Week 95

This is now my 105th week in the mission. I have 1 day left. My last day of proselyting was yesterday. We had two totally awesome lessons.

1st lesson was a 10 o'clock in the morning before church. It was a standard first lesson, but it was perfect. Point for point. Inspired questions. How to Begin Teaching using the last bullet point about baptism. All went perfectly well. 

That was a first for me on my mission when that happened exactly in that way.

Then the last lesson on the day was a first as well. 

This Member family invited 1 family to come and listen to us. This family just had an aunt that died. The Grandmother showed up with the rest of her kids and all the grand-kids too. It was like a family reunion (except one of the sisters was missing because she died in a car crash two weeks ago). There were some 25 people there. We taught all of them the Restoration. It went well. It is hard to teach so many people at a time but we did it. That was the first time I have ever taught such a large group on my mission. All this happened on my last day of proselyting, Totally awesome. Also on Saturday, the day before we got to do a couple hours of service.

On Friday, we had double appointments,  we had to do a split with some of the members to be able to go to both appointments (also a first for me on my mission). When we were waiting for the members to show up on the corner of this street and the other street we were parked next to an old man working on putting the dirt around the new foundation of his fabricated house. He was Hispanic but we had two appointments to get to. So neither of us really noticed. Well, we split with the two

members (which was a first on my mission as well) and all the appointments fell through, everyone else we both went to visit were not able to talk with us at that moment. We ended the split an hour later and we went to our next appointment, which fell through as well. We then realized the missed opportunity we had to do service with that one really old Hispanic guy so we went and offered help. He refused. He only had one shovel. We asked him if he had another. He said he had one at his house. We asked him if he would go get it while we worked on shoveling the dirt. He refused. We asked if he would let us help if we found some shovels ourselves. He said yes. We immediately went to a couple members’ houses we knew had shovels and they let us borrow a couple. We then went back to help him. He was quite surprised. We helped him for 50 min or so. We then returned Saturday morning to help him shovel some more. He did not show up but we still finished filling in the one side of his house with dirt. That took the two of us an hour and a half.