Well it was a
good week for the mission but as for the work in our area it was pretty awful.
We had a really busy week just getting everything done that we needed to. Monday and Tuesday we
played Santa and just drove everyone packages around to their zone leaders so
people could have their presents for Christmas. It made a lot of missionaries
happy so that was fun. Christmas Eve we went to the Morgan’s and hung out
there. Their son Danny was there and of course Anna was there so me and Elder
Wunderli had a fun day with them. Elder Jones and Elder Rausch were there with
us too so it was a fun night. Christmas day we spent the whole day at the
Morgan’s again and pretty much just watched basketball. It was a great day
until the Heat won but even after that it was still fun.
Thursday we had a 5 hour meeting with President
Morgan just planning out MLC which was the next day. Then Friday we had a 6 hour
meeting turn into a 7 1/2 hour meeting so we sat around a lot this week. We
accomplished a ton and got a lot of really important things decided so it was a
good couple days. Saturday
we had a few lessons planned out and all of them bailed so we pretty much just
drove around and tried to see a million people. Unfortunately none of them were
home and when we tracted around their houses no one was home either so pretty
much we spent endless hours just knocking on empty doors. It should have been
an awful day but we just kept working and every time an appointment canceled we
just kept going and thankfully Elder Wunderli stayed happy the whole time and
by time it was 9:00 we felt like we had had a really good day. It was a lot of
hard work but we felt really good for doing it.
Sunday went a lot better than the rest of
the week thankfully. One really cool thing happened when we went to go see a
lady in the ward named Sister Huston. She is the funniest African lady and she
is amazing. We talked a little bit about her neighbors that she has been
working with and she told us we should just go over and try talking to them. We
walked up to their front door and they all pulled up and asked who we were and
about 5 seconds later let us in. They were so nice and it took us a little by
surprise. We weren’t sure exactly what to say so we just asked them if they
would take the lessons and the mom said they would love to. She called her
husband and set up a time for us to come over with her and her husband and
their 3 kids so hopefully we can have a good meeting with them on Saturday.
This weekend
we had 21 baptisms with 2 more coming up on Tuesday so it was a really, really
good weekend. With all the baptisms that happened this weekend it puts our year-end
total at 443. So we fell a little bit short of our goal. But we still know that
it was the perfect goal cause if we had set it at anything else we probably wouldn’t
have pushed as hard as we did and there would have been a few people that didn’t
get baptized. And we had 7 extra baptisms last year so it all totals out to
perfect haha. It was a great week and a great year. We have our goal set up for
next year and I’m so excited for it! The mission is going to be so excited. It hasn’t
been announced yet so I’ll tell you next week. But hopefully 2014 is just as
great as 2013 has been!
-Elder Banks
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