SO this week seemed super long when it was happening but now that it is over looking back it went by in a breeze. Super weird the way time flows on the miss.
Anyway, Monday night we had FHE with the YSA branch which is always interesting, we had an investigator there who has a baptismal date but its set for January (I think I already said this) but she made a super spiritual comment on something I cant remember but then it got all silent and then one sister from the ward just shouts "Gurl we need to dunk you already!" it was super funny/awkward but it was all good.
Tuesday was zone meeting so that took up most of the day, it was pretty fun though because one of the trainings was a competition that I don't want to get into details about because it was super missionary-y and complicated but obvi our team won because my trainer E. Jennings knows his scriptures like the back of his freakishly small hand.
Wednesday was awesome at first because we went to the food bank again. Its gotten to the point where all the missionaries just walk out with bags of food because they force it upon us, I guess a ton of it goes bad so all the volunteers take a bunch home. It's super convenient because we get all this canned fruit, oh which reminds me, E. Jennings taught me this sick trick where you eat all the fruit then you freeze the juice in a bowl and eat it with a spoon and its like this peach juice popsicle thing. Super good. Later on Wednesday though we had a lesson with Joyce again because her baptism was set up for this upcoming Saturday (the 21st) and we only had one lesson left. Then she drops this bombshell were her dad wont let her get baptized so that kinda sucks. We haven't seen her since and are trying to meet with the whole fam to see whats up.
Thursday was super slow, we just knocked LA doors until we were able to meet with the Gonzalez fam. They are the ones with 6 kids under 11 years old. Anyway we had a super good lesson and the mom said she feels calm and has noticed a change in the kids since we started teaching them but they still haven't come to church... #thestruggleisreal
Friday is supposed to be our weekly planning day but we actually ended up doing 7 hours of service and getting fed a ton of food. In the morning we helped brother Christensen with his patio some more and he fed us lunch. We were eating out when the Paris attacks happened which was super crazy.
In between lunch and our next service project we only had time to meet with one person so proselyting-wise we thought it would be a bad day. Our service at night was we ran a snack shack at a high-school football game because the people who ran it were pretty much all LDS. But we ended up talking to a bunch of people about the church and some other elders got a few potentials from that night.
Saturday was cool because we have a referral we were trying to contact for a while and she actually ended up contacting us which is unheard of so that was cool, we will hopefully see her this week. We also got to meet with a YSA eternigator who keeps making the excuse of school to not see us (we all know that he doesn't actually have that much work) but he is super stubborn and skeptical about everything. Hopefully we can make some progress.
Sunday was cool because we had an experience with one of our main focus investigators. Daisy (the investigator who came to FHE) set the date back way far because her dad doesn't know she is taking the lessons and she is scared he wouldn't like it (her mom knows) but then this Sunday her dad asked her if she was going to a different church and planned to get baptized and he was ok with it which was cool! but then it ended up her mom didn't want her to be baptized so that was a weird flip-flop situation. It was cool (apart from the mother) because it was an answer to a fast that we all had included on fast Sunday. A senior couple in the family ward had their farewell yesterday, they are going to be welfare missionaries in Texas, canning peanut butter, which is kinda weird but also super cool. They were super nice to us though and always cracked jokes in ward council about how much everyone got off topic.
Its crazy that its pretty much been 3 months already, only one more p-day this transfer!
Its gone by crazy fast for me so far, already 3 months out? it seems like maybe 3 weeks ago you guys dropped me off. I think its because we are constantly working, when we have not-so-busy days its definetly slow. I hope I get transfered, low-key I want some adventure and I want to bike, but the YSA is also fun and all the YSA missionaries need cars so its kind of a double edged sword thing.
Dang I miss all of the friends and fam from calgary. Also the snow, its definitely feeling better here but I really need to see some snow.
I love all you guys, have a good week!
Elder Ockey
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