Tuesday we went to Medina to blitz their area. We have to do exchanges with them but it's far away so we just both go and blitz. It usually turns out good. Elder Sevy and I stayed up way way late just talking. He has great ideas and great ingenuity. Smart kid. I enjoyed talking to him. We went to the outskirts and tried to contact some people for him. We got a new investigator on the streets. That was cool! He has some good ideas on how to help the mission.
Okay... I want to preface this next part with we got President's permission. Tuesday night we get the text from Matt Donner. "Do you want to go to Lindsey Stirling Concert tomorrow?" Well duh freakin' ya! But we told him there was no way we could get permission. Then he tells us the Lewiston Elders are going. And I was all nervous because I didn't want to have to tell the Lewiston Elders they can't go. TURNS OUT THEY GOT PERMISSION! The Senior Couple totally convinced President to let us go. Crazy, I know! So we called him and he said we could go. So Niall and Matt were both there. Which was super sick. Plus the N Tonowanda and Lewiston elders brought some Less Active Members and investigators. So we were all interacting with them. It was good. We also were being stared at by like every single person in the place so it definitely got us noticed. And of course, Lindsey was awesome! Super impressive. Super modest. Just awesome. Matt gave a Book of Mormon to the opening act girl. That was super awesome! He's such a stud. And we only really got stopped by 1 of the staff who thought we were selling stuff.
I promise I'm still on a mission. On Thursday we ended up having this elaborate gun war for our activity. We made blow guns with PVC pipe and made little darts with sticky note paper and hot glue. It was intense. The whole gym was covered with tables, chairs and boxes and we played capture the flag and then just like normal last team standing type of game. There ended up being a little drama associated with it because our Unit Mission Leader is still meeting with us. But he isn't coming to church and the branch council is frustrated with him and what not. It's hard to explain. But it was a little bit of an annoyance to be caught in the middle of it all.
Friday while we were out street contacting we ran into our Unit Mission Leader's friend, Hannah. She was in the bar but ran outside to mess with us a little. She was being pretty feisty and whatnot. She was just teasing us about handing out Book of Mormons on the street again. She ended up taking a Book of Mormon (and my pen) and a restoration pamphlet. Gave her a Mormon.org card. Marked a favorite scripture. Good stuff. But Two ladies were eavesdropping and started to ask questions on how we knew each other. Then it started to get awkward. Because then they were all "well get her number!" And so I try to use it as a teaching opportunity to explain how missionaries don't date for their 2 years... Etc etc... Well Hannah jumps in and starts saying we can't do anything until we are married. So I correct her by saying we can go on dates, hang out, kiss, etc. Just no sex until you're married. Then.... She tried to kiss me (kind of!). She like took a step forward (there was railing in between us) and leaned on it and was all "well then kiss me!" At this point I'm trying not to laugh really hard. Elder Haws says "Please don't!" She was just being feisty and was a little tipsy. So I just blew it off and was all "haha! Not while I'm a missionary." And then we found an excuse to leave. I found the whole situation super humorous and got a good chuckle out of it. Elder Haws was a little less amused but mostly because the two ladies were harassing him for not handing out Book of Mormons when I had handed out 2 right there. Needless to say, that quickly jumps to one of my more awkward stories of the mission. Having a drunk girl try to get me to kiss her. #MissionaryProbs
Saturday we had a site trip/temple trip with the YSA. We went to the sites with Matt instead of the temple. It was pretty good! Except they are changing up the sites. Instead of a tour the sisters just stand outside the buildings and give you a few details then you go inside. It's hard to explain if you don't know how the sites go. It was just way less of a spiritual experience. Sad to see the change.
Basically this week was super super weird. It was just kind of a confusing "Did that just happen?" Kind of week. But it did happen. Ha!
This next week we have Zone Conference. We have to give a training on the Book of Mormon. The whole conference is revolved around the mission goal to give out 1,000 Book of Mormons. Which is not too many at all. President keeps telling us that the Rochester East Zone set a zone goal of 1,500 Book of Mormons. Yes, more than the mission goal. But that averages out to 2 BoMs per companionship per day. Including Sundays and P-days for 90 days straight. The goal time frame is 90 days. We are going to encourage our zone to set a goal much smaller. Like 300. That is much more achievable and can give our missionaries a sense of accomplishment. Rather than another unrealistic goal that we don't accomplish.
I've got planned these organizers for the cars to help everyone have supplies in hand as well as keeping them in good condition. Lots of Book of Mormons get ruined because they fall on the floor. Also made a little mini poster for each companionship to set their own companionship goal for Book of Mormons handed out. It's a picture of a Book of Mormon that they can color in as they progress to their own goal. I also made some inserts that we can put in the front as "suggested reading" with page numbers so people have ideas on what they can read to see what it's about. It has stuff similar to "Faith - Alma Chapter 32 (page 256)". I am also going to laminate a couple more cards since there are new people so everyone has a card with the list of chapters and basic topics that they can use to make sure they leave reading assignments with those they teach. I'm kind of wanting to add the twist of having the zone make sure they also flood their teaching pool with the Book of Mormon. Emphasize reading the Book of Mormon with those they are teaching. Stuff like that.
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