So this week started with a Zone BBQ! It was sweet!
Me and elder Mcdonald, and Elder Dennis came up with it, and then we got
the whole zone to help out. Everyone
brought food and games and we all met in my original area, Texas City. We made hot dogs and had stuff to do
sandwiches along with chips and drinks.
We played football, lacrosse, and even slack lined! Then we ended it with a huge game of
kickball! It all went really well. Everyone in our zone, like all 25 of us, got
a lot closer as friends and got a lot more excited to be missionaries. And now we can take this excitement and
friendship and help each other out a lot more in our own areas and with the
people we teach. We will probably try to
do something like this again in the coming weeks.
And then this week we ended up working on of our most crazy days
with no phone. That meant we could not
contact any investigators or lessons, we couldn’t talk to the other
missionaries (we were supposed to teach a couple people in their areas), and we
could not contact our ward mission leader about our meeting we had that night. So we just had faith that it would all work
out, and it all did... kinda. We went to
the lessons and taught most of them, and when a person cancelled, we were able
to talk to their neighbors and set some other things up.
Then we went to our mission leader’s apartment complex for the
meeting and found out that there was a baby shower where we normally have it. So we went and called him from the gate keypad
box. He was pretty surprised, but we
remembered it went straight to his cell phone so that is all we had. Long story short, we found out where the
meeting was moved to, and the other Elders brought our new phone to the
meeting. Finally we were able to set up
our most important lesson, and we crushed it! And because we went by, they came to church on
Sunday! They are the Palacios family,
but they are not in our area...
But for our area, Ana Chicas is progressing super well. She is reading the Book of Mormon and praying
all the time. The only problem is she
backs out on church every week! So we
need to figure out the problem there. It
is probably because she doesn’t know anyone at church yet so she has no friends
there. So we will just have to focus on
getting members to the lessons with us this week.
And we have been working with 3 kids named Jonathon, Juan, and
Julie Lopez. They are super fun. They are 15, 12, and 10. But because they are young, finding the true
church is not so important to them. So
we just need to work on getting them to a bunch of activities with other kids
their age. Right now, we just go over
and play games and have object lessons with them. But the really good part is their mom is super
supportive of them talking to us! #blessings
Everything here is going by super fast now and this is when I
don’t want it to. The first chunk of my
mission I spent following the lead of some really great missionaries. That’s when we had a lot of success. Then in Port Lavaca, I was in the lead and we
worked really hard, but it wasn’t always in the smartest way. I think I gave it my best, but I still had a
lot missing. Now here, I am in the lead
again, but also with a few great missionaries around me. Now I feel like I am working my hardest,
best, getting the least amount of sleep, having a lot of productive fun, but
that all just makes time go by way too fast.
So now I have got the rest of the time to just progress as much as
possible personally and also with the area.
And now I think I have finally figured out what it takes to be a better
leader and I am doing more with the responsibilities I have, which is super
good.
Love you all!
Elder
Lund
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