Hey family!! Hope you all enjoyed conference as much as I
did :D I will talk a little bit about that late. So, what I mean in my subject
line, apparently there is a point on the mission where your stuff just starts
breaking...... I have reached that point. I have mended 4 pairs of my pants.
Luckily my basic sewing skills plus our mission presidents amazing wife, I
managed to fix all of them and they are ready for another year :D My Tablet
case broke too........ sad........ I have had to replace all the shoes laces on
all of my shoes hahaha.....Don’t ask me how all of them broke within a week but
it happened. I'm praying I move out of this stage in the mission quickly :D but
other than that I'm in pretty good spirits as per usual :D Shall we jump into my
week?
Monday!! Was P-Day as usual but we also had another lesson
with the Coons! We taught about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The lesson went
well. Everyone participated and seemed to have a good time. It got kinda boring
at the end so I tried to spice it up but it didn't do much. After the lesson,
we talked with them for a little bit and got to know them more. We FINALLY made
a connection with Brother Coons. (Here's a little back round on him. He was
born into the church was raised in it. Went on a mission. After his mission he
just went inactive. Like REALLY inactive. But now comes to church after his
wife joined the church. He now loves church and tries to attend every week,
Work schedules throw a wrench into that.) We made it over missions. We started
talking about his mission and just went off about all his mission stories and
we shared some of ours and it was just a grand time :D hopefully he will
continue to warm up to us. Love that family!
Tuesday, we had an awesome district meeting. I got to announce
the Easter Initiative to the district. #PrinceofPeace. The video is so freaking
cool!! if you haven’t seen it! go watch it. The spirit is pretty strong in that
video. It's all about how we can find peace in our savior Jesus Christ. I'm
super pumped to start sharing the video and handing out the pass along cards :D
We also went and visited an inactive member (Who says they are happy where they
are at but we can come over and visit but if we share a message or try to get
them to come back to church they will have their records removed... I know
right....) This guy is hardcore man. He served in the army in Vietnam and told
us about a time when he had to call napalm in on top of himself. He was being
overrun and so he thought well..... if he was going down he would take all of
them with him. We'll after dropping the napalm he lived. Got burned up a little
bit but wiped out all his enemies. He told us next time we come over he will
tell us more of his war stories...... But they are also some of the nicest
people :D I love the Daley couple. So cool. That night we had our book of
Mormon class and that wrapped up the day!
Wed We went to food bank and did some service there. Had
lots of fun as usual :D we then went over to a less active members from the
brush creek ward (The brush creek ward is home to President and the AP
missionaries, so because they are always busy we help them out with things in
their ward. So, it's kinda like we have 1 1/2 wards to cover. It's lots of fun)
home and read the Bible with her. While we were in the middle of reading, (we
read in our car because she lives in a sobriety home so for some reason we
aren't allowed in there so we read in our car) This lady came out of the house
to our left and got into her car in front of us. We made eye contact with her
and she started her car. We backed up just to give her some extra room. Even
though we gave her extra room she (very quickly) backed into our car....... We
got out of the car to assess damages and what not. Everything was fine. But because
it's a church vehicle we needed to get her number and insurance info and what
not. She was quite rude and wouldn’t give it to us. She gave us her name and
number and she said she was insured by farmers and then left........ But we got
her license plate number. So, we took the car to the mission vehicle
coordinator and since there was no damage all was good. I just am still baffled
how rude she was. Meh...... She will realize in the future she was rude to
God's servants :D
Thursday, we did some more service for Ginger..... We have
to pass her off to the other elders now. She just lives to far away from us for
us to keep going over and doing service. Too many miles. But after that we went
to the mission office. My companion had another chat with president (I don't
know) and I got to hang out with the Senior missionary couples in the mission
office which is always fun. Anyway, we did some door knocking, some street
contacting and just overall a bunch of finding for about 3 hours. Not much
success but we have 2 that said to come back later. They didn't seem too
interested and just said that to get us to leave BUT they still invited us
over!!! So, there’s a chance!! ;) after dinner and Correlation meeting with our
WML we had another lesson with Michelle all about the restoration of the
gospel. The entire time we were teaching this lesson the spirit was there and
was just confirming to me the entire time that what we are doing is truly the
Lords work :D SHE LOVED IT! at the very beginning of the lesson we asked her
about her feelings of the Book of Mormon. And she basically told us she knows
it's true......... Man part of me wishes she wasn't a baptized member.......
dang it.... hahaha oh well I'm just happy we get to teach someone as cool as Michelle.
