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| Sister Duecett and sister Stratford after a Blitz |
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| Jaggi family |
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| Jaggi family |
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| The District |
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| Golfing Simulator |
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| The District |
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| The District |
Monday after I woke up I called and talked to the family for a little bit. We then had a maintenance guy come in but we asked him to come back. He will be mudding today, sanding tomorrow and Wednesday the Painters will be coming in. We then went out to shop for the week and then came home. Shortly after we picked up some golf clubs from Brother Sykes. We then met the rest of the District at "Newport Indoor Golf" we played for about an hour and a half and we had lots of fun. We them went out to Chipotle for lunch then hit the Chapel for the remainder of the day. While we were there we all played a few games of chair soccer, SCUM (card game), and played a game of Basketball 2x2 with the Narragansett Elders. We then came home changed and then for the remainder of the night the Sisters and us Blitzed (both did missionary work in an area) a couple streets here in Newport. It went really well!
Tuesday was pretty good. We got ready for the day and made our way to the Chapel for WiFi. I met with my doctor and all is well! We then made our way over to the Salvation Army for service. It was a pretty small load this week, and I fit everything into the freezer! We had chicken chop suey for lunch. After we finished we organized a lot of boxes. We separated items into piles. Afterwards we came home made a few calls and had studies. We then made our way to dinner with the Barnes and we had steak and potatoes, it was pretty good! Before we left I was able to get Quin to do an Elbow Bump, the two girls (Quin and Bradie) never give high fives or anything to anyone but their Mom and Dad. I am the first missionary to get them to high five/ elbow bump (because of the virus) me. Their parents could hardly believe it! Afterwards we made our way to the Chapel and had Book of Mormon class. This weeks class was pretty big, there were 9 of us! After class we met with Cheryl and talked about prayer. We then played a game of basketball with the youth. To end the night we had a lesson with Mike on Spiritual CPR (Church, Pray, Read the scriptures) It was a pretty fun day!
Wednesday after we woke up we were able to have studies, that was really good, I am starting to read the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament! For lunch we met with Brother Daily and he took us out to "Becky's BBQ" it was pretty fun! Today the Apartment had a painting crew come in and that's why we left early. After lunch had a lesson on the Book of Mormon with James. After his lesson we came home to check out the apt. Luckily it was all painted, and it looks so nice now, It is also so clean! We waited a little bit for the walls to finish drying, then put it all back to normal. We then made our way to Dinner with the Roneys. They had a non-member over so it was pretty cool! She and her husband will be moving here to Newport soon! After dinner we had a lesson with Cassio and his wife Kelly. We had the Mendes family, and the Portuguese Elders were there to help us out. It went really well. We went over the Plan of Salvation and we will be meeting them next week! To end the night we had a good lesson with Dante on the Book if Mormon, we had some good lessons today!
Thursday was a pretty good day! Lots of crazy things happened. We had a good companion studies and then made our way to the Library to update area notes. Afterwards we hit CVS for a couple things, while we there we saw Brother Wood, he is a pretty cool guy! We then hit Wendy's then made our long drive up to Blackstone Massachusetts for a car inspection. The drive was long so we listened to a good talk by John Bytheway on what we can learn from the war chapters of the Book of Mormon. When we got to the place for the cars safety inspection it literally took 20 minutes. We them drove to the Scituate Chapel, because we were going to do a Blitz on their area. We had 40 more minutes so we tried to find somewhere to eat but the Chapel is in the middle of nowhere. We ended up going to a grocery store and bought subs. We then made our way back to the Chapel and met with the Sisters, along with another companionship and a couple members to help out. We then got a call from the Zone Leaders talking to us about the upcoming Zone Conference. Unfortunately due to the Virus COVID-19, it will be just our District for the first hour then a video call from President the second hour. After the call finished we went with Bill, a member of the Scituate Ward, we drove down to West Warwick and did tracting for two hours. We were able to give away 7 copies of the Book of Mormon! While on the way back to the Chapel, we got an email from the Church informing us that Church is canceled until further notice. It might be a couple months being this way. We then made our long drive home.
Friday morning after we got ready we made our way up to Narragansett and they then drove us up to the Warwick Chapel for District Council. It went really well, but we were asked by the mission to keep some distance from the other missionaries. We had a great training by sister Stratford on the Book of Mormon. After our District Council we all got an email from the mission informing us that we will all be getting $100 extra to buy two weeks worth of food in case we get quarantined into our apartments. We them went out to lunch at Wendy's then we made our way back to the Elders Apt. We decided to all just go to Walmart to go start to buy some food, when we got there, basically most of it was all gone. Luckily though, we did get food to start out. After we finished up we drove down to our Walmart for more food, plus I needed to pick up my medication. We then came home to change, then went straight to dinner with the Jaggi family. We had lots of fun with them, while we waited for Brother Jaggi to get home we were all outside because it was such a nice day! To end the night we were able to meet with Noel and Laura where we were able to talk about Temples and Eternal Marriage with them, they are doing really good! Both Noel and Laura are slowly drinking less coffee every day!
Saturday was pretty normal we did studies and went to the Library to update our area notes. Afterwards we went to Barnes and Nobel to do weekly planning. Right before we were about to end we got an email saying we are all going to be "quarantined"! At this point it is more of “Social Distancing” but basically we will be doing 90% of the work now from our apt! We quickly then went out to Walmart for some last minute things and then came home for the remainder of the night.
Sunday was for sure different not waking up and then going to Church. We were able to have studies and do Sacrament ourselves. Afterwards we did more studies, had lunch and then made our way to Brother Stableys house for board games with him and Brother Daily. We of course played the game pandemic! It is the perfect game for what’s going on in the world. We then played another game called stone age, and that was pretty fun as well! We then hit the apt and made a couple calls then drove to the Chapel for Wifi. There we are setting some things up to do Facebook posting in the coming days. Also we did a District Fireside so I used my Chromebook to help with the video call. We then went to our final appointment with the Evan's Family. We were able to share a message with them and talk to them a little more. They helped us out and gave us some 2 player games while we are stuck in the apt, for the most part. It truly is an interesting time to be a missionary!
Moroni 10:18
"18 And I would exhort you, my beloved brethren, that ye remember that every good gift cometh of Christ"
At times like these it maybe hard to see Gods hand in it. As we have read through the scriptures as people fall away and deny God scary things happen, we should remember that his hand is in all things, and just know that there are so many Good things that each of us have, this is because of God. Remember the good that he has done! I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen
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