This week was better compared to
last week. We were able to get a lot done.
On Monday we had some fun doing
pottery and getting messy then had to rush to get home to have the Chappells
take us to go shopping. Then we had to
go teach George, then went to email, and it was a pretty exhausting day biking
up and down hills so we could do what we wanted. It was fun though. Just killed
my calves.
Tuesday was a bizarre day since the
sister missionaries and Sister Chappell took the senior ‘s car to go to a
Sisters Meeting in Richmond. We and Elder
Chappell borrowed about 3 different cars to get around. We went to go to pick
up and burn wood at a less active’s house. The first vehicle we borrowed to do
the service work was a truck and the fan belt broke. We had to borrow another car to go get a new
belt and also go to teach some appointments (which fell through). Once the new belt got put on the truck, we
got it back to get wood from someone else.
We loaded it later split it while wearing our proselyting clothes and
surprisingly we didn't get dirty. We then had to borrow another car to get
dropped off at Robert’s house. He wasn't drunk this time and was good and
sober. However, his conversation was a little odd. He talked about how the college girls were
all clones since they seem too much alike. He also shared some conspiracy
theories and talked about guns. Robert told us, after we asked him about coming
back to the church, that he will not go back because of the memories and other
things. He said he won’t pray or read scriptures either. He’s a good guy
though.
We had district meeting and what
happens before is called zone portion where the zone leaders will tell us what’s
up and what to do. One thing that week was a big contest to see who could get
the most investigators. President Wilson
said he would do splits or tract or companionship study with them. I didn't
care much for this idea because it sounds like just a big game and I want to
find people to strengthen our area, not try to impress a mission president.
During the last zone meeting, one of
the sisters made a comment that we should wear mustaches and ask the question, "How
mustache you know your Savior?" So
this district meeting I wore a cheap mustache held on by tape and used mustache
puns after the meeting. It was funny. Going home after the meeting was pretty
hard cuz it makes Elder Martineau tired to make the long ride back and when he’s
tired that makes it hard to work. Later that night we played bowling with the
youth, Elder Chappell, and B. Boyle so it was a good game.
Thursday was mainly service. In the morning we went to the food pantry to
stack food and sort things and get ready for the afternoon. We got free eclairs
out of it and got to talk with some of the owners. B. Manry went with us. Later, he also went with us and B. Chappell to
go burn more wood at B. Goodwin’s and lift stuff. It was hot! I was finally able to get all the wood out of
the tall grass and into a pile. Afterward, we taught a lady named Mary who
believes in everything we do, but goes to another church and it’s annoying.
Then we did the afternoon part of the service at the food pantry. We got there
and the other Farmville missionaries were there in service clothes and we were
all dressed up. It was funny. The guy in
charge said it would be better if everyone would go down the line and put food
in the bags themselves, but I took charge and formed the cycle way of doing it
like I saw them doing in a food pantry last year. It went by pretty fast and
was really fun. We got to talk to some college kids while doing it.
Friday was weekly planning and
service. One service project was putting
a ton of books away at the library. It was a big stack turned in by one lady
because there is no limit here. Too many books!
Mainly children’s books. The cool
thing was by the end of the day the zone leaders came to help us find
investigators in this apartment complex called Sunchase which has a lot of
college kids in it. Usually that leads to rejection but we were able to find a
few. Elder Hitesman and I went to one side and on our second door ran across
this guy named Marty. He’s an older guy and told us after we asked for his
religious background that he does big jumps from church to church. He even let
us in his house - he told us that we were the only other people to enter his
house for a year, like not even his wife is allowed in. It was pretty cool.
Elder Martineau and Kennedy got rejection and some interested people. One was Sam, a college girl. Her Mormon boyfriend was there that night so
they were able to teach her and also a group of college guys that we are
meeting tonight. It was pretty cool! We
went to Cook Out and played Bang! at home.
Friday was slow since we hung out a
little too long with the zone leaders before they left. We tracted again at
Sunchase and got a lot of awkward looks.
We met a lot of Catholics who were not interested, but we got a few potentials
from it. We were finally able to get a
hold of Henry (who had a baptismal date when I first got here) and we talked
with him. He’s older, like 84 years old. We tried to teach him the Law of
Chastity but he went off about the government and some other kinds of things. Elder Martineau was zoning out half the time
and not talking so I was trying hard to get him on track. We set a baptismal
date for him for the 12th of October which was the exact day I entered the MTC
a year ago. Pretty crazy stuff, right? Time flies!
Sunday was funny mainly because of
all the characters in Gospel Principles who talk a lot and have funny rambling
things to say. Henry came to church and he sat next to me in Gospel Principles.
We were able to get more dinner appointments after S. Gavillan pointed it out
and people coming out with us on splits were going to feed us before the
appointment. After church we went to go see people in the unknown section of the
area book. One guy named Brent was a former pastor and wasn't interested but he
gave me a book called "Eagle in the Sky" since I told him I wanted to
go to medical school. The book is about
doctors in the Civil War. Elder Martineau said a prayer really slow and halfway
through it Brent said, “Amen!” Later the Chappells fed us and I like it when
people feed us because I get to know more about them.
Well that’s it for this week and
love you all.
Elder McClure
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