Today has
been nuts. We have been driving missionaries around to new areas and to have
interviews with president and to the airport all morning and it has been nuts.
We have had sooo many missionaries recently who have had to go home because of
physical injury, it’s been so sad. A missionary tore his MCL and had to go home
for surgery today. His companion had to find a new place to serve and it’s been
a headache.
It’s been a really good week
over all. Lots of cool things have happened and we have been super busy. We had
3 days worth of interviews. That filled up a lot of time. We changed it up a
lot though. We had a couple other trainings from sister training leaders and
stuff like that. We played a lot of games that made it fun. Then we stayed in
Champaign and spent a day with them on exchanges. We got to drive up to
Danville which is about 10 minutes away from the Indiana border and went to a
baptism, then I got to go on exchange with Elder Brooks for a few hours. He has
been out for just over 3 months and his companion is brand new. They have had a
ton of success in their area recently and it’s been amazing. They have no idea
what they’re doing haha. But they are soooo happy and they have the Spirit with
them so strong. We went tracting and we had so much success because everyone
wanted to talk to him. He is just so happy and he knows that this is going to
bless other people so he just wants to share it.
One other cool thing that
happened in Champaign was Thursday
night we went to Wal-Mart to buy some food because the zone leaders didn’t have
any food for us and we needed to pick up a few things. We went to the checkout
with like 10 bucks worth of food and after we scanned it all at the self-checkout,
a lady came up to us and said "mind if I butt in real quick?" Mostly
confused but trying to be nice we said ya ok and she swiped her card and said
have a nice day and walked off. At first it was just a really nice gesture that
made us feel good but after I thought about it a little bit I realized what she
had done for us. Definitely more than once on my mission I have had to make an
emergency run to a
Wal-Mart or
something like that and had members call me out about it not being pday and
anything else you can imagine that we were "doing wrong” and this lady
came up and bought our food for us at 9:20 at night on a Thursday. Not a judgmental
thought went through her head, she just knew that we looked exhausted and we
needed some food. I’ll never see her again but I really appreciate what she did
for us.
On Saturday we started out the day by going to Barack Obama
elementary school and helping them build a playground. We all got free shirts
and got to work with a couple hundred other people to put this thing together
and it was a super cool experience.
Sunday we went to church in Maryland Heights
for sacrament meeting then went to one of Elder Wunderli's former wards in St
Peters Missouri and stayed there for the full 3 hours. We got to see a new
elder quorum presidency called and talk to the stake president for a while and
it was a really good day.
I’m
so thankful for all of the blessings that I have seen this transfer. I love
being with Elder Wunderli and we have so many friends that live right around
us. Even when things go terrible all day, we just have so much fun and love the
work that we get to do. I have met so many amazing people recently and I have
been really blessed to be in this mission right now. I love this work and will
talk to you all again soon.
-Elder Banks
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