So we're in the final week of the transfer! Holy cow I think this has been the fastest transfer yet! Where has the time gone?! I can't believe I'm going to hit my 5 month click soon! That means I'm almost out for 6 months! 1/4 of the way through... not even cool! HOLY CRAP!
So this last week I went on two amazing exchanges, one with my district leader Elder Christopher Perfili- and we taught a sweet lesson to one of our referrals, Mary. She seemed to have been struggling in life, and she got really upset because we couldn't enter in her home because we didn't bring a male with us [we're piles! :( ] but we just said "hey your couch is right by your front door, we can stand here and you can sit and we'll talk!" and we had a wicked awesome lesson with her about trials, and stuff. It was great- and I needed that because I've not taught many lessons.
But the 2 days before that I was on exchanges with my Zone Leader Elder Dahl! And that was awesome, we taught 2 lessons, one of the restoration and the other the Plan of Salvation. And I learned so much about teaching from Elder Dahl. He's probably the best missionary in Iowa in my opinion. He's so good at asking questions, and teaching and discerning what to say and talk about, it's killer. But the lessons both had the spirit really strongly, and I'm so grateful for the opportunity I had to work with him. I can honestly say my teaching skills have definately increased after those exchanges.
Elder Dahl and I also had a really interesting experience- we were tracting an apartment area, and when we entered one of the buildings for some reason I felt we needed to tract the top floor and move down. The top floor was a mess, it had tons of garbage bags all over full of stuff, and it was wet. The first door we knocked on the person told us it wasn't a good time because her apartment had caught fire on saturday and she was cleaning it up and waiting for her dad to get back to help. So we offered help- she kept trying to get around our help and in the end her excuse was "You might get your suits dirty" and we said "we'll go home and change. Seriously, we'd love to help!" So she was like, "wow, you two are serious... thanks so much." and we went home got changed into service clothes and came back to help clean for a good 3 hours. We ended up moving a ton of furniture for her and her dad, and got alot done for them! Her Sister, and husband were there too and they were all super grateful and we left them with a card. She told us it meant alot, and that she and her husband were actually moving across the street from the ZL's church building [this was in Peoria]. She was a major in religion for college and she said they'd have speakers from other religions coem speak and ours were always her favorite. We invited them to check out Mormon.org and left a small thought... softened some hearts and maybe sparked an interest?!
Anyways that's all I think was nice to talk about this week.
So I mentioned last week Mormon.org, sorry I was so brief the computer was weird and I had VERY little time to email.
Mormon.org is the definition of awesome. If you haven't looked at it here's a link: http://mormon.org/ look at it for 10-15 minutes, and then get back to my blog. It's a magnificent way to do missionary work. I can't even describe how excited I am about it. I also encourage you all to please set up accounts! (only people ages 18 and older can) and to bear your testimonies about this Gospel! Let's get this work put forth! It's really a magnificent thing!
I know this church is true, I love it, I love you!
Elder Prows
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