We had our
first full week or missionary work in our area this week and it was hectic but
it was great. Tuesday
I went back to Fairview Heights with Elder Smith, and Elder Sims and Elder
Wunderli worked in St Louis Hills. It was a really cool exchange in Fairview
cause it was pretty much a perfect night. We taught Chris who I taught
when I was there before and he was doing really well. We took Ron Mitchell with
us so it was just like old times. I was so excited to see Ron doing so well
again. After that we had another quick stop by with a part member family and
then the end of the night was the best. We went to a members house and it’s a
single older woman and she had been thinking about one of her friends a lot
recently so she took us over to her house and we sat down and taught her and
her son. It was an awesome lesson. They were best friends and trusted each
other so much that this investigator just took everything so well cause she
knew it had helped her friend so much. It was a great lesson.
Wednesday we switched back and I was in St Louis Hills
with Elder Johnson and Elder Wunderli went back to Maryland Heights with Elder
Anderson. Me and Elder Johnson were kind of blind caue I hadn’t really worked
in our area and Elder Johson had served there a few months ago but the area has
completely changed since then so we just pretty much ran around and tried to
see a million people. We talked to a few but it wasn’t the most successful day.
Thankfully, Elder Johnson is awesome and it was just a ton of fun to be with
him.
The
next morning we drove back to Maryland Heights for Thanksgiving. We started off
the day with like 3 hours of basketball with a bunch of other missionaries and
that was a ton of fun. Then we just went to the mission home and watched
football and ate food for the rest of the day. Even though the Raiders are
awful it was still a pretty fun day. I love getting to hang out with the Morgan’s.
Friday we had MLC for the first 6 hours of the day and
then we were with Elder Furlong and Elder Duke for the rest of the day on
exchanges. They live a few hours away so they just met up with us in our area
and all 4 of us stayed there. Saturday
me and Elder Furlong went around and couldn’t find anyone at home. We knocked
on like a million doors and no one was home for some reason. But we ended up
catching a couple of less actives at home that the ward has been trying to get
in contact with forever so that was cool. We went to a baptism that the sisters
were having in our ward later that night and that was really cool too.
Sunday was the best day of the week for us. We went to
church and we had a huge list of people to talk to about potential
investigators and we were able to get most of it figured out. We were
especially trying to get a hold of the Mason family cause they have a couple people
we want to teach. We went by their house and tried calling them and stuff but
we just couldn’t get anything figured out. But at church Brother Mason got
called as a ward missionary so he sat in on our ward correlation meeting after
church and it was so cool. We are going over on Wednesday and we are going to start
teaching his 11 year old son cause he wants him to get baptized so that in a
year they can all get sealed. They also have 2 other people who are good
friends with them who have shown interest in the past so we asked if he would
invite them. It sounds like we should be meeting 3 awesome new
investigators on Wednesday
so we’ll keep our fingers crossed for that.
Troy
Outlaw came to church again with his family. He is the coolest guy ever. His
son is for sure getting baptized on the 14th of December and we are trying to
get through all the commandments and stuff so he can get baptized with him.
Everything with Troy is going super well so far though. We are going to be
going over a few really crucial things this week that will let us know how
solid his baptism is so hopefully everything works out with that.
Sunday after church we had a sweet miracle happen. We
had about an hour and a half before dinner so we drove over to a ladies house
who we had heard a ton about. One of our friends, Elder Anderson who just went
home, taught a lady named Robin in the area that were in now and he just loved
her and always said she was so great and all that stuff. So we got her address
and went to see her a couple times and she was never home. But we caught her at
home this time and she is the nicest person ever!! We have no idea how she isn’t
baptized. Her only concern was not being able to make it to church cause she
rides the bus and she hates asking people for rides. But once we get that
figured out she is good as gold. She loved the first lesson and wants to come
to church. We’re seeing her again on
Wednesday and she wants to feed us her home made mac and cheese
sometime so were pretty excited for that. That just shows you what kind of
person she is. We knew her for about 5 minutes and she was already trying to
get us to come back for a dinner. She is a diamond in the rough. She lives in a
pretty rough part of the city but she is just the sweetest lady ever. We’re
really excited to teach her.
This coming week should just be
more awesome work. We have a few exchanges and lots of full days of missionary
work ahead of us. We’re so excited for all the things that are happening in our
area and we are so thankful for the blessings we have received. We were so lost
for a few days and really didn’t know what to do or how to do it, but we just
went out and worked hard and God put some people in our path. We’re going to
just keep trying to push forward and we know everything’s going to be great!
-Elder Banks
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