Friends, Family, Countrymen, lend me your emails, and let me
spin a tale about this week and the craziness there of.
Hey guys! So this week was a week of service :D Holy cow we
did a lot of service...... or what we thought was a lot of service. We did a
total of 12.5 hours of service. Now that does sound like a lot of service but
back in Vallejo we did 15+ hours of service haha. It was awesome! But here in San
Rafael it’s hard to find some good service opportunities. But we did some good
stuff none the less :D
Last P-Day we went to Kirby Cove which is a beach right next
to the golden gate bridge which was pretty stinking awesome :D I have some
pictures of that. After all the p-day festivities and just hanging out with the
district we had an awesome lesson/dinner with a recent convert and his
non-member family :D IT WAS SO GOOD. 1. It was such a fancy dinner that I felt
too poor to even look at the meal, or even be in their house for that matter.
2. It was so awkward at first because they were all so hesitant on how we would
like interact with them hahah. Finally, after we started eating and the
conversation got going, it was interesting to watch them all relax. 3. Broccoli
was one of the sides...... I had to take it...... Now for those who know me you
know I do NOT like Broccoli. And it’s not because I haven’t had it before. Just
for some reason I have never liked it. Not in soup, not raw, no steamed, not
cooked into things, I just don’t like it hahaha. So here I was sitting staring
at this small heap of broccoli on my plate, either I leave it on the plate and
possibly offend this non-member family we could potentially teach or just suck
it up and eat it. So after a lot of internal prayer, I ate it. IT’S A FREAKING
CHRISTMAS MIRACLE GUYS BECAUSE GUESS WHAT??????? ELDER FIELD LIKE BROCCOLI
NOW?!?!?! I don’t know what happened but as soon as I tasted it apparently I really
liked it. My companion was looking at me like I was an alien hahah he knows I don’t
like it but I ate 2 helpings of it hahaha. I have noticed me liking different
foods on the mission haha. Asparagus for example. Holy cow I freaking love that
stuff hahaha. Anyway that’s enough of that hahaha The dinner was awesome and we
were able to leave them with the message of #LightTheWorld and they really
liked it :D and invited us over again sometime in the near future :D
Tuesday was cool :D, we went and had an awesome district
meeting after which we went and Chalked 4th street for #LightTheWorld. We had
people who were passing by write in chalk what they would do to serve someone
this Christmas season. This one lady wrote something extremely profound. I’m going to send a picture of it because it’s
really good hahah. It was awesome. We had 1 guy harass us but that’s normal
haha. We talked to a lot of people and were able to get a bunch of people to
actually stop and chalk something :D pretty cool hahah :D
Wednesday was a pretty normal day. Got to go to good ol'
Food bank and stuffs which is always a delight. We unfortunately weren’t able
to teach anyone that day..... all of our appointments fell through...... It’s
starting to happen again hahaha appointments are dropping like flies haha. But
there is always that good tracting we can do. Speaking of tracting, we have approximately
11 hours of it planned for next week. Spread out through the week of course but
it’s still a llllooooottt of tracting haha. Hopefully we can find some lessons
to replace some of it ;)
Thursday was the *Announcer voice* THE WOOORRRLD WIIIDDDEE
DAY OF SERVICE SERVice SErvice Service servi... ser.... That was an echo if you
couldn’t tell ;) So the companion and I went and helped out a member in the
morning which was fun. Then the district we all went to another day of food
bank in the neighboring city. The same people run it so when we showed up they
were ecstatic haha. I love the food bank people so nice. There is this one we
are super tight with. His name is Eric. I think I have mentioned him before. We
bonded over the fact we both liked the Wombats (a band) We have a very similar
taste in music. But the more and more I talk with him I just get a good vibe.
He needs to be taught ya know? hahah We have had awesome talks about religion
in the past I just don’t know how to present the idea of setting up a time and
teaching him more about our church. I think I just need to man up and ask him straight
up. I might have to do it after transfers because this is a topic of contention
between me and the companion unfortunately. He is worried we might screw up our
relationship with Eric if we bring it up and teach him. He wants to just have
it casually come up instead of just asking him. Idk. I’m open to ideas. Maybe
this will work? I’m down to try anything. All I care about is that he gets to
hear the good news of the gospel. :D I think he would really like it. After
food bank we didn’t have a dinner that night so I lit a candle and had a nice
box of mac 'n' cheese hahaha :D After dinner they ward needed help with
stuffing letters for the Ward Christmas Letter. I was so down to help because
this will actually help us with our ward list efforts me and Magee and the
sisters are trying to do. We are sending out these letters to gauge who still
actually lives in the area. We requested return service if they don’t live
there. So hopefully we get some good information :D
Friday was an...... eventful day...... It was just like any
other normal Friday. We did our weekly planning, we worked on the ward list
some more. Then we had a dinner. One family wanted to feed the ENTIRE district.
