Last week for P-day I went with the Mall to hang out with Elder Rushton mainly. A couple other missionaries came. I was trying to repair some of the damage that happened. He thought we were trying to blitz his area the other day to try to reach a quota. When really we just had nothing to do that day and wanted to help them find some people to teach.
It was fun. We went to Wendy's and they had smoke coming out of the flower bed. At first they thought it was a cigarette someone threw. They poured some water on it. Then a lady came in flipping out. Yelling at the employees because they were ignoring a fire. It was hilarious. You could barely see any smoke. They poured some more water on it. Then they started to move stuff around and it turns out it's an electrical fire from the Exit sign. By this time the crazy lady had called the fire department and the huge firetruck came. We left but I'm sure the fire department did nothing. They just dug out the wires and snipped them or poured water or whatever. The lady was just crazy.
Tuesday I went on exchanges with Elder Eastman. I was in Kenmore. It was cool to be back in one of my old areas. We just were contacting a bunch of Less Active Members and had a lesson with one Less Active Member. He thought he had an 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon that belonged to one of the first 6 members of the Church. It looked like the 2nd edition Book of Mormon and the name was supposedly the granddaughter of one of the first members of the Church. Still cool nonetheless.
Wednesday we ended up pretty much spending the whole day planning out our Zone Meeting. We made these little cards that people could put in the front of their scriptures that has a list of possible chapters to leave people to read and ponder about until the next meeting. To help encourage missionaries to make sure they are leaving specific reading assignments. Those took forever because of limited computer access. Plus Elder Whatcott wanted to add people's favorite scriptures on the Atonement on the other side of the card. I'm not sure why... But he did. So we did. It took a while to get missionaries to text us back those scriptures. Then the printers were being really painful and printing the backside crooked. So they weren't lining up. We ended up going to Fed Ex Office store and printing them there and laminating them there. They still were slightly crooked but we were able to make them look good without it looking too obvious. We also got our #BuffNorth Shirts done and handed those out at Zone Meeting. As well as we made a 6 page pdf with quotes that missionaries can use as a resource for Facebook posts when we get back on Facebook.
We played Jeopardy for our training. That way we could cover a bunch of topics. The categories were iPad, Internet Proselyting, PMG, teaching and mystery. The mystery was minute to win it games. Soo funny! We did wrapping someone up in paper towels, a game of pulling out as many tissues out of the tissue box as quick as you can with one hand, arm wrestling (the contestants ended up being the sister missionaries) and how long you can hold a yoga pose. I got a great laugh out of those. People seemed to like it and even mentioned that it helped remind them of teaching/PMG/iPad things in a good way.
After Jeopardy we had zone council. Went pretty decently. We got some good feedback. Now our goals for the zone will be a zone goal (ie how many contacts our zone can get this week rather than individual areas). Things like that.
Went street contacting down Elmwood in Buffalo. Met John Lickers the Native American hobo. Met a sick atheist guy named Ryan that was super open and willing to listen. Handed out two Book of Mormons and a ton of cards.
We had a "BLC" as we call it. Buffalo Leadership Council. Basically us, the Buff South Zone leaders and the Sister Training Leaders which is the Clarence Sisters (Stoddard & Storms). We were planning out how to proselyte the Book of Mormon Musical that was coming to Buffalo to make sure we hit it with full force and lots of creative ideas. We had a whole thing planned and how to get missionaries there but then we called President and he quickly shot us down. He only wanted to have the downtown Elders there....
Gerald and Anthony the Recent Converts that are really struggling lately called us on Friday. They needed help shooting their video for their new YouTube channel. Gave us an opportunity to spend more time with them. They've definitely taken a step backward. But Gerald especially seems to want to step forward again and come back to church.
Exchanges up in Lewiston with Elder Fields. We ended up covering Niagara Falls that day. It was fun. Just a lot of finding. Niagara Falls on the American side is super rundown. Lots of houses and stores that are just boarded up and abandoned. Except what is lining the freeway that leads to the actual waterfall and the tourist trap immediately surrounding the waterfall.
Sunday was interesting! Mostly because the YSA was camping at the Hill Cumorah for a regional YSA activity called Gathering in the Grove. So we had to go to church in Amherst. It was interesting. First time in a real ward for 7+ months. The sisters were super lucky. Their investigating family of like 5 people were at church and their only struggle left for baptism was keeping the Sabbath Day Holy. So the talks were on keeping the Sabbath Day Holy (High Councilman) and 2 talks on baptism. Super right on topic.
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