Week 70

What a neat time I'm having! This week was filled with cool things left and right...

 

Monday we had a great time.  We went to Oakland and then went to hang out with Sister Smith and Jarrett for Halloween, then at 6 we went home and deep cleaned our apartment. 

Tuesday we had exchanges with the Crystal Springs 1st Elders, I went with Elder Castillo. It was a slow day until right at the end, then we met a Less-active family named the Araves, the wifes parents are actually the senior couple in Oakland that I'm friends with named the Robinsons! Crazy! We talked with them for a while and just got to know them. Then that night we drove to Oakland and stayed the night at the Assistants house since we had a meeting there at 8:30 that morning with Elder Nattress of the 70. When he came in and shook our hands it was really funny, He came to shake my hand and he said "How are you feeling Elder?" and I said "I'm not listening" (sorry you'll have to listen to his conference talk if you don't get it). He thought it was hilarious. He is so cool!! He just asked us questions about us and talked about how he ended up being assigned to talk to us.  After the first meeting, all the other missionaries from our Zone and two other zones came in also, and he talked about how we truly teach Christ's Doctrine, it was a powerful meeting. We had a mission leadership council meeting with him after that talking about how we need to seeking the guidance of the spirit the same way for missionaries as we do for investigators. It was great.

Thursday was good too, we ate lunch with Sister Giland, then went to ZLC, then we had three lessons that day! We met with Rick, then went to Tim's house, and then the Samani's had us over to teach their nephews again, they are hilarious. Their names are Evan, Ami, and Voli, I don't know if those are spelled right haha..  But it was awesome!

Friday we planned and prepared to present our stake reports and then went to dinner with the Fijian Elders.

Saturday we had the zone blitz's, I managed to teach a few people in both of the areas we worked in! It was a ton of fun!

Sunday was all meetings.  Church was awesome though, the elders quorum has been discussing the gospel topic essays once a month, and this month was super cool. Lots of intelligent humans. We got to eat dinner with Brother Christensens family though, that was fun, he's our ward mission leader! 

I am content. I feel really good about being in uncomfortable situations and have no problem going and teaching anyone I can about Christ. It's a great feeling to be involved in the work of the Lord, and I encourage everyone to hop on board and start to get involved on their own! I love you all! I actually have pictures today, get ready... 

Love, 

Elder Tolman