Hey y’all!
This week was a little
bit slow but there was still some really great experiences.
First of all we were
able to do a ton of service this week. We had the chance to go and help feed
the homeless at a soup kitchen which is always fun cuz you get to interact with
them a bit and also serve in a capacity that is actually needed and not
something that could be done without. Doing the soup kitchen actually brought
me back to when my family and I would do that some Sundays at the St Anne's soup
kitchen in Ogden. It was a great experience.
Another service we did
was helping a member build part of a fence in his back yard. This one pretty
much consisted of us just digging a bunch of deep holes for fence posts but it
was fun, and we got some fresh banana bread out of the deal so it was totally
worth it - haha.
The last service I want
to mention was just one of those ones that is a good memory but is not that
great in the moment. We had an investigator that was moving, that we scheduled
to help move like three or four times, and he bailed on us every time and tried
to reschedule. But eventually we went and were able to help a little bit one
evening. He led us to a little shed in
his back yard that he wanted us to grab stuff out of. He had not even opened up
this shed for two years, so that gives you a little bit of an idea of what is
going to happen next. We open it up and it is just dusty and gross with some
rat droppings on some of the boxes. He asks us to move the stuff into the house
and then when the next load of the trailer came, to throw it on the trailer. As
we started moving stuff there were huge cockroaches that started appearing and
crawling everywhere. Some of these things I swear were the size of my hand. It
was nasty! But we started killing them and continued moving the boxes until all
of a sudden we found the rat. After that
we stopped and went inside with the boxes we had moved into the house, only to
find that there had been some cockroaches inside the boxes that had escaped and
they were crawling on the walls!! I have no idea how many there were, but it
was tons! We killed all the ones we could find, and all of us, including our
investigator, determined that all the stuff in that shed was useless anyways
and that it was all going to be tossed in the trash. So yeah that was a fun
time finding all the roaches and rats haha.
Anyways on a more
spiritual note we were able to go out with the ward this Sunday for a thing we
called one-by-one ministering, where all the missionaries in our district got
paired up with a member and we went and reached out to less actives to invite
them to church and to a ward activity we are going to have the 5th of May. I got paired with a guy named S and we went
around at tried to find the people on our list. Unfortunately none of the
people on our list were home and/or lived at that address anymore. We did get
to talk to one of their neighbors named T and it was great. When I mentioned I was
from Utah he started talking to me about how the Jazz won their game this
weekend, and how they seem to be doing pretty dang good. Eventually our
conversation lead into us inviting him to the ward activity, and him saying we
could come by sometime to teach him a little bit more about our church
and what we believe. So it was fun.
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