Walk Day, Meetings and District Council

Hello friends and family, I hope you had an amazing week and are enjoying the fall colors!!! 

Wednesday: Preparation day was awesome! I played some 2 hand touch rugby as well as some football which was really fun! Then I also got to play sand volleyball which was a blast!! In the evening, we just stopped by a bunch of people that had been contacted in the past. 

Thursday: Our mission had a great zoom about supporting each other as companions and after that we went and stopped by our friend Gary and he is still doing well and preparing for baptism on the 21st, lets hope that the date stays!!!! We helped a lady move some things around her house with the other Elders. Then we met Anthony who is really cool and has a Book of Mormon and we'll be stopping by him tonight to see what he thinks! 

Friday: We had a service in the morning sorting food and that felt a little tedious , but it was nice to help out!! In the evening we went to have a pass off lesson with the Hermana's and we were walking around before and talked to a hispanic man named Eutolio, and they showed up just in time to start teaching him and he is interested!! While they were teaching him we went and talked to a man named Jimmy who has a  young family and wants to learn about the Plan of Salvation!

Saturday: Walk day!!! We have one day a transfer when we park the cars and just strickly walk to save some mileage on the cars. It was also an exchange day and I was with Elder Merrill! We walked a lot and talked to a lot of people on the street, but none were very interested. Until we got into an apartment complex. We met Chris, who wants to find a new Christian church and Adriana who spoke Spanish, but I was able to kind of explain the Plan of Salvation and get her number so the Spanish Elders can teach her! 

Sunday: This Sunday was full of meetings. We had a correlation meeting with our ward before Sacrament, then our Sacrament meeting was great, lots of amazing testimonies! Then we had a stake correlation meeting, and that was the end of the meetings! We were also able to meet with the Warnes and had an awesome time with them!!! Then we got to hear the new missionaries bear their testimonies and that made me think of when I came in, which feels like just yesterday! 

Monday: District Council was really good. We focused on helping our friends make and keep committments that prepare them for baptism. We also talked about the importance of The Spirit in deciding what the committment should be. Then we had a great lesson with our friend Karen who now has a Book of Mormon and said she will be reading it!! 

Tuesday: We stopped by a bunch of our friends in the morning, but not a lot of them were home.... So we decided to go throughout parking lots and talked to some peeps who were too busy to talk.... Then we had service passing out food, which is always nice to see the smiles on peoples faces! We messaged a lot of people on Facebook! 

I studied  President Dallin H Oaks' talk from this last conference and I love this quote: 

"It is not even enough to be convinced of the gospel; we must act so that we are converted by it. In contrast to other preaching, which teaches us to know something, the gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to become something"

Everything we do in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is to help us become who Christ wants us to become!!

Hope you all have the best week!!! 

Pics: 

1. Elder Merrill 

2-3. Pretty sunsets 

4. Halloween costume