This week was awesome! We had a great week! We have been busy busy busy!
Tuesday- We drove to monroe district meeting which was in atmore. A solid hour drive. I was so tired of driving I made Elder Southway drive home haha. We got home and I was just exhausted. I've been feeling like sick off and on this past few weeks. My body just like shut down and I just passed out. I guess i've been just go go go that my body was like, NOPE not today haha. So I get up and we go down to the pier and contact some people and they were really cool. They didn't seem really interested but still shared a card with them. We then grabbed some Chick fil a and went to our investigators football game. We saw the cutest thing haha. So our investigator is like 12 and at his football game they had these cheerleaders there that are like 7 years old but it was just crazy to see them cheering like they were in high school haha. After his game we had to rush to the church to play basketball. We usually have a big group of people come. Tonight we had like 14 non members playing which was awesome. Except for the part when one of them was playing really tight defense and they started mouthing off to each other and then one of them swung at this guy named "shooter". So they started getting all mad and saying they are going to fight so another member and I had to push the two people apart and take them out. They finally cooled off but I just told everyone if this happens again we are gonna cancel basketball and everyone is gonna leave. So after all that we all started playing again and everyone was fine and started having a good time. Everyone wanted me to dunk on someone but i'm not trying to break a leg and get sent home hahaha. Overall today was a pretty long day but was fun.
Wednesday- MIRACLES!!!! Today our investigator texted us back. After losing contact with her for over a month. She said that she was praying last night just on her knees asking for help and we texted her. She knew that she needs to meet with us. We met with her today at 9:30am and had a great conversation with her and lesson. We had a member present and they connected really well. She told us that her family just really didn't like mormons but had all this false information about mormons so I mean if I had that Idea of mormons I wouldn't like us either but thats all false. She said that she feels like God keeps directing her to us. She said I don't care what my family says I want to come to church and read the Book of Mormon. It was just so awesome to see that fire in her again! After having an awesome lesson with her we went out to eat then came back and went looking for another apartment. Currently we are in a one bedroom apartment and oh my this place is so small and we have so much supplies for our zone. So we finally were able to find a 2 bed and 2 bath apartment in the same complex which was nice. Then we went over to Brother Mitchell's house to teach his kids who are getting baptized this sunday. Then the district leader interviewed them and they are all good to go for sunday! We are super excited for them! We went out to eat with the foley Elders after and got some mexican food which was pretty good. Then we went home and went straight to bed! I was exhausted.
Thursday- Today we just did our normal routine we went to the gym, came home, got ready, then did our studies.We had to run a few errands today and then we went to the church to get ready for the meeting we were holding with all the District Leaders from our zone. Its called a District Leadership Council (DLC), Where we relay all the information we received from MLC. So then we had the meeting and the council went really well. We are excited for some of the things we will be focusing on in our zone. Especially with Light The World campaign thats going to be starting soon! But after the meeting we went to our investigators house where she fed about 10 missionaries! She had like half of our zone at her house. She Loves us missionaries and fed us all like a thanksgiving dinner. It was awesome! We do a lot of Family History with her and she just loves it. She's so funny, she was talking to the missionaries in mobile about us and she was like "Yes, I love Brother Southway, and Father Graham". hahhahaa She called me Father Graham, I've never laughed so hard! hahaha I quickly fixed that hhaha. She's a lot older but she is so sweet to us. After having dinner with her we rushed to the church for Basketball. I love playing basketball with all these young guys cause it keeps my butt in shape haha. The only bad thing is that missionaries can only play half court... The court is just like our court back home where it's super small. Not a regular full size court. SO its already small enough to play full court let alone half court. Everyone isn't too happy about that which sucks because we have about 14 non members who come and play and its justs cool to like get to know them. But I heard them talking about going somewhere else to play... SO i'm gonna try to see if I can play full court anyways because our full court is like a regular sizes half court. Wish me luck! After we got done playing I went home and Knocked out!
Friday- Today we got up and went to Brother Palmers house and helped him move some stuff for a few hours. Then we drove about an hour and a half to chatom Alabama to pick up a washer and dryer. Then on saturday we have to deliver it to Fort walton beach which is like 2 to 2 1/2 hour drive one way. So yay more driving haha. Today is supposed to be our "no drive day" So the entire mission is supposed to be on bikes or just walking. But our mission office had us go get that washer and dryer today so we had to drive... Which sucked because I am sick of being in a car haha. So luckily we got back around 3 pm. Then we quickly got ready and started walking around 4:30pm. The sun goes down at like 5 here. So we got to walk in the dark all the way to a members home. I think we walked like 6 miles. After eating with them he took us to a less active's home and we got to meet him and he was so funny and awesome. After spending time with him he took us home.
Saturday- Today we got up and went over to Daphne High School and played football with a group of people and missionaries. Which was a lot of fun. Then we had a conference call with all the missionaries in our zone. Then we drove all the way to fort walton beach florida. Delivered the washer and dryer and drove all the way back to daphne. Then we went out to eat for dinner and Alabama was playing Mississippi and Alabama fans were everywhere. It was funny cause everyone was screaming ROLL TIDE!!
Sunday- Our investigator came to church! I was so excited!! The only thing that happened was 2 minutes before Gospel Principles class we were told we were teaching it. So Then we have to try to teach a lesson we have never read. So that was stressful but to make it a little worse a member starts asking some like DEEP DEEP Doctrine questions to us... As we are like deer in headlights we tried to save the class. Our investigator was like what? I am so confused. I totally thought we were going to lose her but she stayed and she told us she is excited to meet with us again. So i'm grateful for that and i'm glad she stayed for the rest of church. SO I had a little heart attack. On top of that we had a baptism right after church. So two of our investigators Adin and Lyla got baptized and it was an awesome baptism. Ill include the pictures! Then later we got transfer news. My companion Elder Southway got Transferred to Destin Florida to be a Zone Leader there. I Am staying here and my new companion is Elder Burningham! Him and I served around each other in pensacola. He is the one I was with when we got the knife pulled on us. hahahha
Monday- We got up and made phone calls to all the missionaries telling them if they are staying or if they are going. Which is always fun to do! Later today we around 2 my time we are going to go boxing with a member. He teaches people how to box so that will be fun!
Sorry it was such a long email today! But I love yall so much! Thank you for all the love and support it means everything to me! I hope yall have a great week!
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