This week was pretty slow for our area. We have just dropped most of our investigators and have been doing a lot of finding through the members and out on our bikes.
For our last district meeting, Wednesday, we had some of the sister training leaders come and present a short training on cleaning and maintaining our temples (apartments, cars, etc.). For the rest of the meeting I gave a training on becoming converted. We discussed what a testimony was and what conversion was. Then, we talked about what the Gospel was and our purpose in helping others receive it. The purpose of the training was focusing on how, by being converted ourselves, we can better help our investigators and others we work with become converted to the Savior and His Gospel.
After the meeting I went on an exchange with one of the Spanish elders in the district and served in his area for the day. At the beginning of the exchange, I probably knew about ten words in Spanish, but now I probably know about 30. I know how to give a card to someone who speaks Spanish and how to get their telephone number for them to call the Spanish speaking missionaries. It's pretty fun! In the evening we went to the church to coordinate activities and plans with the members and for their youth activity they were playing volleyball. There were about 20 nonmembers that showed up too!
On Friday evening our Zone leaders came to our apartment to stay the night and help us gut out our apartment. For the first two hours of our day after studies, we did nothing but de-clutter and wipe down everything from top to bottom. It felt really weird when it was all done because it looked like no one even lived in our apartment besides a few desks and some beds.
On Sunday, our Gospel Principles teacher didn't show up, and so one of the members in the class took over and taught the lesson and it was awesome! He use to be an area 70 and he is a very bold and spiritual man. We talked about our heavenly family and what our Heavenly Father wants for us more than anything. During our third hour, he also taught Elders Quorum and that was just as good.
This coming week we will be having interviews with our mission President as well as a Zone Conference up in Tampa. That will be nice seeing that we haven't had either in a while. I hope that all is well for you and that you have a great week!
Love,
Elder Whaley
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| Elder Austin Whaley back from Port Charlotte |
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| Lake Jackson outside of apartment |
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| Elder Austin Whaley |
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| Motivation/Goal board |
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| Doing missionary work at a restaurant |
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| First baptism interview with a lady he started teaching in Port Charlotte (love the photo bomber) |
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| Little Free Library with a Book of Mormon in the front |
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