Last monday evening we went to Empty Nester's FHE (The older people in the ward that no longer have kids living at home) because they wanted us to teach them how to go about doing member missionary work. What we did was watched the Restoration and then had a little testimony meeting, (oh! First I have to tell you that we were asked to keep the lesson to about 20-30 minutes, from 7:30-8:00ish) so the Restoration took up about 20 minutes, and after I bore my testimony about the Restoration then left it open for others to bare their testimonies for about 10 (there were only about 11 of them (older couples) there 13 total) and only 5 of us bore testimonies. Elder Adam closed with his testimony and then told them that we can't tell you A specific way to do missionary work, that everyone has a different style, and then he asked if they would invite someone to a church social and only 2 said yeah and 1 or 2 nodded their heads, but other than that it ws very silent. A few seconds later one of the guys raised his hand and asked if he could be exused. We thought REALLY!?!? and said ...sure... he and his wife were going dancing at 8 and at this point it is 8:10. Everything fell after that. We closed right after and then I was asked to say the closing prayer. After that we had atleast 3 people tell us that next time we shouldn't take that much time up. First of we started 5 minutes late, so we only went 5 minutes over what we were told to go, and we thought it was ok because WE were feeling the Spirit, and we thought others were too, but it like they really didn't care about what we did! Yeah maybe they thought that we would teach them, but we both felt like we should try it. We weren't in a very good mood after that, so we just went back to the apartment for the rest of the night.
On Tuesday after lunch we visited a member and taught a lesson. After she asked us to go see her visiting teachy, so we did. We just visited with her and her husband (they were both pretty old.) After that we went to visit a girl who we tracted into, her name is Askana Madrinan. She is from Panama and her first language was Spanish. She can speak English, but some words weren't the same in Spanish. We answered some of her questions about the Gospel and about Joesph Smith, but she was very confused about Joesph Smith. We set another appointment with her on Friday and I'll tell about that one in a minute. After that we went to a members home for dinner, and then out to another members home to have a lesson. We went to the Hensley's and that are awesome! Bro Hensley use to be a bishop in another ward, so I thought it was cool to hear some of his thoughts, we told him about what happened at Empty Nester's and he just chuckled, they have at least attempted to get us referrals or to have us over when they invite a less active member(s). We talked about how we can have as much joy as Ammon had in Alma 27:17. That was actually one of his goals for this year, to feel that much joy! It was very interesting!
On Wednesday we went to do service at the Sorensen's and this time we invited Robert Mullins, because he wants us to find him oppurtunities to serve so he can get out of the house. Sister Sorensen was sick so we were just told to build a fire and burn more things and to gather up more bricks and move them over to where they are building a barn. We burned ALOT of wood!! Elder Adam was extremely happy!!! After lunch we visit a less active lady named Patty Thompson she had a bird named Gizmo and from what Elder Adam has told me, that bird is the devils bird. haha! We helped her clip some of his wings and some of his talons! It was crazy! The bird struggled alot! Then we went to visit a member who just got out of the hospital (he had to go to the hospital to have kidney surgery) he seemed to be doing well! :) Then we went to dinner at Cici's Pizza with some members. It wasn't the greatest pizza, Village Pizza is WAY better! Cici's pizza didn't have many toppings on it, I didn't really like that. That is where I found out about Deron Williams being traded, at first I was mad, then I thought more about it and what the Jazz got for him. Then I realized that the Jazz are getting ready to get Jimmer Fredette!!!!! I so happy!!!! After that we went to the church to maybe get a lesson, but no dice. The 2nd councilor in the Bishopric (Brother Hathaway) told us that Kevin and Tasha had gotten into a fight. Tasha wanted to leave, but Kevin said where are you going to go, you have no where else to go. Tasha doesn't really like Joey because he just sits around all day and she got mad at him because he started yelling at the girls. I thought how can you yell when you are deaf? After that we left and since we couldn't think of anything else to do we went tracting, at 8 o'clock at night! It was actually pretty funny! One guy said that he was REALLY busy right now with a tv show. After we left we just laughed! We didn't get any success with it but it helped relieve us of the stress we were under.
Thursday we did weekly planning. Then had a lesson with the Foret's again. Kevin's parents were there visiting so we taught them, and they want to go to church but they can't find a church with deaf people. When Kevin told them we had some every week they decided to come down from Mississippi to check it out. After that we had dinner at the Hathaway's. Then we went to see Brenda Braun and she told us that she has bought a house and she will move in at the end of March. She shared a great testimony about faith in Jesus Christ and how it helped her! I felt the Spirit!
Friday we went to early morning seminary and played a game with them, after we went out to East Milton to visit people out there. We were using Elder Adam's GPS and it told us to go on this dirt road. We did, and we kept going for a few miles then we came to a HUGE clearing area, where alot of trees were being cut down. Then we got to a point where the GPS told us to go straight but we could not see a road! So we followed a log truck outta the area. In the afternoon we went back to teach Askana but this time we brought a member with us who could speak Spanish so that made it alot easier to teach her things! We taught her more about Joseph Smith and the Restoration, we even got her a spanish Book of Mormon! Later that evening we taught the Foret's girls and had dinner there, it was a very interesting dinner. Red cabbage with apples and sausage on rice. I didn't really like the apples part and it would have been better if there was more sausage, but afterwards we decided that since they live on a small budget that next time we aren't going to have dinner with them just so that they can have more for themselves and so they don't have to use up alot of money.
Saturday I got to play basketball again!!!!!!! I was very happy!!!! Pretty much eveything fell through after that except when we went to see a members less active parents. We had a good lesson with them!
And Sunday in Ward Council we again asked them that if in their quoroms and classes they would ask for referrals and after church we talked to the Relief Society President and she had completely forgot to say that and that it was not something they were use to announcing, but we had asked her to do it for the past 3-4 weeks and she forgot every time. That rattled us, then an appointment fell through and Elder Adam got bit by a dog while we were visiting a less active lady, it was a request by one of the councilors. The door was open when we got there and the dogs started barking and she slammed the door and said No Trespassers! She said that she had a No Trespassing sign in her yard but there wasn't. There was a Beware of Dog sign. We got even more rattled, Elder Adam was mad at the dog for biting him. We went to dinner at the Bishops house that evening. And that pretty much did it for us because people weren't answering phones, and nobody was available to have us come over, so we went home and just talked the rest of the night.
Well that's my week. Love you Guys!!!
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