This week contained a lot of changes - some good, some bad,
some relevant, some irrelevant. I guess
you could say that sometimes things happen for the better and sometimes for the
worst or sometimes for reasons unknown.
That being said, after Saturday night’s transfer calls we will still be
working in both the Butterfield and Rivers Crossing Wards. On this coming Wednesday Elder van Sweden
will be going home and I'll be getting Elder Bancroft. He and I were in the same MTC district, but
given the random nature of transfers, I don't know much of what he will be like
- so it will definitely be very interesting.
I have been working on my diet, but this week with all of the changes,
I’m betting I will have more stress than usual, which will drive me to work out
more in the mornings. So, hopefully that
will help with the diet.
We really didn't have much happen this week. Most of the week was spent saying goodbyes
and tying up the loose ends before Elder van Sweden ships out – and lots of contacting.
Monday was a good day.
We played some basketball and hung out with the Zone. It didn’t take long playing basketball before
I pulled a hamstring, which pretty much shut me down. Other than shopping, playing
ball and emailing home we didn't do much on Monday.
Tuesday was a rough day. I my hamstring was still sore, but
that didn't get in the way of the work - it just made everything unbearable. We were still able to work, so we went out and
visited a couple people and then did the street contact thing - basically all
day. We didn't have much success. To
finish off Tuesday we had a decent lesson with M__ on prayer. I say it was only decent because the member we
brought along completely over whelmed her. Poor M___, but we will be meeting with her
this week, so that’s good at least.
Wednesday was an interesting day. It included Elder van Sweden's last district
meeting and it went very well. We worked
on an exercise where we had to teach the restoration lesson in under a
minute. Why would that help us you might
ask? It helps us teach things simply and
clearly. Elder van Sweden gave a really good training on that. Following district meeting we went out and
contact people all day long, again. Basically
anytime or we weren't doing stuff, we were contacting people. So, if I don't
say that we're doing much it was basically because we were doing contacting all
the time we didn’t have lessons or service – which was most of the week.
Thursday was a good day.
It started with service at the C__’s, like we do every Thursday morning.
After service, we did more contacting in
the afternoon, because we really didn't have any appointments. More accurately, the appointments we did
have scheduled fell through. So, we just
contacted until dinner and then we took a decent break because it was so hot.
After dinner, we contacted some more. As much as I hate contacting, it has to
be done when we have an open schedule.
Friday was a good day, which basically consisted of weekly
planning and Elder van Sweden finishing up his ‘My Plan’ program. After transfers, Fridays won't be as fun
because neither of us will have ‘My Plan’ to work on. We will just have weekly
planning, some sporadic lessons and more finding. Yay!
Saturday was a decent day.
We had some service lined up in the morning, but after that some more
lessons fell through, so we did more contacting. We did find a good investigator through a
Book of Mormon request/referral. His
name is B__ and he requested a copy of the Book of Mormon. We will stop by this
week to teach him – or just talk to him to see what he believes and see if he
wants to take the lessons. So, wish us luck on that. Other than that, this week
has been very unsuccessful, mainly because of all of the goodbyes for Elder van
Sweden.
Sunday was a good day at church. We learned about sacrifice and gospel
principles in the River Crossing Ward. It
was a pretty cool lesson. Sunday night
we didn't have a dinner appointment lined up so we stopped by the C___s for
Elder van Sweden and we ended up playing a couple games with the and just
enjoyed being with their family.
I'm sorry I don't have any pictures from this week –
actually I don't have any pictures at all, lol. I will have a couple pictures
to share on Tuesday, so stay tuned. I'm
sorry not much else happened this week, but sometimes that's the life of a
missionary. I'm not exactly sure what
this next transfer will hold, but let's just say I could use some prayers. Thank you for all that you guys do. I love
you and I can't wait to hear from you.
P.S. Missions are hard. It challanges me every day.
Love,
Elder Connor William Dickinson
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