First off, I want to give a shout out to both my little sisters.
It was Alivia’s birthday a while ago, but I kept forgetting to write about it.
Sorry Alivia! I love you lots!
Also shout out to Danika! Who turns 18 on Wed!! AND SHE
GRADUATED HIGHSCHOOL! Happy birthday Dani!! I love you lots and wish you the
best in whatever you’re going to do with your life!
Also, one last thing, Happy Memorial Day today. Let us all
take time to remember and honor the fallen heroes that gave their life fighting
for our country throughout the ages. I thank of them for their service and let
them know that I will never forget them and their service. I want to send a
very special thanks to their families. God bless.
I guess we will move into my week now.. *clears throat*
*trumpet thing they do in movies when they announce
things*
HEAR YE HEAR YE! LET IT BE KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE LAND THAT THE
TRANSFER DOCUMENTS HAVE ARRIVED!
*the trumpet sounds again*
Alright enough if that haha! Yeah so, I will end up staying
a tech elder in the Rincon Valley ward which you know what that means! I have
spent 1/4 of my mission in Rincon Valley! Hahaha it's awesome! Elder Jones will
be leaving me which I am incredibly sad about that.... 1 transfer wasn't enough
with him. Oh well, he lives in Bountiful so I should be able to chill with him
more after the mission. But I will be getting a new companion named Elder
Reese. I have no clue who he is. I have been told he is great so I'm excited to
meet him. Boy he doesn't know what's going to hit him tomorrow. Haha it's like
"Hi! Welcome to Rincon Valley! Congrats on being a tech elder. Here are
these things let's get to work" because (I actually didn't know this but)
the tech elders run transfers..... We make sure everyone gets their new
companion, gets luggage moved around. We have to get everyone here at 9:30 and
out be 10:30 hahaha should be fun. I get a megaphone ;)
Anyway, this we had a busier week with getting everything
planned out for the upcoming MLC which is on Thursday and I still don't know if
we are teaching at it or not....... So hopefully President will let us know.
But we actually found three really good promising contacts this week that we
have return appointments! Their names are Arthur, Laurie (and her son Roman),
and Mark. We met them all while going through the area book and finding names
that had been tracted into but never returned. All of them are super kind and
would make amazing Mormons haha ;) I will let you know next week how our visits
with all of them go:)
So, this week we had lessons with Gabriel, brother Rowland,
and Gianna this week. We are going to have a lesson with Jazlyn today at 7
which I'm excited about.
The lesson with Gabriel was alright. We read from Alma 36
and talked about repentance and baptism. He says baptism is in his plan he just
for some reason won't commit to being baptized. They guy is ready for it. There
is something that's holding him up. Not sure what it is but I intend to find
out. Our lesson with brother Rowland was a good one. We had dinner with their
family and then after had a quick 20 min lesson. We asked him to read and pray
about the book of Mormon. He didn't do it unfortunately, he said he was busy
and forgot. We then bore testimony of how the only way he is going to know if
this church is true is if he prays about the Book of Mormon. We also talked about
the importance of prayer and how we can find the answers to life's mysteries
through prayer and scripture study. He seemed receptive but I'm not sure.... I
just hope he actually prays. And don't worry we talked about real intent as
well ;)
We had a family history lesson with Gianna on Saturday which
went really well. We actually found the immigration records of her grandparents
and her father when he was 6. She was so excited when we found it. The
immigrated from Italy in '49 which was super cool. She got super pumped to
continue to do family history and she can't wait to find out more about her
ancestors. She already has a bunch of cool stories that she had heard about her
family. We encouraged her to write them down so she can upload them to family search.
She said she would. We are really hoping that the spirit of Elijah will start
to pull her to the temple. That's where we are hoping this all ends at.
This week was busy with tech stuff. A program we use called
"area book" (which we use to organize our schedule, people we teach,
what we have taught them, so on and so forth) has been acting up. To be honest
area book is a shotty program at best anyway. But whatever the recent update
they did..... Screwed up a bunch of things. So, we have been getting calls
about it. Sadly, the only solution is to wait until they release a new
update...... Along with that we just have been busy in the office running
around fixing printers, tablets, phones, laptops. I don't think fix is the
right word. We like the phrase "playing with them till they work"
haha
Other than that, our time was spent finding and preparing
for transfers. Not any cool or funny stories this week...... I will work on
that this week. I'm also going to be working on taking more photos.... Elder
Jones and I have been horrible at that this transfer..... I will fix that. 1
for my mom’s sake and 2 I want something to look back on haha. Anyway, I love
you all and I hope you all have a wonderful week.
Love you!
-Elder Riley Field
The picture is the trees that are behind our apartment.....
Am I the only one who sees a lion...? I named him Simba....
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