The Lord continues to bless us with weather that does not involve snow, but it is still cold regardless [stupid wind]. Supposedly this Wednesday it will snow though.
I can't believe that this transfer is almost over, and that I've been in the field for a month! CRAZY! I looked in my journal this morning and I've been in the field for 55 days- that's epic. It doesn't seem like I've been out that long- which is weird.
So we didn't really teach any lessons this week- we watched the video 'Finding Faith in Christ' with Jessica and Mark, and I have to say to you all that you really should watch that movie. It's really really good and powerful! But other than that we didn't teach them anything, and Fred and Katie are out of town so we won't be able to see them again until the end of the holidays; which means we will be lessonless-ish for a while. But that's ok, 'tis the season to be jolly! Now that people are going to be home alot less we get to do some creative stuff! Such as go to the mall and walk around and talk to the till manager people- great ITL experiences- or we can just do some good ole tracting in the bitter cold?
I'm not really sure what to say about this week- it was pretty interesting.
Oh! Elder Sonderegger and I got to excercise our priesthood authority several times this last week and give lots of blessings. It was really cool, the first blessing we gave I knew I was going to be the voice. I just knew- the brother couldn't decide who he wanted to voice, and he flipped a coin. Elder Sonderegger was Heads, I was tails- guess what it was? Tails! So I got to voice a blessing, and it was a really neat experience. We rarely give blessings, so that was a really cool experience. But the next day a dad asked us to give a blessing to his son, because his son was having a hard time in school- and E.S. voices that one. And then we were asked to join in a blessing on a sister who was having some trials yesterday. So it was a neat experience to do that :)
We had stake conference yesterday- oh and I have to say- WORST STAKE CHOIR EVER. It was bad, it was just bad. Like you could feel the spirit. But it was bad- the look on the people on the stands faces was great. Pres. Jergensen, and Sis. Jergensen spoke though, and they gave some really amazing talks. I'm super fortunate to have them as my Mission Presidency! I can't really share insight from it because I forgot my study journal at the apartment, but basically what it said was A) Everyone should study Preach My Gospel along with their scriptures B) Boys should begin practicing using Preach My Gospel NOW! Really good talks, I learned alot from them.
Saturday we did a service activity. It was the worst activity ever. We went to the Iowa Games- or in other words keeping score for a basketball tournament for kids from the grades of 2nd-7th I think. It was 13 hours long. I got up at 5 in the morning, showered and got ready for the day, drove at 6 from Des Moines to Ames, and at 7 I began watching 3rd graders chase a ball for 13 hours and keep score... it was DREADFUL! I was excited for the first 30 minutes, but then I realized "Oh, wait... I get to do this for another 12 hours." Yeah, it was pretty bad- and you add the parents yelling at you for "getting the score wrong a.k.a. not letting their kid win" and the kids not really playing basketball, and the lack of food, and the need to use the facilities every 15 minutes it was bad. And when we had the chance to go to the bathroom we only had 2 minutes to go! 2 MINUTES!!! 35 minutes of watching garbage, and 2 minutes to myself?! BAH!!! Anyways in the end we played basketball in our pross [church clothes] and ate cheap mexican food. It was a rough day. We barely managed to get to bed at 10:30- I think I went to bed at 10:34 actually. I'm such an apostate! :(
Anyways that's all that was really worth writing about this last week, because I can't really remember much other than me crocheteing a hat, and going on exchanges. OH! Exchanges are so fun, but the only part I hate about them are the part where you meet people you really grow to like, but you never see them again. It's sad. But oh well. BTW, Thursday night was the hardest day eating-wise EVER:
So we have our District Meeting as usual on thursdays, and then we go to district lunch- I had an AMAZING pulled pork sandwich, and then we got for dessert a huge hot fudge sundae. It was really good. Then E. Lewis and I go to dinner, and we have pulled pork sandwiches [the irony], only they were more spicy this time. After Dinner we had Brownies and ice cream, which was delicious, but by the time I finished it I was STUFFED. Then we went to a members home to teach some investigators, and they go "guess what we got?! Homemade brownies and homemade ice cream!!" I was about to cry. It's so hard when a member says "We won't be offended if you don't want any..." *STARE*. They literally stared at me til my bowl was clean. It was the most difficult night ever, thank goodness the next day Elder Lewis and I lacked a car, so we had to bike for 3 hours- it was great! I love biking now, it's really fun.
anyways just some fun stories for you all. Just remember everyone that if you feed a missionary dessert, remember to tell them so they save room for it.
TTFN!
Elder Prows
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