Monuments in Plymouth

Miles Standish Monument. 

Food Bank

Miles Standish Monument with our Trio

Zone splits

A huge Oak Leaf

Splits with Elder Thompson

Beautiful Walk with the fall leaves

Pumpkin carving with the Hovey's

Daves Diner looks like your in the 50's

Service at the Food Bank

Fore Fathers Monument

At the Miles Standish Monument with my Companions

Miles Standish Monument

My Comps

On the Jetty with my comps

Hand stand anyone?

Week 55 11-4-2019
 It's been a pretty fun week for us here in Plymouth! Monday we actually did some stuff for fun! We checked out a couple of the monuments in the area and for one of them we took a short hike to get there. The first one is the Forefathers monument. The second one is Miles Standish Monument. We also took a hike out on the Jetty downtown. At the end of it Elder White and I did handstands and yes we were careful. For dinner we are with the Hoveys. We were expecting to eat the clams we dug up but last minute they decided to take us to a Brazilian Churrascaria! It was pretty dang good. When we got back we did FHE (family home evening) with them and carved a pumpkin.  I wasn’t feeling to hot all day because of a head cold so we came home and I took a shower and passed out!
     Tuesday I still wasn’t feeling the absolute best but I was doing a little better. The first thing we did was visit one of the Brazilians Luceana. She is a Hair Dresser and she had a cheap price for haircuts. We all needed one! After we came back home changed and got ready to meet up with Phil.  He is a non- member but is friends with the local missionaries in a few areas. He loved Elder James and wanted to meet the new missionaries Elder White and Elder Leite.  After meeting with him we came home to eat before our lesson with Pam, it went super well and we helped her better understand the Book of Mormon. After dinner we made a lot of calls to Brazilians with interest.
     Wednesday morning the first thing we did was head out to meet the Zone Leaders half way in between our areas. Both of us are in trio’s so we did a 3 way exchange. Two companionships in Plymouth and 1 in Central Falls Rhode Island.  I was with Elder Thompson who is Visa waiting for Brazil.  We were in Plymouth English today. When the 4 of us got back (Elder Thompson, Elder Brollo, Elder Leite and I) we changed and made our way to the Food Bank to do service. With 4 of us it helped them out a lot! When we got back we changed and got ready to do planning and studying for the day. After planning we went somewhere public for studies.  We were on a corner off of Court Street. After studies we dropped off Elder Brollo and Elder Leite (both Brazilian Missionaries) in North Plymouth because they worked with the Portuguese for the day. Elder Thompson and I met with Brother Gould and read from the Book of Mormon. He seems to be doing great! He met us outside and was walking all around! After a visit with him and walking downtown for a little bit we drove to the Woods home for dinner. We had baked potatoes, ever since I started my mission I've grown to love veggies so much more! It was a little longer of a visit but we also got partial missionary coordination done. On the way home we tried to make stop byes with less active members and due to road work we hit a large detour in the middle of nowhere and it was a forested area in the DARK! It was sketchy to say the least we eventually met up with the other Elders then came home for the night.
      First off Happy Halloween! Thursday morning after we all got ready we made our way to exchange back. We met up halfway at a Dunkin Donuts and everyone was in costumes. When we finally got home we did some studies and had some lunch. We then went back to go visit Eric to check in on him.  We visited Sister Conway to also check in on her because it has been a couple weeks. We then had dinner and went to Chick-fil-a, it was super good. The rest of the night with it being Halloween it wouldn't be effective to go out and tract, we went to the Chapel for Elder White to work on his My Plan. I was also able to call home and talk to my family. They were also at their ward Trunk or Treat, so I was able to say Hi to members of my home ward! It was a fun night.
     Friday was District Council, and we had a lesson on Faith in Christ, Charity and Love as Christ like attributes. We then did a role play with a focus on using both the Bible and the Book of Mormon together. Later we went to see Sherri and Richard (Dick) and had lunch with them. We also had a lesson on the Word of Wisdom, and gave them blessings to help them out. Dick is 12 weeks clean from smoking!!! That is impressive, and we are so proud of him. For the rest of the day we stayed in Middleboro and made a few stop byes but not much luck.  We then had dinner planned with brother Mormann and went out to Dave's Diner. It was super cool and looked like it was out of the 50's! To end the night we had an amazing lesson with Pam and set a Baptismal Date with her!
     Saturday morning we get a text from Pam saying she wanted to talk about the Baptism. We met with her for lunch after our studies. She said she prayed a long time and she got her answer that she needs to be baptized on December 7th! That was so cool to hear, she has had a concern on not being ready to be baptized and was told "she will never be ready enough, no one is" that gave her a lot of peace. We first had a date for the 16th of November but the date was changed to December 7th!!! After that amazing lesson we went to go visit a less active member who we wanted to meet. She has been stuck in her house because she had surgery on her leg. We got to know her more and even helped give a blessing. On the way home we made stop byes and invited our friends to Church. The last little bit we wrote our email for the Ward Leaders.
     Sunday was Fast and Testimony Meeting and we made a plan for all three of us to bare our testimonies. Before we did we all helped pass the Sacrament to help out the ward. It was Elder Leites first time baring his testimony in front of a big crowd. He did an amazing job. We sat by the Hovey boys and Brigham wore all three of our name tags. After Church we came home and had planning and studies. I am starting to slowly understand Leviticus. We then had a lesson with a new person Clieton who is a Brazilian! It was a good lesson. We then met with Pam to check in on her and give her a Come Follow Me Booklet for this years study on the New Testament. For the rest of the night we were at the Woods for dinner, we got to know how they met and to end the night we had coordination!

                       1 Nephi 2:15
      "15 And my father dwelt in a tent."

     I honestly love this scripture passage so much. To me it truly shows a lot of humility. Lehi is the father in this passage that Nephi is writing about. Lehi and his whole family lived in a very nice home full of riches in Jerusalem. Because of a commandment of the Lord they left EVERYTHING! Lehi left his wonderful palace to "dwell in a tent". As I have pondered on this passage a question has come to my mind. What am I willing to leave behind to make my life better and come closer to Christ?  As a Missionary I have already left my family, friends, work and school just to help others in their faith. Now I want to invite you all to ponder for yourself "What are you willing to leave behind and dwell in a tent?"
I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen