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Week 60 Rhode Island Dec 9th 2019
Monday was a pretty fun day. It was our District P- day. Elder Johnson and I got what we needed to do done for the day earlier than usual. By 11am we made our way over to the Narragansett Elders apt. After they finished and got ready we all went to Kingston Bowling. We had a pretty fun time there and played 2 full games and half of the 3rd (we only had 2 hours). My first score was 59, then I got a 60. I wish we could have played a full 3rd game because on frame seven, I was already at 66 points! After we finished bowling we went out to Wendy's for lunch then went to the Warwick Chapel for games. We all had a lot of fun. We didn't get home until about 6:30ish we then had a quick dinner then had a lesson with Mike. He is a guy we are teaching who lives in the same apt complex as us. It went really well and we hope to see him at church within the next couple weeks! To end the night we came home and started to wrap copies of The Book of Mormon and the Bible. We plan on handing them out as gifts this month!
Tuesday, we woke up to a few inches of snow on the ground! We went to the Salvation Army and provided service. Right when we got there, it was pretty slow and the truck wasn’t there yet. We then shoveled snow in the parking lot and Elder Johnson tried to throw some snowballs at me. We also played a little bit of baseball, and I had fun hitting the balls of snow. The first order came in and it was a load of bread, we loaded it up in the shopping carts and brought it all inside. When the truck came we loaded up the carts and brought everything inside. Our job was to fit all the frozen stuff into the freezers. There was so much stuff this week we couldn't do it, but lucky we were able to get a lot of it in! Even the extra freezers were full! We had some lunch made by Brother Jones and it was better then it looked. We finished up and made our way to Walmart so I could swap my slippers in for the correct size. We came home changed and had an hour of studies. My studies today were pretty good, I read about Samson in the Bible (Judges) and the faith he had was incredible! After studies we made our way to visit a less active member with Brother and Sister Wood, unfortunately she canceled last minute. We then made our way to the Library to do our 1 hour of Facebook finding, but when we got to the Middletown Library it was closed. Before we left to Newport we talked to a man outside the Middletown Library and even gave him a Book of Mormon and he wants to even read it! We then made our way to the Newport Library; we did a lot of good work. After dinner we made our way to the Chapel to meet with Brother Raposa. While we waited we played volleyball with the young men. With Brother Raposa we had a lesson with a couple of Jackie's friend's. They both are on hard times and needed some spiritual uplifts. We talked about the Book of Mormon and the power of Prayer.
Wednesday right after we got ready we made our way to the Narragansett Elders apt to carpool up to interviews my Mission President. They went really well and as a Mission we have a goal for 44 Baptisms this month! It will be the most baptisms one month in a while! We as a companionship talked about how we can better see and help our area grow! After we finished we waited for the Narragansett Elders to do their interviews then went out to lunch. We also went with a couple other Elders. We first went to McDonalds then after went to the better place of Wendy's. We finished up and made our way back to our area. We went to the Library for our one hour session of Facebook and it was pretty successful! We then came home to wrap copies of the Book of Mormon and Bible so we can hand them out as gifts. We have a lot of great ideas for the season! We then went up to Portsmouth for a lesson with Dylan, he is the nephew of Brother Raposa. We watched the Christ Child video with him and it went really well! We did stop byes to people in the area for the rest of the night.
Thursday in studies I read the famous scripture in Helaman 5:12 talk about how Christ is the rock of our Foundation, if we make Him our Foundation he will help us withstand the storms of doubt and sins of the world. I also was able to read and ponder the words in my Patriarchal Blessing and I am continually striving to understand it more each and every time I read it. After studies we highlighted some scriptures and wrapped them up. After our lunch we went to visit James and have a lesson with him. We watched another Book of Mormon video and talked to him about what we watched. Next time we plan on going over the Plan of Salvation! We then made our way to the Library to do more of our Facebook finding and I made a couple free Bible posts! We will see how it goes! We then came home and had an early dinner so we could make it to a less active members home to have a lesson, but when we got there they weren't home. In missionary work that happens a lot. We then made our way to a couple people in the area for stop byes and we were able to talk with them! We then went to the Chapel and we met with Tionna and her friend Dante, we were able to watch the Christ Child video with them to help bring the Holiday Spirit! For our final lesson of the night we met with the Hyde family again. And this time we watched the Christ Child video, it truly is a powerful film depicting the Nativity and the coming of Christ!
