Monday, January 23, 2017

Week 23 - New Missionary Schedule

We got a new missionary schedule this week. It goes worldwide Wednesday but it's been rolled out at every zone conference this transfer. So we were the last ones to get it. The biggest changes are there are now 10 hours to pday, from 8-6, there's no more nightly planning, and they let us choose what order we do things now. Instead of having to do everything before we leave the apartment, we could go out now and do some service, then come back at a less productive tracting time and do some more. I love it, it puts less stress on the mornings and nights and lets us really build our day around our investigators, not around us.

But this week was a crazy one. It started off Monday when we went on exchanges with the roaming Spanish A.P.  I went with him and elder Webster went with one of the zone leaders who lived in the same apartment as the A.P. We went out and taught a few lessons to their investigators with dates and got in a really good recap lesson of the plan of salvation. Then when we went back to the apartment the companions of the ap and the zl were gone. They both were sick and we stuck in the apartment. We called them and they said they were at the er. So the ap and zl left us and went and spent the time with their companions. So it was just elder Webster and I in the apartment. We went to bed and the others returned at 4:30. So they had permission to sleep in, so elder Webster and I had a very long time to study that morning. And then when they finally got up we just went to an animal shelter and did service until we got picked up. That's pretty much all that happened Tuesday.

Wednesday we had interviews with President and he told us one of us is for sure transfered next week, he just wasnt sure which one yet. So we will find out Saturday, but I could be going to a new area next week so that's fun! That night we finally got in with someone we had tried 6 times before. And she started off with how she was Catholic and didn't think she would ever change, but she likes learning. Then we taught the plan of salvation and blew her mind. She said she's been reading the bom and Bible all week in all the references at the back of the pamphlet, but we will see how it goes with her. I finally got to use my little plan of salvation wood pieces thing, which I'm carrying around with me all the time now. It's really useful.

Thursday we had zone conference, which was awesome and where we learned about the new schedule. We also got trained on how to really focus on teaching the people that are willing to repent and we practiced how to nicely drop people from the teaching pool. Lots of fun haha
Friday we got a reference from the sisters over in the Nashville Spanish ward of investigators who moved into our area, so we went and taught them that night. We taught half the restoration and invited them to be baptized on the 25th of February, and they said yes. The only thing is that they work Sundays so we have to find them a new job. But they are really excited to learn and I can't wait to see them grow.

Saturday we did a whole lot of contacting and tracting. Then we had a lesson with the family Diaz, and finally finished the restoration with them and invited them to be baptized. Victor said yes and then shirley was less sure. But we just gotta keep teaching and working with them.
Yesterday we had lunch with a bunch of members and then went and came in contact with people we hadn't heard from for weeks. Definitely hand of the Lord in all of that. But we got return appointments with all of them.

That's about it for my week. I hope you're all surviving the snow, it's still 70 over here. Which is wierd. Also all the Hispanics are flipping out because trump is in office. We've had a few think we were the trump suicide squad already. It's making things interesting
Love you all!
��Elder Williams��

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Sunday Lunch

Sunday Lunch


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Zone Conference

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