Well this week has been pretty slow! Every night we plan to have a busy day seeing a bunch of people! But it never turns out that way. I just feel like we could be doing more work.
Anyways there is this lady in our apartment building who occasionally makes us cake and stuff, is in love with the Osmonds, and has a son in jail. ha But the other day she asked if we could go visit her son in prison since we are ministers and it wouldn't take away from her visitation. We thought it was a good idea, especially because talking to people in jail sounded like tons of fun! When we got to the jail though they said that we had to go to school and have papers and have a degree to be a minister! We showed her our minister card but they said it wasn't valid... How stupid is that! Um... True church? Priesthood Authority? ...Ministers... oh well. We were aloud to leave literature so we left him a Book of Mormon and a pamphlet, and then we gave the same stuff to his Mom and talked to her about it so that she could talk with her son about it. But she seems pretty interested so we are going to try and teach her as well.
On Wednesday we had the opportunity to help out with a Methodist Food pantry. Real nice people. Apparently every month they have this food drive thing where they gather up food from a bunch of places and then help out the community by giving it away. Someone we ran into told us we could come help, so we did. Apparently Missionaries have done it in the past but nothing big came of it so that was probably our only time.
Sam and Mikaela are doing great! They have been getting hit with anti stuff but they are still holding strong! Their family isnt super accepting of it, so last week we had a lesson about the Family Proclamation and told them how important families are in the church. And it went super good. Sam took the Proclamation and read it with her husband and told him that we wanted to meet with him. He said yes and now we are going to have a lesson with him this wednesday! Sweet!
On Thursday we had Zone Conference! First one on the mission! It was way good! basically it was a lot of trainings but it definitely helped us realize where we are at and what we could be doing better. I know for me it helped to that. I took a lot of great notes and one thing i especially like was when they talked about simply doing the basics. Things in missionary work like planning for the day having meaningful comp study and personal study really set off the mood on how you do missionary work, and how effective it is. I guess its the same with lots of other aspects of our lives just starting from the basics. And knowing where to begin.
Well not much else to tell. Except for the fact that today we confirmed... we have bed bugs.... I'm Ticked!! But don't worry we will be getting rid of them asap! I found one this morning and i wasn't sure what kind of bug it was but our bishop owns Terminix bug extermination so i bagged that bug and brought it into email today. And sure enough he tells us what it is... What can you do. Im getting rid of them... thats what im gonna do.
One more thing before i go. We cant go to the temple once a transfer anymore! im pretty bummed especially since we had planned to go this thursday. New mission policy, we cant go unless we have a new member going through for the first time. On the bright side. We might be able to go a couple times a transfer if we get new members to the temple ;)
Well, I love you family! hope everything is going well at home! stay strong in the gospel! and carry on!
Love,
~Elder Jones~
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