This week was awesome!
First of all, I hope you all had a Merry Christmas! We did :) skyping
home was so cool! See, I got lucky, I've been out almost 6 months and
this is my first of four calls home. Elder Conover's only been out
about 5 weeks, so he still remembered what his family looked like. Now
he's only got 3 calls left. Haha
Because it was Christmas week, most people didn't want to meet for a
lesson. But we did some fun service and contacted a few cool people :)
Tuesday was cool, we did service and had a video conference call from
the church with all of the training companionships in the mission. We
came straight from service, so we didn't even have time to change out
of our service clothes. We just threw white shirts and ties over our
clothes and set the video to only show from our waist up. Haha it was
pretty awesome.
Wednesday was just a TON of contacting, aka doors being slammed in our
face...but then we had a cool lesson that night! We stopped by
Kohanna's house to offer her a blessing because she's been feeling
sick and hasn't been able to meet with us lately. (I think I've talked
about her before. She's an investigator with a lot of potential, but
isn't planning on getting married to her boyfriend until next fall) We
showed up and I was able to give her a really neat blessing. Then, Ray
(her member boyfriend) steps outside with us and tells us that she
really wants to be baptized and they have decided to get married in
like 3 weeks! They're gonna get baptized soon!!! We are so pumped!!
Christmas Eve was sweet. We were supposed to stay home unless we had
scheduled lessons. Well we had scheduled lessons, so we bought a bunch
of cookies to bring to them. But then everybody cancelled and we were
stuck at home with a bunch of cookies. So we called up the District
leader and we hung out with them in our apartment and ate all of the
cookies :)
We also had Christmas off, so we spent almost the whole day at the
institute building, playing ping pong and pool and air hockey and
foosball and all sorts of board games with the zone. It was sweet!
So then Saturday rolls around, and we're both a little trunky from
skyping home, and nobody wants to meet the day after Christmas. So we
decide to go visit Shorty, the homeless guy. We got some money for
Christmas, and Elder Conover had an awesome idea. We bought a shirt
and some sweats, walked him to the laundromat, and had him change
while we washed his clothes for him. It ended up taking a few hours,
but we had fun getting to know him a little bit and sharing Mormon
message videos with him on our iPads. He was so genuinely grateful,
and asked us to leave him with a prayer. It made the whole thing worth
it when he tearfully asked us to come back and share our whole message
with him. I don't know if this can actually lead to a baptism, ya
know, because he doesn't have a car, house, or job, and he has a
drinking problem...haha but I'm glad we were able to help him out! :)
Aaaaand for all my choir friends out there...yesterday I sang in
sacrament meeting! Sister Godfrey is the ward music director and found
out I was in choir and finally convinced me to do it. Haha I sang a
cool arrangement of Teach Me To Walk in the Light. It reminded me how
much I miss choir :)
And that about sums up my week! I hope you all had a great Christmas
and have a Happy New Year!! :D
-Elder Wheeler :)
