Merry Christmas guys!! I can't believe it’s almost Christmas
already!! Holy cow! This month just flew by, but at the same time it felt like forever
hahah weeeiiirrrddd. Got to love that good missionary life, am I right?
Anyway! This week was quite eventful actually. As yall may
know I am training this transfer! The name of my new companion is Elder
Siebach! He is from Dover, Delaware! And let me tell you I have a feeling this
is going to be an awesome transfer!! He is Hecka cool! We get along really
well!!! It was a well needed change from last transfer :D Elder Siebach is 18
years old, he came straight out of high school, and he is the 10th of 12
children...... yeah freaking 11 siblings..... I thought 4 was a lot hahaha!!!
He actually did choir as well!! So of course once sister Wright found out
(Mission president’s wife) she assigned us a song in the Christmas party we are
having this Saturday. I’m also singing a duet with Hermana Foster. Not sure
what song we will be singing but who knows!! Hopefully I can learn it by the
end of the next couple of days hahah.
This week started off normally I guess. Just went around on Monday
saying goodbye to people elder Magee wanted to go say goodbye to. Nothing that
fancy. That night I didn’t sleep too well hahah...... because the next day is
when I would be officially District Leader and I will be getting my greenie. I
was quite stressed and kinda freaking out hahaha.
The next day was quite a long and busy one. First we went up
to Santa Rosa and I dropped off Elder Magee with his new companion. He took off
pretty quickly. I got to see Elder Taylor my last companion while there. That
was fun hahah. Same with Elder Knowlton! My MTC comp. We talked for a bit. Freaked
out with each other because we hit out 6-month mark haha. It was nice seeing
everyone from the MTC district. hahah. I also got to see Elder Brooks. I don’t
know if I talked about him much but I served with him in Vallejo and we got
along really well. Hahah we sat and talked for a little bit which was nice.
After all the festivities that tend to come with transfers, I went to a
meeting. We had a short little meeting then I was to go with 2 other elders and
work in Santa Rosa for about 3 hours, after that was done we would go and get
trained on how to be a good trainer..... boy talk about the longest meeting on
the planet, but it was really helpful :D After about a 2 hour meeting we got to
meet our new companions. They brought all the Greenies into the room where all
the trainers were and to be honest as soon as I saw Elder Siebach I knew he was
my new companion hahah. We took photos, we talked and got to know each other,
then we had dinner with President and his wife which was nice. Then we drove
down from Santa Rosa to San Rafael, about an hour drive. My poor greenie was
out cold for the entire ride haha. I took him to the church and introduced him
to all the other members of the district and then we took him home to sleep haha.
Wednesday was chill, but extremely busy at the same time. Nothing
too exciting happened. I took Elder Siebach to get some groceries, filled him
in on the area, and then we went to food bank :D it was fun :D Had a lesson
with Celeste that night. We had to push her baptism back. She hasn’t come to
church yet..... so we pushed the baptism back to January 14th. I’m extremely
sad but also happy about it. Hopefully everything goes well in the future. She didn’t
come to church this week either.... so we will be going over and having a talk
with her hahaha.
Thursday, we had some cool experiences. We started off the
day with some more training. We got all of his technology stuff taken care of.
(set up his area email, area book, just general items about technology) then we
had lunch with a member and her nonmember friend. The lesson...... went.....
okay...... I guess hahaha, the spirit was there so I guess it went well. It was
a really scatter brained lesson. She asked a lot of questions and expressed a
lot of concerns she had about the church. After all the question answering, we
asked her if she had read the Book of Mormon, she said yes. Something told me I
should pry a little deeper. I asked where
she left off in the book and she said somewhere towards the beginning because
it was so unbelievable. Again the same feeling came. I asked her what story was happening just to
see if I could clear up and confusion she had with a story, maybe that was her
problem. She said she couldn’t remember the story. This time I got a different
feeling. It was a feeling confirming to me that she had not read the Book of Mormon.
Got to love that good spirit of discernment am I right? :D Of course she wasn’t
understanding any of it. She hadn’t read the thing we base all of our beliefs
off of hahaha! So we pretty much ended the lesson right there and challenged
her to read the book cover to cover. And she said she would. So hopefully that
goes somewhere haha. Later that night we went to go see a man by the name of
Richard we met at the food bank a couple of weeks ago. Knocked on his door and
he was extremely drunk hahahah. So after having a very strange conversation
with him, we set a return appointment earlier in the afternoon haha hopefully
he won’t be drunk this time. While we were leaving there was a lady and her
kids who were moving into an apartment. So we stopped and helped her move stuff
in. She thanked us we gave her our card and walked away. When we got in the car
Elder Siebach looked at me and said, "We need to go back and talk to her
again." I shrugged and said, "Alright whatever the spirit of God
wants right?" We started to walk up and she was in her car going to drive
away. Elder Siebach looked so defeated but I wasn't going to let my greenie be
too defeated, so I sprinted up to the car and knocked on the window (I know
this seems a little drastic but the spirit gave my companion a prompting, it
had a be for something) she rolled the window down and we asked if we could
visit with her sometime and she said in 10 mins we could! So we went and sat in
a car for the 10 mins preparing a lesson. We had a wonderful lesson with them
about the Book of Mormon. Her name was Keisha and she has 4 kids who had a lot
of questions about religion. We gave them books and asked if we could come back
they said we could :) So cool! Elder Siebach was pretty pumped.
Friday was just weekly planning and I had a meeting in Santa
Rosa about how I be a good district leader haha. Woot.
Saturday we had zone meeting pretty much all day. We filmed
our Mormon message. For the Christmas party we as a zone were asked to film
asked Mormon message, we made ours funny, we did ours like the children bible
videos haha, we all pretended to a 4 and explain different Christmas
traditions, so fun.
Sunday was busy!! Had an awesome time at church, I had a
teach Elder Quorum which was fun. I was informed the night before haha swag. We
had another meeting in Petaluma. Sooooooooo many meetings hahaha..
Anyway! This week was good! I'm excited for this transfer and
am looking forward for the new adventures as DLT :) Anyway I love you all and
miss you! MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Remember what Christmas is really about.
I love you all!!
Elder Riley Field
Pictures-
Paper boats that we made and the aftermath (it's been
raining so freaking hard here hahaha)
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