3/15/2021

Hey everyone! 

This week was really good. We had a lot of opportunities to serve the community. I learned how to set up a tea party! 

Yep for service we went to a retirement community called Emerald Oaks and they needed our help to set up the tables for a tea party they were having. You had to set it up a specific way and everything. It was pretty fancy. We also helped take out trash and some other things too. 

We also helped a man who was moving a lot of stuff into a storage unit. He had a moving truck full of things and it was a pretty huge job. We had like 6 of missionaries there to help out. The man was super grateful for our help. 

This week we had a lot of fun visiting with many of the members of the ward who we don't know. We have many who have moved in recently and are trying to meet everyone. I accidentally found someone who lives in Uganda Africa on Facebook. The good news is she is interested in the Gospel. We had a phone call and she wants to meet with the missionaries down there so we are sending her as a referral down there. 

We had a missionary join me and Elder Sherman for a day who is preparing to leave to Chile in South America. He lives in the stake and has been going with the other missionaries to see what missionary work is like. It was super fun being in a trio with him. We were giving him lots of good tips and stuff. I also got to help with his Spanish little haha. He leaves this next Thursday to Chile. 

I also did exchanges with my Zone Leader Elder Dillingham this week. It was super fun going into his area. We had a jam packed day of things to do. We did service moving a BBQ grill upstairs to a patio. We had lots of lessons that day so we were super busy. We didn't stop moving until that night. Elder Dillingham is pretty fun. He was serving in Brazil before Covid and so he speaks a little Portuguese. We also spoke Spanish to each other too. We had a great time serving with each other. 

On Sunday, me and Elder Sherman gave talks about Baptism and the Holy Ghost. It was super fun and easy haha. It was supposed to be 15 minutes each as well. I used a flash light to describe the Holy Ghost in my talk. 

We also met with our stake President Counselor and stake family history consultant this week. They want to work with us on teaching more of the Family History and Temples lesson so this next Thursday we are going to be giving training on this with them to all the family history consultants in the stake. They want us to do a role-play activity to show them how the missionaries and the family history consultants would work together in a lesson. It's going to be super fun and we are really excited about it.

Well that's about it for this week. I hope you all have an amazing week and everything!  

Pictures from service and our Exchange: