The first story happened last Monday
night at the YSA FHE. We were playing dodge ball and it came down to Me, Elder
Dineheart, and Elder Nelsen on a team against about 18 people on the other team,
ya our team was struggling a little bit! ha-ha
Anyways, they were all making fun of us saying things like "Well, let’s
see if they really are protected!" and things like that. We taught them
the meaning of faith (and humility)! Ha-ha Elder Nelsen ran and did a crazy move and got
three people out really fast but on the last one he took a shot to chest and
was out! That left me and Elder Dineheart against about 15 people! So we decided
to go crazy! Long story short, after much throwing, hitting, yelling, and
dodging, the two of us worked together and got every single one of them out! We
then proceeded to gloat and laugh at them for their lack of faith! We'll get
our humility lesson sometime soon! I thought it was funny and I felt awesome afterwards
so I thought I would share! Ha-ha Elder Dineheart is now going to New Mexico to
be a Zone Leader and I am rather upset with that! Ha-ha
We also had exchanges again this week
and I went with Elder Call into the Palo Verde Ward! It was one of the best
days ever! We worked our butts off and went like crazy! We had lots of crazy
things happen that turned into some funny stories and we also had some great
success! We ended up getting them two new investigators. One of them that we had a good first lesson
with, have already committed to baptism and are super excited about it! We
also had dinner with the Stake President and his awesome family. After
dinner, he and his wife came with us to the Paramos family. (See email from
last week, it was the same less active family that we had a good
lesson/experience with them) Once again we had another great lesson. It was a lesson with us, the stake
president and his wife, and the two of them! It was one of the
greatest experiences ever! The Spirit and a feeling of love was so strong
there! Results of that lesson are fantastic! The whole family went to church
on Sunday. Way cool thing, the night after the exchange, Elder Kim and
Elder Call went over again and two of the children (not members, 9 and 13)
told them that they want to be baptized now! It was so wonderful! It is
moments like these that make the mission worth all the bad stuff!
That night we also had a district
party! We decided to have a little fun because we were all doing so well! We
went over to a park and played glow in the dark Frisbee! Elder Kim has a
Frisbee that has lights in it and we all had glow sticks on us! It was so much
fun! I really loved this district! I can't decide if this was my favorite
district or last transfer was my favorite! I loved them both! I am sad to see
them leave now; with transfers today we are losing both Sister Waters and
Sister Hallett and Elder Call! Hopefully this new district will be just as fun
and hardworking! This district was great and in the three areas of my district
this week we got 12 new investigators! That is huge!! And all of them are
awesome!
The best part of this week is what
happened in Elder Nelson and I’s finding efforts! We found 2 new FAMILIES this
week! It is wonderful! One is a deaf women, her three (hearing) kids, and
her fiancé (also hearing but can sign like the kids!)! The other is a family of
two deaf parents, three deaf children and one hearing child! It is wonderful!
They are so nice and really, really good potentials! We are excited to start
teaching them! It will be hard to contact them but we are expecting great
things!
Sadly, this will be a short email
due to transfers and us needing to go pick up other missionaries! But I hope
that your week was as great as mine!!
Elder Banner
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