Hello everyone! This week was another interesting one over here in DC! Here's a little bit of what happened:
Tuesday:
Today we had 2 member visits (through WhatsApp of course) and we tried to have Elder Krogh lead them to get him to use a bit more Spanish and it turned out well thank goodness. Later tonight we taught Tomas and Lesli - a couple that we were teaching 7 months ago when I was in this area the first time - and we talked about the Plan of Salvation and eternal marraige and it turned out very well! After the lesson, Tomas said he would be willing to chang his whole life around in order to live with his family forever. As a commitment, we invited them to read together "The Family A Proclamation to the World" that we would send them after the call. I'm excited to see what they learned from it!
Wednesday:
As the zone leaders, we were told we should attend the district councils of all the districts in our zone, so this week we went to the other district's council. Unfortunately, it turns out that that district leader was not holding down the fort that well, but we were able to help him with leading the meeting this time and it turned out ok. The best part was that we were able to build friendships and trust and motivate the people in our zone that we don't know as well. That's probably my favorite part of being a zone leader is meeting all the missionaries and having a big focus on motivating the zone!
Thursday:
We did service again at the the Habitat for Humanity with all the smoking workers and I left with a huge headache again :(
Today we did exchanges with one of the three APs, Elder Martin! He is a great guy and is amazing at icebreaker conversations and because of him we found a new friend that we have now had 2 lessons with!!! Because of the fact that we are already a trio, we figured that when AP Martin came, we should split into 2 different groups of two and because of that we could hypothetically do 12 lessons in three hours, however we only managed to schedule around 7 that night and only 4 happened. One was with Rolando and he had really good questions about sealing and asked us who President Nelson would be with after this life because he has been sealed to 2 people... We read a bit in Doctrine and Covenants to answer his question, and then gave his an assignment to listen to the talk by Dallin H Oaks in Oct. 2019 called "Trust in God" and I think that will help him a lot. Rlando is a friend that we met a few months back and he has already FINISHED the Book of Mormon and knows it is true. However unfortunately his wife is not on the same page as him and has convinced him that he needs to read the bible now to be able to make an informed desicion on which church to be baptized in (she goes to a different one). He has already read the entire New Testament and he was telling us how now he just needs to finish the Old Testament but we managed to convince him that reading the Doctrine and Covenants would be of much more benefit because he would find answers to many of his questions while reading the Old Testament will likely cause more questions to arise whose answers are in the Doctrine and Covenants :) FYI if anyone needs to explain why the Old Testament can be confusing I refer you to 2 Corinthians 3:14. That "veil" was taken away in Christ for the belivers in Paul's day and today that "veil" is taken away by Christ through Joseph Smith in the Doctrine and Covenants. AWESOME! Anyways we suggested the 2021 Come follow me to Rolando because it is Doctrine and Covenants this year!!!
Friday:
Today we did my favorite service which is the Warehouse at the Prince William County Food rescue task force. It was so fun and we basically restacked pallets and drove around the powered pallet jacks, did an inventory of the entire warehouse and cleaned up a lot. At one point they needed us to take off these papers that were on eack pallet, except that all the pallets were so close to each other that is was impossible to walk between them, and it would take to long to take them all out, so what we did was "swim" over the top of the pallets evenly distributing our weight between the boxes to not squish them :)
We also had our Book of Mormon institute class today and that was incredible as always. The Book of Mormon is awesome. Don't listen to anything anyone else says.
Saturday:
I forgot what happened because there was no time to write in my journal today... But I remember it being really productive with tons of contacts and we had a spontaneous lesson with Johnathan a guy our age who is well versed in the Bible! He's really cool. Also today I scheduled my first lesson with someone who I found on Facebook and started a conversation with! That lesson will be Monday night, so sadly you won't hear about that til next week.
Sunday:
Today was pretty crazy because we had Correlation at 8pm and then the Zoom MLC at 9 and then we had to drive Elder Streiff to the Fairfax Elder's apartment because he has to catch a flight that leaves at 6 am to SLC so that he can sign some papers for his Visa. He will be back Tuesday Morning. But the drive to the Fairfax Elders' apartment is 30 min away and so tonight we didn't go to bed until like 11:30
Today:
We deep cleaned the house in the morning and did the groceries and then we had a group activity at Signal Hill Park which was super fun! There were 4 sisters and 5 Elders in the activity and we played ultimate football, kicked a soccerball around, played basketball a bit and then they played Monopoly Deal on the one of the tennis courts while Elder Hyatt and I played tennis on the other one, except we were using pickleball paddles :) it was so fun, haha! Later we went to Walmart to get the rest of our groceries and I got a mini little canvas and some acrylic paint and I'm going to try to paint something really cool (basically a mix of the DC and Costa Rica Flag with my missionary nametag and its gonna be awesome)
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