Hey guys! So this week was transfer doc week! which means
Elder Field now knows what will be happening for the next six weeks! So! I’m
staying San Rafael. No surprise there I was fairly certain of that. But here is
the kicker....... I will now be District Leader...... That’s not all...... I’m
also going to be training a new missionary, straight out of the MTC..... That
is the part I’m terrified of...... hahaha holy crap guys!! I’m freaking out!!
TRAIN?!?!? AND DL?!?!?!?!? I hit my 6-month mark and I guess they decided I
needed some responsibility in my mission life..... gosh.... this next transfer
is going to be an adventure and I’m looking forward to it. This also means that
my companion Elder Magee will no longer be in San Rafael. He will be transferred
to Vacaville...... *cough* yay *cough*....... I’m kidding ;) we actually
started to get along better towards the end of the transfer.... he is on to
bigger and better things. and I’m happy for him.
Anyway this week was a long week only because of the
transfer docs... we were so stressed out for them it was ridiculous. But it was
a busy week none the less :D
Monday was a pretty chill day. We went down to Sausalito!
Love that place haha. Its super touristy but they have some cool stuff. We went
shopping for family gifts and things like that :D it was just a super chill
day. After the p-day festivities, we had a lesson with Celeste (an investigator
with a baptismal date.... kinda, I will explain later) We went in and had a
great lesson with her. We went over the baptismal interview questions with her
to get her ready to ACTUALLY be interviewed. It was a very spirit driven lesson
which was nice :D We then set up 3 lessons a week with her. All the way until
her baptismal date. Just so we can really get her ready to be baptized.
Tuesday, was a busy day. We had an AWESOME zone meeting. The
lessons and discussions were awesome and I learned a lot about how to better my
mission experience and also about faith. The faith section was really cool. I
have a lot to work on haha. But since when have I not had a lot to work on
haha. After zone meeting we had a good zone lunch and played some games. After
which me and my companion basically went tracting for 2 hours hahahah.........
man oh man..... we actually got 2 return appointments with people so that’s
awesome!! Tracting does work sometimes!! haha :D Later that evening we have
been planning a Book of Mormon Jeopardy for our Book of Mormon class that has
been falling apart.... the numbers are dwindling.... SO we are revamping it and
to start it off we planned a Book of Mormon Jeopardy that was actually really
fun!! we only had 4 members show up but they had a lot of fun and totally
talked up the BoM class to other members. We are hoping for a bigger turn out
this week!! We are pumped!
Wednesday we tracted for the first hour and a half of the
day, got some peoples contact info, and another return appointment for later
that week Yay! After trafcting we had lunch then it was off to food bank! Ahhhh
good ol' food bank. Now Erik (one of the guys who works there, I have talked
about him before) walked up to us and said he wanted to hang out with us on
Saturday. Now Saturday was the ward Christmas party so we invited him out to
that he said he wouldn’t be able to do anything in the evening so he asked what
about noonish. Well we were doing a service at the golden gate bridge that
time. We told him about it not thinking anything of it. But he said he wanted
to come hahaha!!! So we told him sure!! He is such a cool guy!!! After food
bank we were supposed to have a lesson with Celeste.... but she cancelled...........
LAMEE....... so instead we went and did some less active finding and had a nice
lesson with a less active coupled named the Bogels. They are super nice :D We
shared the Light the world video and they loved it!!
Thursday was Elder Magee's Birthday! So after careful
planning I secretly put together a surprise birthday party for him. I got all
the missionaries involved, and a couple of members came as well! So in the
morning I made sure studies went a little longer than usual so that the other
missionaries could go set up. So I stalled studies.... which didn’t make elder Magee
to happy actually...... he was getting pretty angry....... I was just praying
he would forgive me after I got him to the church hahaha. So after all was said
and done I got the confirmation text from the sisters and we were off to the
church so that I could "pick up my coat I left at the church" we went
and I told him to check the relief society room. As soon as he opened the door
everyone jumped out. It was such a good time. He really enjoyed it and thanked
and forgave me for stalling hahaha. So we had a small party, played some games,
ate some cake, made him open his gifts, and then we were off to go visit some
people haha After a lot of no's and door slams it was time for dinner. We went
to dinner at Tarun's house! (The Recent convert who is Indian) We went over
with the district hahaha His wife invited all the missionaries to come over for
dinner. IT WAS SOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!! There was so much food but it was all
just so tasty! They found out it was elder Magee’s birthday and brought him a
cake and gave him gifts too! That was awesome. It was an overall good day. I
really hope elder Magee had a good day too. :D
Friday was weekly planning day! We started off the day with
our missionary council, ward list, meeting, thing..... I still don’t have a
name for it yet hahah. After which we as a district baked cookies and went and
caroled at an old folk’s home :D The prompt for Light the world was Jesus
visited the lonely and so can you. So we were fulfilling the prompt. :D so we
went and did some service then planned the rest of the day. After planning
though we had another lesson with Celeste. SUCH A GOOD LESSON. The spirit was
there!! She understood it! She asked questions!!! She just has that desire to
be baptized! We talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and she just ate it up.
We invited her to come to the ward Christmas party which was on Saturday and to
attend church this Sunday. (Now her attending church this Sunday was a must SHE
NEEDED to come to church so she could be baptized the following week!)
Saturday was a long and stressful day we went to the Golden
gate bridge to do service in the morning.... IT WAS RAINING SOOOO HARD....
hahahah we got there and the heavens opened up and it just dumped. They called
us right as we drove up and asked us if we were still coming. We told them we
were here and they said if you guys still want to come serve we have rain gear
for you to wear. We told them sure! Why not! The district all put on the rain
gear and did some service in the rain hahah! It was so much fun!! Even though
the rain gear really didn’t help we still had a ton of fun!! Erik even came and
served in the rain!!! I’m still trying to figure out a way to start teaching
him man. I think I’m just going to ask him straight up if he wants to learn
more. it sucks he doesn’t live in our area though..... I need to get into
contact with the missionaries over where he lives..... ANYWAY after the service
we went to In and Out Burger because Hermana Soba (who is from Uruguay) had
never been. After lunch we helped out some more members and went less active
finding..... no success unfortunately but we aren’t going to give up hahah. The
Christmas party was at 5 :D it was so much fun. The food was awesome. The
primary program nativity thing was just adorable. hahaha One of the kids
who wasn’t quite old enough to be in primary ran up while they were singing the
last song. The microphone was on the ground so he ran up and picked it up and
just started playing with it. OF course the parents ran over and told him to
put it down. So he did just that. He dropped the mic onto the stage and ran
off. THE BEST PART THOUGH. The last song had just ended and that’s when he
dropped the mic. Haha it was so funny. Our nativity scene ended with a mic drop
hahaha ;) so funny. We got transfer docs right after the Christmas party......
yikes.... still scared hahaha..
Sunday wasn’t too eventful. Just Church and the rest of the
day was going around to members and letting Magee say good bye aha.
Anyway! that’s my week!! I hope you all had a wonderful week
as well!! Know that I love you and I miss you all....... Please pray for my
greenie.... he is going to needed it hahahaha
Until next week!
-Elder Riley Field
Birthday boy
Service in the rain
Light the world, Chalk the block ;)
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