Happy Mother’s Day everybody!! I hope you all spent some
quality time with your mom's if you could go and see them. Hopefully you all
did something for your moms ;)
Anyway, this week has been a good week! Very busy though. We
have started zone conferences. First, we had the Eureka Zone conference and
then Ukaiah second. We have taken a short break but we start up tomorrow with
the Napa zone conference. And those last all the way till Friday and then we
have MLC on Saturday haha, so let’s just say i will be driving a lot in the
next few days! woohoo. I actually enjoy teaching at zone conference. We are
presenting ideas on how we can use Facebook as more of a missionary tool. And
also gathering input on how missionaries have seen success on Facebook! It’s
going really well!
So, like I said we had Zone conferences Tuesday and Wed so
my week really doesn't start till Thursday
So! we tried to have lessons with Jazlin and Gianna but both
of those fell through which was sad. But we did have lessons with Brother
Rowland Thursday night. We did our usual reading of the book of Mormon, it went
well. We challenged him to continue to read but we asked him to pray about it
this time. He said he would! so hopefully we see something exciting this next
week.
We did have A lesson with Gabriel, still hasn't made any
progress but he said he would like to start reading the book of Mormon with us
so hopefully we can help him start reading it on his own! Let's see how it goes
shall we?
Well unfortunately that's all the lessons we had this week.
We did have some pretty awesome contacts this week! We met a guy named Anthony
Lim who is such a cool dude, we were reading on a park bench when we approached
him and started talking to him. He became really interested and started asking
us all sorts of questions. We stayed and talked to him for a full hour!! It was
so cool!! We basically taught him the message of the restoration, First vision
account and all!!! Oh it was so cool!! We gave him a Book of Mormon and shared
some scriptures out of it and he loved them. He said he would read and give us
a call :D Hopefully we actually hear back. The second was a referral we had
gotten from a member, a woman and her daughter just moved into an apartment
next to theirs so we knocked on the door and met Julia. She was super nice and
said that we should drop by Sunday at 4. Well we did drop by but unfortunately,
she wasn’t home but her daughter was, her name was Daniella and we talked with
her for a bit. She seemed kind of interested and invited us back next Saturday
evening :D so we will be dropping back by this week! hopefully we can get in
with them. it would be so cool!!!
Sunday was awesome because it was Mother’s Day and I got to
talk to my family!!!!! LOVE YOU FAMILY!! it was cool to see them all. :D The crappy
thing about Sunday was that no one showed up to church..... Sad D: But the
phone call home made Sunday better!
Anyway, fun story of the week. Elder Jones and myself have challenged
ourselves to not say the word "I" or reference ourselves at all. (I’m
cheating a little bit because i get to email but outside of email we are back
on) It’s been interesting, we both want to be more focused on others instead of
ourselves and one of the ways he has discovered that helps is if we just use
other words. So, we use the word "We" and "Us" a lot
because we are a companionship, it seems to be working actually I find myself
focusing on others and their needs :D Woot. We will keep trying this :D
Another fun story of the week. We were contacting another referral
that we got from Salt Lake City about a woman who needed a blessing. So, we
went and as we were walking up to their house a man was in the garage sharping
a knife (I know sounds sketchy) I went to approach him when this MASSIVE
Pitbull came running toward me. (Not angrily but it wasn’t thrilled I was there
ya know?) So, while he was running at me, i stood up a little taller, when it
got to me it sniffed my leg and let out a little growl, and i don’t know what
came over me but i decided to bend over and pet the dog........... Yeah, the
really big scary dog that wasn’t thrilled to see me.......... So, in classic
dog petting fashion i exclaimed "Oh wow, you’re a big fella aren’t you, my
name is Elder Field what’s yours" The dog looked up and me and actually
licked my hand. So just like that we were best friends. But the best part of
the story is when the man saw this his jaw dropped. He walked out and grabbed
his dog (knife still in hand by the way) and put it in side and then looked at
us and said, "whoa man you got to be careful of dogs man" So what i
gathered from that is that hasn’t happened before and that dog probably should
have eaten me. fun stuff. Anyway, we met the woman and she asked us to come
back next week so hopefully i have another 'Friendly' Run in with the dog. I
think i will name him spike. He looked like a spike. ;) My companion told me
after the experience that he was getting ready to fight off the dog. He thought
it was going to eat me too.
Anyway, good week this week. This coming week is going to be
even more busy so we will see how it goes! wish me luck. Love you all! i hope
you all had a wonderful Mother’s Day! LOVE ALL Of YOU!!!!
-Elder Riley Field
The van is the van I get to drive to Zone conference!! So
cool. It’s like driving a freaking tank!
Da ocean
Last P-Day we went to the beach. Elder Jones has lime green
hat and I had found the one I was wearing in the apartment!
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