October 24, 2019

(Elder Petersent)

Monday

               Today has been a good day, we started out our day by getting up at 5:50 and working out until 6:45. We went shopping and then we big chilled at our zone leaders house until we had to be home to receive our pizza that the family that was going to feed us tonight sent us because they had to cancel due to things getting in the way. But they felt bad that they had to cancel so they ordered us dominoes pizza for dinner which was nice of them to do. They went over board when they ordered it though because they sent us two pizzas, a box of cinnamon twists, two salads and finally a 1 litter of root beer as seen in the pictures below.

Tuesday

               Today my companion and I started off the day pretty regularly getting up at 5:50 and working out until around 6:40 we then walked home, had breakfast and went into our daily planning at 8 o'clock we did that for a half hour then did our personal and companionship studies until 10:30. At 1:30 we went and had our additional companionship study then we were busy texting people until 3 or so. We had dinner at a member’s home which is also the home of one of the people that was baptized under the mission. His name is Ash and he is an awesome 9 year old. We then had a member lesson and then we were free for the day.

Wednesday

               We had district council today which lasted from 10:30 to 12:30 it was a good DC I gave a little talk about obedience and how being obedient can bless you. I started out with reading one part of the obedience overview in gospel topics and it says "God gives commandments for our benefit. They are loving instructions for our happiness and for our physical and spiritual well-being." I read that and then after I explained it a little bit I changed it to say "Our Mission President gives us rules for our benefit. They are loving instructions for our happiness and for our physical and spiritual well-being." So I changed it in that way and I explained that sometimes some of the rules that the mission gives us or the mission president gives are hard to follow they are there for OUR benefit not for the mission presidents benefit and not for Gods benefit. That they are there to make us better people and better missionaries. After that we had a service project dinner and then not much else.

Thursday

               Today was a pretty slow day due to just people not being home and such. We had a huddle with Elder Waldner and then we went out to lunch with him. I did some scripture memorization and then our day basically ended when we were done with our YSA ministering visits.

Friday

               Today we had weekly planning and we planned for the next week for what we would be doing and how we can manage to do them. Other than that it has been another pretty boring day because we did not have nearly as much stuff to do as we had hoped. Mainly because they all did not reply or they canceled.

Saturday

               Today our district leader joined our companionship study via video conference. It was a good way for him to evaluate us during his free time as his companion did language study. As the day progressed we had a member appointment who had contacted us to set it up. She is disabled and wanted us read gospel principles with her so that she can understand it better during the winter when she cannot get to church. She lives in a home with non-members so we hope that as we help her grow stronger in the gospel the others will absorb that truth and at some point want to know more. After that we got taken out to dinner by the family who offered to feed us tonight and then after that it was pretty quiet.

Sunday

               Today I had the privilege of speaking in one of the wards that we have stewardship over. I talked about the armor of God and how it helped me in deciding to serve a mission. It was a good experience although as I said before it was a privilege but it was also a horror to speak in front of the ward. Elder Coupe and I managed to make it to 3 wards today for sacrament. After all of those wards we had a correlation meeting with one of our stake presidents and discussed what we were doing in that stake at that time. At around 5 PM we had a dinner appointment and four member visits after that. And then our day basically ended after we did our call ins with our DL.