Monday

Mission is great!!! 2/12/18

Hello Family and Friends! 

Monday- We were just busy with going to the beach. We got stuck in massive traffic. The beach was so much fun though! Elder southway got us all lunch. We played volleyball in destin. Then we finally came home. We didnt have a lot of time to shower and change to get to our meal appointment. But we got to the base and usually it takes like 5 min to get a pass. Nope not today it took an hour! so thats why I wasnt able to send out a weekly last week! We got back super late.

Tuesday- We had a great District meeting! It was sad saying goodbye to a lot of the missionaries! After District meeting we went and packed. We went and saw some members so Elder Johnson could say goodbye because hes leaving to Tallahassee. We had to leave at like 4pm but we didnt leave until 4:30. So we didnt get to Tallahassee until 8:30 pm. We stayed with the Assistants that night. 

Wednesday- Got up super early to be at a training meeting with President smith at 7amfor all the missionaries who are training. That meeting was really good. not going to lie im kinda nervous now training but I know as I just work hard and show him the ropes Ill be good. So after that meeting we went into the chapel. All the new missionaries came in and I said the opening prayer and then President Smith had all of us trainers stand up and say one thing about our mission and its culture. So I told all the new missionaries that here in the FTM we are FTM Missionaries which means we are Full Time Missionaries. No matter where we go, what we are doing, we are sharing the gospel.  After all that they announced one by one each area and the trainer and then who we are training. So they called me and said I will be training Elder Bowman so we got up and hugged and then sat down. Im super excited to train!!

Thursday- Today we got up and did service for a part member family in the ward. They have a huge yard and lots of trees so we raked leaves all day. Literally from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. We had like sooo many bags of leaves it was crazy! After we ate at stubbys and then went and played basketball at the church with some non members! It was awesome! 

Friday- We went to the meridian and hung out with the older people there. It made me miss my grandparents! haha After we ate lunch and went to the church for Family History that we hold every friday from 12-2pm. We were able to help a member put in all his memories of his father on his dads page. He was super happy because hes been trying for a while! After I showed Elder Bowman how to do his first weekly planning! It was long but it was good! After we went to a less actives home but they told us to come back another time. We decided to tract after that and we got some interesting people we talked to haha. It was all good though! After we had dinner with a part member family and it was great! We shared an awesome lesson with all their kids! They have a couple little girls ages 10 and under and they like are hardcore crushing on my companion and I haha its so funny. They gave us like valentines day stickers haha. We are eating with them tomorrow as well. After their home we went and did some companionship study to finish off the night.

Saturday- Today we had volleyball at the park and it was fun. It was raining like all day the night before so the courts were kinda muddy. Poor sister was running after the ball and slipped and landed right in the puddle. I felt so bad but she took it like a champ! After we did some 12 week which is a program us trainers get to do with our trainees. Helps them learn basic principles of missionary work. It has us focus on different things the new missionary hast to do each week. So that was good. We then decided to just go through our area book to see if anyone has  been prepared to receive the gospel. We then went and contacted those people and tracted the houses around them! We had some awesome people we talked to. We are gonna go to another bible study next week! 

Sunday- A lot happened! Church was really good! We had fast and testimony meeting! So some of our non members bore their testimony! It was so awesome! Basically highlight of our day! Other than that we tracted in the rain for hours! Good day!

I love you all so much! Im trying to be better at writing everyone but I love you all! Have a great week! And HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!

Love, 
Elder Graham 

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