Easter Week

Hello friends and family, hope you all had an amazing Easter, and enjoyed remembering Jesus Christ a little bit more!!

Monday for a district activity we attempted to explode a watermelon with rubber bands, didn't work too well, but we all still had fun!! We were able to meet with Bro. Meadows who is such a sweet guy, just doesn't make it to church because of his wife's sickness... While we were in the gas station we met Jacob, he has a big belief in Christ and asked some really genuine questions! You can really teach people everywhere!!

Tuesdays district council was awesome! It was focused on the Power of the Book of Mormon, ch. 5 in Preach my Gospel! We worked on sharing scriptures in a way that people can understand, and the importance of sharing the love we have for the Book of Mormon. We had a great lesson with Joe, who had really good questions, but wanted to meet with us purely just to learn about the differences between his church and ours. He took a Book of Mormon though, so the spirit will work on him! We had dinner with our second ward bishop who is awesome, then went to the last emotional resilience class that was focused on seeing the improvement made and things we can focus on to continue to help ourselves and others feel more joy, peace, and love from our Heavenly Father!!

Wednesday I was with Elder Echols as usual but we got Elder Williams for the day! We tracted a lot, met a couple nice people, but none that are willing to progress in the gospel. Helped our friend Levon clean out her garage, talking with her and seeing how much she cares for Jesus Christ is amazing! We had an awesome lesson with our friend Elizabeth about the restoration, and she seemed to love it and had great questions we were able to answer!!

Thursday we had a mission zoom focused on stress management, went to a park and met some really nice Jewish people. There are so many Jewish people here, I've never seen anything like it! Had a great dinner with our ward mission leader Bro Barrus and his wife!

Friday we stopped by a lot of less active members that the ward told us to, invited them all to the Easter service and one family came! Had a tech exchange with members in our zone, so that we could learn how to do social media work better, hopefully it helps! Met Sister Brittain in the ward and she was grateful we stopped by and her kids loved having us over!!!

Saturday was full of inviting people to our Easter service! Had a good time going by all our friends inviting them, walking around parks inviting young families, and everyone was nice to us, just seemed like people either don't celebrate Easter or they already had a place to go... but it was fun to talk with them and get to know their beliefs! Went by a widow in the ward who hadn't seen missionaries in over a year and was so happy to see us and visit with us!!

Easter Sunday!!! I really enjoyed both wards Easter services! We had a lot of friends come and enjoy the spirit of the meetings and they connected well with a lot of the members! We got to go over to the Meiks house for Easter dinner. They are amazing! We had a lot of fun with their family and they even gave us Easter baskets! Then we call some of our friends and did some Social media work!!

Dale G. Renlunf said, "The marks in the palms of His hands continually remind Him of you and your circumstances. He ministers to you in all your distress."

It's amazing to remember the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The marks in his palms make it impossible for him to forget us, he doesn't want to and never will, so we can always find peace, comfort and love in all our hard times. Easter is/was a great time to reflect on what Jesus Christ has done for me and what I can do for Him!!!

There's my week, hope you enjoyed yours! Happy April fools day, Happy late Easter, love you all!!!

Pics:

1. Watermelon

2. Lunch

3. Treat/lesson after emotional resilience

4. Fun picture

5-7 Easter

8. District council