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Elder McClure had another very fun week of missionary work. It all started with the Monday when I got Elder Downs who was emergency transferred to the area. So, now that E. Joyner is gone, it’s all on me to keep the area working out which I have next to no experience with. We have basically shot-gunned the area (not in a violent way!). I have been a district leader for more than 2 weeks during which a lot of things have happened. I’m also the driver, but we were able to borrow a GPS from a member (GPS devices are essential to being a missionary).
We spent the week going through a lot of people in the records that have been visited in times past and also less active/ part member families on the list as well. We haven't really gotten into contact with a lot of them because they will either not be home or whatever. On Monday night, we went to the Elder’s Quorum President’s house. He is going to give me his guitar since he doesn’t play a lot and he just needs to fix something on it and he'll give it to me. On the negative side, I found bedbug bites on me from an exchange last week were I literally slept in an infested bed. We knew it had been infested, but thought they were gone, but not so! Really itchy.
Tuesday: we cleaned the apartment and after a lot of unsuccessful visits had dinner with the Beidlers and that was fun. After that, we talked with a less active member, S. Postma, again and she went on for a long time about the game Skyrim again and frankly the game is so long it just sucks you in.
Wednesday: another day of seeing people randomly on the list and a couple of them asked us to come back. Funny thing: we went to a lady’s house and she wasn’t interested but when we offered her a card she was like, “I already have a lot of cards from you guys. I think I’ll be good.” So that let me know that her area was a tracting hot spot. We also went to a house with a gated yard and a dog was inside barking. Elder Downs was like, “Let’s go ahead; he won’t bother us.” I wasn’t too worried about the dog, which didn’t bother us, but Elder Downs took it as an act of faith rather than just that the dog was sheepish.
Thursday: we had the senior couple look at our apartment and got things written up and then the Zone Leaders asked us if we buy a bunch of ingredients so E. Marriott would have what he needed to make a big batch of pizzas for zone meeting the next day. We got the stuff, like two big bags of cheese, and then had to run them down to Charlottesville. The rest of the day we brought Brother Bagley to help drive us around. For the first lesson appointment, we went up to the door and there was a note that said “not interested” on the door. The lady seemed really interested, too. Huh? Then we had a lesson with a hispanic teenager on his porch and it was kind of awkward but we got a return appointment. The last person we saw was S. Campbell, a less active member, and she just happened to be the step-daughter of B. Bagley so it was a good time talking with her. She has a problem smoking so I gave her a 12 week program to get over it. The program is for alcoholics instead of smokers, but it should work just as well. Funny though.
Friday: zone meeting and there was a lot of pizza after. We talked about this cool new thing they are doing where they are putting a QR code on a pass-along card that when scanned, will download a free copy of the Book of Mormon onto the phone or iPad. Really sweet.
Saturday: we took a long trip where I was able to baptize Allaya Williams. It was really cool wearing all white. I had to do the baptism twice from the fact her leg stuck out of the water and I left out one word in the baptism prayer. Really cool! We didn't do much else but drive back. I forgot to bring extra garments so I had to wear the wet ones. We did weekly planning and saw a few people.
Sunday: we had to teach an adult lesson in Sunday School and I talked through most of it. It was about 3 Nephi 17-19. The guy that was supposed to teach it volunteered someone else and that guy didn't want to do it so he gave it to us. So that was fun although Elder Downs isn’t the speak up kind of guy. We got a lot of people signing up for dinners and some people for splits and a lesson with a part-member family where the father is interested, so it is going to be good. There is a trunk- or-treat this Wednesday so that’s cool. We talked to a lady named Carrosel for 3 hours about her being raised strong Catholic and not interested in our beliefs. She also brought up the question about whether animals go to heaven. She said animals don’t have souls. Weird.
That’s my week. I love you all,
Elder McClure
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