Also, she called us her Mormons which was awesome! such a good lesson. We are
having another one on Monday. we are taking a short break from the missionary
lessons and will be teaching about church history. So, we will most likely
watch the Joseph Smith Prophet of the restoration movie. It explains it pretty
well :D
Friday was planning! woot. woot. we went over to the
Rowlands for dinner. Brother Rowland wasn't there so we couldn't have a lesson
unfortunately D: oh well......
Saturday was Conference!! I don't know about you guys but I
freaking loved conference so much haha We went over to the Peterson lane
building to watch it with all the other missionaries and investigators who
wanted to come. We invited Gabriel to the first and second sessions and he
didn't come. Brother beck invited him to priesthood, and I will get to that in
a second but finest Since I'm not going to be able to tell you what I learned
from every talk I'm just going to list 1 talk from each of the sessions I
really really like and why I liked it. First off I do have to say freaking
Mormon tabernacle choir was on point this weekend. I usually don't like them
very much but they sounded awesome. Anyway, Saturday morning session. I really
liked the talk by President Nelson of the quorum of the 12. I really like the
way he talked about how the atonement is not separate from the savior we should
always talk about the atonement in correlation with the savior. The atonement
is so cool :D love it! The Saturday afternoon session This one is hard. I'm going
to mention a couple from this session. I really like Holland’s because he
referenced all the choir stuff and king Lear in his talk. Gary B. Sabin about
standing up inside / going all in I though twas really fantastic. Spoke to me a
lot. And Neil L, Andersons was really good about overcoming the world :D
Priesthood session I'm going to take the cop out answer and say all of
them. They all answered at least 1 of my questions or concerns I had before conference
:D Bednar’s was super cool though :D We invited Gabriel to come to priesthood
session. it was about half over when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned to
my left thinking it was President Wright who happened to sit right next to me.
But it was Gabriel!!! He came!! he sat down next to me. Watched a talk and a
half. I looked over and he was bawling. He looked at me and said he would be
outside...... He left early....... I was kinda bummed about that :/
Sunday! Another amazing day of conference talks. The Sunday
morning session was super good. And Gabriel actually showed up again to it.
This time he sat through the entire session. (First off shout out to the new
temple going in Idaho! coolio) Rasband’s talk was my favorite from this
session. So goooooood!!!!! It literally answered all my questions in one talk.
Just proof that God knows me.... Heavenly father is cool am I right? ;) After
the session was over we were invited over to the bishop’s house to eat lunch
and watch the next session with his family :D we did and I watched the first
half and took really good notes...... But then they brought out the new
puppy...... And needless to say.... I'm a horrible missionary and didn't get
much out of the second half because puppies are distracting and I am a weak-willed
person sometimes....... ;) But I do plan on re-reading it so no worries I will
let you know which talk I liked the most some other time. That was pretty much
our day. Nothing too exciting after that. Just some finding and what not :D
Anyway, guys I hope you all enjoyed conference because I
know I did. It was such a spiritual and up lifting experience. The entire time
I just felt Heavenly father nudging me Every time something was spoken that
related to me. I felt like he was saying "Hey Riley, that was for
you." or "Hey Elder field, write that down. you will need it
later" or "Bruh, one of the people you are teaching needs this. Show
them" It was just such a good experience. I love conference. It also just
deepened my testimony of prophets and apostles. They truly are the Lord’s
servants here on the earth. And I sustain them all. God truly is revealing
great and marvelous things in this dispensation. And I can't wait to see what
else he reveals. I invite everyone to go find a favorite talk from this session
and prayerfully study it for the next week. I promise you it will help you more
than you think. I love you all!!! Talk to you next week!! BYE!!!
-Elder Riley Field
Pictures!
This member had us over for dinner..... their house was
massive.....
The view from their house and the sunset :D so pretty
The greatest T-shirt next to my hug life T-shirt that is ;)
(Sister Coons daughter)
We found this drawing on the chalk board in the gym after we
helped out with activity days. I can only assume that is us. I'm the one on
the left haha.
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