Friday morning after we had a short studies we made our way to the Narragansett Elders apt then carpooled to have District Council. We had a pretty awesome training by the Scituate sisters on leaving commitments and following up. They even made it Christmas themed! It was pretty dang awesome! We had some cheese cake and some of the District practiced a song for Zone Conference this next week. When they finished us elders went to McDonalds for lunch because we had a coupon. Sadly it wasn’t as good as Wendy's, but hey we had a coupon so its okay. After lunch we made our way home and changed out of our suits. We then made our way downtown to go see Lloyd for a lesson and it took like 20 minutes to park! After we parked and we started to walk to his apt we called him and he let us know he had to reschedule. We decided to take the long way back to the car and we did some street contacting. When we got into the car we made our way to the Newport Library and we did an hour of Facebook Finding. Once again it was pretty successful! After a short dinner we made our way onto the Navy Base to have our Weekly FHE (Family Home Evening) activity. Once again it was pretty successful, There were about 100 or more Navy men and women. We shared a Christmas message and we invited all of them to do what they can to #LighttheWorld! While at FHE night we played a few games with a few of the Navy guys! We had a lot of fun with it all!
Saturday by 8 am we were already at the chapel for our weekly coordination meeting with Sister Harker and Brother Raposa. It went really well and the ward leaders are so willing to help! We came home and stopped by the club house at our apt complex and got some hot apple cider, it's always so good! When we got home we started our personal studies. We had an appointment cancel so we had to redo our plans for the day, to help save our miles. We went to do Facebook Finding one more time for the week and it went really well! We had a few more follows and friend requests accepted and we will be sending Christmas messages to them weekly up until Christmas. We then came home wrapped the last of our special Bibles and Book of Mormons and then had dinner. For the rest of the night we did stop byes and handed out the presents to former people being taught. With them being wrapped and us giving them as presents we were able to get inside a couple of homes and invite them to the special Christmas service on December 22nd!
Sunday was also a pretty good day! In the first hour I helped pass the Sacrament, and Elder Johnson said the Opening Prayer and Yes I did say the Closing Prayer. We had two really good talks today both on faith. The second talk the speaker brought up the scene in "The Polar Express" when the main Character has Santa’s bell in his hand but he cant hear it or even see Santa, Every once around him can. It's not until he says " I believe " he can then hear the Bell and also see Santa (who is right behind him). Same goes for us, we can’t see the blessing in our lives until we too say I believe. Second hour was Elders Quorum and we discussed the talk from the past General Conference "Be Faithful not Faithless". We need to feed ourselves spiritually with things that will nourish us, or we could die or hunger with a full stomach. When we got home we had our time for studies and then weekly planning. It was pretty good and we have lots of good plans to come! We then had dinner with the Hancock family and we had Shepards pie. The coolest thing about there home is all of the reptiles they own and I held almost all of them. They have one really aggressive Tegu who actually Bit Brother Hancock and he now needs stitches!!! It is crazy how fast it was. To end the night we went to see James and we watched the wonderful Christmas Devotional with him. I loved how it was so centered on Christ!
Luke 2:11
"11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."
Something so simple, yet so powerful. With the Christmas season at hand this is a great way to start out the month with this passage. Christ is the true meaning of Christmas. Sure it's fun and all to get gifts and give gifts, but the greatest gift of all came from our Father in Heaven, and that was his beloved son Jesus Christ! I have been able to watch "The Christ Child" movie a few times now, and each time it truly brings the spirit to me, to see how the Wise Men and the Shepherds went immediately to go see Christ. I invite all of you to do the same! You can watch it on thechurchofjesuschrist.org I promise you that it will bring the Christmas Spirit to your life! I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen
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