Now mind you that’s 10 missionaries. So we all went.
We are about to enter a Mom heart attack area of the
email. Don’t worry mother I’m okay. Don’t worry. Just read on. This is just a
fair warning.
We all got there and we were looking for parking, we found a
nice parking spot so I got out of the car like a good missionary to help my
companion reverse. Well he pulled into a drive way and was going to back up.
There was a car coming, so I motioned for him not to go back. He started to go
back. So I hit the car telling him to stop. So my companion decided he was
going to be funny and let his foot of the brake. Now I was behind the car. NO I
DIDN'T GET RUN OVER....... just my foot. The car came off the drive way now
because the car is just low enough it scraps the back end when on inclines and
stuff. Underneath the car on the back bumper has a bar for us to connect a bike
rack to. Well that’s made of metal. So that came down on my foot. Luckily it
bounced off my foot and went up enough for me to pull my foot out. BOY, OH BOY
DID THAT HURT. hahaha So I really didn’t think much of it so we went to dinner.
We took my shoe off to make sure everything was alright. It started to swell
and it was hurting pretty bad. DON’T WORRY MOM I’M OKAY. After dinner we
went back to the apartment and called the mission president’s wife. She told us
to ice it until she could come down and see it the next day. She came the next
morning and looked at it. It was swollen. I could put weight on it. I could
still walk. I just had a minor limp. She was a nurse so after looking at it she
said it was probably just a really bad bump. But if its still hurting in a week
I should go into the doctor to get it checked out. But she is pretty positive
that it’s just soft tissue damage. Whatever that means.... hahah. Nothing bad
she says just like a really bad bruise/bump/goose egg haha :D It hasn’t stopped
me from doing missionary work so all is well :D
Just to make sure my mother knows and everyone who might
be worried. I’M OKAY. I JUST HAVE A SORE FOOT. THAT’S ALL. Love you! ;)
Saturday we had a lesson with a less active member which
went really well. After which we just went less active hunting hahah. Knocked
on doors inviting members to the Christmas party next week. We showed the
#LightTheWorld video to a bunch of people and just did that good finding. There
was a baptism that night!!!! Do you guys remember Yvonne I talked about 3 weeks
ago. She is the old polish women I got to teach in the zone leaders area while
on exchanges? She got baptized on Saturday!!! It was so cool to see!!! I was so
happy for her!! But yeah. That’s Saturday.
Sunday was a wonderful fast and testimony meeting. Heard
some awesome testimonies and had some really awesome topics in Sunday school
and what not :D It was just a super awesome day. AND THE CHRISTMAS DEVOTIONAL
WAS FREAKING AWESOME!! If you guys didn’t get a chance to see it. Go watch it
right now. The talks were amazing and the music was even more amazing. Just go
watch it right now hahahaha. :D President Eyring is the last speaker. and his
talk was just fantastic. The one topic that caught my attention through the
entire devotional was that without Easter, Christmas would be nothing. Easter,
Christ died and was risen on the third day. Without that sacrifice, Jesus just
would have been another baby born. But because of the blood atoning sacrifice
made Christmas has such an amazing meaning. I didn’t word it as amazing as some
of the speakers did so all of you should just go watch or listen to the
devotional :D
But yeah that was my week. Full of awesome happenings. Other
than the foot haha :D Guys I really love it out here. Like a lot. Even though it’s
one of the toughest things I have ever done. I love it. Every minute is a new
adventure. I find myself looking at people and thinking. "I wonder what
their story is" The gospel can help anyone and everyone. People just need
to slow down and listen. As we enter this Christmas season. It is my Christmas
wish for everyone just to take a second to just study/think/ponder/read/sing of
Christ. Let us all slow down and remember why Christmas is so important. Why we
really celebrate it. It is the birth of our lord and savior. In the most of
humble circumstances did he come into the world. And yet he did what no man
could. He made it possible to return to our father in heaven who is so
desperately wanting us to succeed. The spirit of Christmas can do a lot. Every
time I think about the spirit of Christmas I think of an instance where the
spirit of Christmas stopped a war for a single day in 1914, in Flanders Field
Belgium. It was dubbed the Christmas Truce. I don’t want to tell you guys about
it because if i did it would make this email way too long hahah it already is
long enough. so if you get the chance go look it up.
Anyway I love you all so much! I hope all of you have
amazing weeks! It’s so good to hear from all of you!!!
Until next week!!
-Elder Riley Field
p.s. I HIT MY 6 MONTH MARK THIS WEEK!!! Weird...... hahah;)
No comments:
Post a Comment