we gave them a box with ingredients to make a good thanksgiving meal. It wasn't anything special or fancy just enough for a 1-person thanksgiving meal. But it was cool. I got to put my Warehouse experience to the test because I was the one restocking the boxes as they ran out. I also was the one moving pallets hahah. Made me feel like home :D it was fun. Had a lovely Pizza dinner with the Schroeders, shared a message and then headed out to do that good missionary work. Knocked some doors, nothing, made some calls, nothing, went over to an investigators house for an appointment, she wasn't home. Kind of a rough night but we stayed strong and continued to hunt for the people God has prepared..... They are out there I know it..... somewhere hahahah We decided to go visit one more less active and we knocked on the door and she let us in. Turns out her husband is a non-member too!! Now whether he is interested or not that is yet to be determined. We got to know them and found out that Dan (the husband) works for a special effects company that works for Lucas films. So he does the special effects for Star Wars and other movies like that. So that’s pretty stinking awesome! Me, Dan, and Bethanne (the wife who is a less active member) Nerded/geeked out for a bit while elder Magee sat and just stared at us like we were speaking a different language hahaha. We shared a short gospel message with them and asked if we could come over again and share more of a lesson with them. They said sure and we scheduled a time for early December. (they were going out of town for thanksgiving otherwise they would have met earlier) I’m pretty pumped about going and seeing them again :D
Thursday was Thanksgiving!!! It was awesome. I had a lot of time to reflect all the things I was thankful for. So here is the list I came up with -
Music
The Scriptures
Christ
The Priesthood
My Patriarchal Blessing
Family
Concerts with My Aunt Annie
Video Games with my Dad
Dorky things I do with my Sister Danika
Afternoon Ellen Episodes with my Mom
Being the Oldest in my family, that way I can see the little ones grow up
The atonement
All my extended family both blood and not (i.e. Smiths, Walkers, etc.)
My Friends
The chance to serve a mission
The Gospel
My Theatre and Choir classes and Teachers.
Technology (Even though I really hate smartphones now... Ask me about it)
Life
Light
Hard trials Even though they REALLY suck
Comfy pants
TREES
Beaches
Pretty much all of Nature
That’s just a short version of the list I came up with earlier. Thanksgiving was awesome. Even though it was tough being away from the family, I know I’m in the right place at the right time doing the right thing. We had a really nice family The Schroeders (I mention them a lot ;) ) had us over for dinner. They had some of their family over and we just were adopted right in. It was nice. That night we set up for Christmas hahahah hopefully the Pictures will send this week....... they didn't last week.... LAME
Friday we had a really cool experience. After the usual weekly planning we went to go see an investigator who has a baptismal date. (we did not extend this baptismal date. Let me explain. Whilst I was sick that one week, the sisters got a referral about some lady that they needed to go see IMMEDIATELY, so being the diligent missionaries they are they didn't think twice and went and saw her. After talking for a little bit this lady was expressing deep desires to get baptized. She they extended a baptismal date for December 17th she accepted and there was joy and happiness. Well this lady then proceeded to tell them that she meets with another set of missionaries. The sisters realize that they extended a baptismal invite to one our investigators hahaha. It’s all good. Celeste wanted to talk to missionaries so she just referred herself again. So the referral just went to the sisters instead of us. She had our phone number but lost it hahaha. Oh well. She has a baptismal date now! hahaha hopefully she can start keeping commitments...... I’m praying she will so now she has become a combined investigator between us so it’s fun) We got to her house and she was asleep her son told us to come back tomorrow. So with an hour left in the night before going home. We decided to go to down town San Rafael. They were having a carnival of some sorts, so we all thought it was a good idea to go contacting. We went and as soon as we parked we all got a pretty good feeling about being there. So we were walking and this guy just looked at us for a bit smiled and walked up to us and started talking to us. We talked about what we were doing as missionaries, what that entails, we got to know him a little bit, he is just the nicest dude ever. His name is Will. We talked to him about the Christmas initiative :D:D:D:D:D (Which if you guys don't know what that is go look up #LightTheWorld right now!) He loved it! we even gave him a Book of Mormon. He mentions he loves reading and will definitely take a look at it! We gave him our phone number so hopefully he will call us. Don't know if he will but there is still a chance. The reason he stopped to talk to us was because, and I quote "You guys just seem different, y’all were putting off good vibes so I had to come talk to you. I’m glad I did though! You guys are super nice! And I loved talking to you!" After that you can imagine we were feeling awesome! So we went and tried to talk to some more people.......... no success what so ever...... I was kind of feeling a little discouraged but afterwards we were discussing how the night was. Even though we only talked to 1 person that night. We all thought the night was a huge success. That just goes to show that we are just out here to find those individuals. Not groups of people. But individuals who would benefit from the gospel. Just thought that was really cool :D
The rest of the weekend wasn't filled with anything exciting so I will spare you the details but I don't know about you guys, but I’m so freaking excited for Christmas!!! The tree is set up and we are only getting more and more decorations hahaha!
Oh I guess there is one other thing. On Saturday I got something in the mail. It was a small envelope addressed to me from Dorcus Woodward. (My Friend Ian's mom) I opened it up and about freaking cried. In this envelop was a paper Christmas tree. With small photos of all my friends on their missions, and their favorite scriptures on the photo as ornaments. With a really amazing quote. I will send a photo (I added the photo of Jesus at the top of the tree. Hopefully you can zoom in on it and read quote) So I guess this is a shout out to all of my friends who are on missions right now, thank you all so much for the example you have put forth to me. And thank you for sticking with me through high school. I can’t wait to hear what miracles you all performed while on your missions. I love you all!! And thank you sister Woodward so much for this gift. It really means a lot to me. Thank you!
Anyway! I love you all and miss you like crazy! hopefully you all had a good week!
Until next week!
-Elder Riley Field
Christmas photos!!!!!!
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