Good morning, everyone! The world says hello!
This week has been pretty incredible! It started off that we made salsa at Becky's (Becky's an investigator, she's one of the grandma's that us missionaries adopt while we're here). Then, we had the Bible Study the next day. That was awesome, we talked about Christ teaching the Samaritan woman at the well, it was really good! We went to a relief society activity this week, bread making, and we had nine sisters there! I know, most of you are thinking, "whoop-dee-doo, nine women there, congrats" but only three were active members, one less-active, and five non-members! FIVE. Needless to say, we were pretty stoked! As part of that, one of the active members is moving to Utah, and she was cleaning out her house so she brought some stuff to give away to whoever wanted it... Becky decided to take a doll... Long story short, her name is Daisy Dial and I am now a single father. How do you like our family picture? It was pretty impromptu, they didn't even let me get up from my chair. XD (Don't worry, Daisy is in the care of her adopted great-grandma, she's doing fine.)
On Friday, my companion decided to take a challenge that our zone leader gave... He ate a whole jar of peanut butter for lunch. That picture is him, with how much peanut butter he would put on the spoon at one time. What was his prize for doing this gargantuan task?
A twinkie. He won a twinkie. (He doesn't even like twinkies, so his victory tasted pretty good to me. XD)
With today being Pioneer Day, they both decided to have branch activities to celebrate... last Saturday. We were in Laguna from 11-2, then we helped clean up, to go to To'hajiilee and help set up for theirs from 4-7, then we helped clean that up. It was a lot of fun, but pretty tiring being outside for the better part of eight straight hours. The fun part was that To'hajiilee's was a basketball fun day, because the concrete of the basketball court outside got redone, so we played basketball with some kids for two hours (from about 5-7pm), in our proselyting clothes, but tennis shoes instead.
Then, yesterday we gave talks in To'hajiilee branch, it was pretty good! We were given our topics/stories to speak on, so we prepared talks... and then we get there, and the member of the branch presidency who asked us to talk says something like this, "The missionaries are our speakers today, and they're going to share with us more about pioneers through the topics they were given." -_- Elder Cornelison and I: "... Hey, Elder, do you know how pioneers fit into my talk??" There were some last minute preparations made, that's for sure. XD
Don't ever give up, Jesus Christ has never given up hope in you, so don't ever give up hope in yourself!
Te whanaunga mo ake tonu!
Elder Eli James Dial
This week has been pretty incredible! It started off that we made salsa at Becky's (Becky's an investigator, she's one of the grandma's that us missionaries adopt while we're here). Then, we had the Bible Study the next day. That was awesome, we talked about Christ teaching the Samaritan woman at the well, it was really good! We went to a relief society activity this week, bread making, and we had nine sisters there! I know, most of you are thinking, "whoop-dee-doo, nine women there, congrats" but only three were active members, one less-active, and five non-members! FIVE. Needless to say, we were pretty stoked! As part of that, one of the active members is moving to Utah, and she was cleaning out her house so she brought some stuff to give away to whoever wanted it... Becky decided to take a doll... Long story short, her name is Daisy Dial and I am now a single father. How do you like our family picture? It was pretty impromptu, they didn't even let me get up from my chair. XD (Don't worry, Daisy is in the care of her adopted great-grandma, she's doing fine.)
On Friday, my companion decided to take a challenge that our zone leader gave... He ate a whole jar of peanut butter for lunch. That picture is him, with how much peanut butter he would put on the spoon at one time. What was his prize for doing this gargantuan task?
A twinkie. He won a twinkie. (He doesn't even like twinkies, so his victory tasted pretty good to me. XD)
With today being Pioneer Day, they both decided to have branch activities to celebrate... last Saturday. We were in Laguna from 11-2, then we helped clean up, to go to To'hajiilee and help set up for theirs from 4-7, then we helped clean that up. It was a lot of fun, but pretty tiring being outside for the better part of eight straight hours. The fun part was that To'hajiilee's was a basketball fun day, because the concrete of the basketball court outside got redone, so we played basketball with some kids for two hours (from about 5-7pm), in our proselyting clothes, but tennis shoes instead.
Then, yesterday we gave talks in To'hajiilee branch, it was pretty good! We were given our topics/stories to speak on, so we prepared talks... and then we get there, and the member of the branch presidency who asked us to talk says something like this, "The missionaries are our speakers today, and they're going to share with us more about pioneers through the topics they were given." -_- Elder Cornelison and I: "... Hey, Elder, do you know how pioneers fit into my talk??" There were some last minute preparations made, that's for sure. XD
Don't ever give up, Jesus Christ has never given up hope in you, so don't ever give up hope in yourself!
Te whanaunga mo ake tonu!
Elder Eli James Dial
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