Oh Home!!! Let me go home!! Home is wherever im with you! :)
Gotta love Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros!
Anyways :) So, disreguard at that stuff. Im not homesick, its just a great song that I heard playing in the mall and its been stuck in my head all week. This past week was a pretty crazy one. The end of my 3rd Transfer but we still put in work leading up to the start of my 4th. Had some crazy ups and downs with investigators and my little league football team haha but the work is progressing and our area has slowed down but is slowly Catching Fire (No hunger games reference) Haha Here was my week boiiiiiiiiii
Tuesday September 18th: Started the day off at Paul & Beth Austins house. We gave Beth her new member lessons and taught Paul the same thing at the same time. Talked about the plan of salvation and all that good stuff and well...as we started to talk to Paul about baptism, we started to get the hint that he was trying to drop us haha It may sound bad but we kept cutting him off just so he wouldnt haha So instead of him dropping us and not getting baptized, he agreed to meet with us on Thursday. Hes ready to be baptized, honestly, he should've been baptized back in August with his wife but Procrastination is his biggest problem. He thinks that if he waits till after elections, then he'll be ready...yeah..no. haha Anyways, after that meeting we went tracting around for a little while, same ol same ol with nothing to show for it. Its hard to tract in our area because I can honestly say that in the 5 months i've been here...I've knocked on just about every house haha. Dinner was a little early tonight cause my little league team had practice at 5:30. Its the closest thing to football that i can get so i'll take it. haha After practice we headed to our last appointment and taught Isabella and her dad Andy to finish off the day. Pretty good day if you ask me.
Wednesday September 19th: Well, we had some free time during the day so we caught a ride with Matt and hit the mall because my companion need to buy new running shoes. My comps cool and all but hes one stingy, cheap person when it comes to sharing and all that haha i'll get to that later. He got some shoes and we headed back into town and spent most the day with Matt, Laura and this awesome Less-Active family; Pete and Cassie Sinclair-Hall. We taught a couple lessons that night to Sam and our newest investigator Zach Vancamp. He lives with his aunt and uncle and their 2 kids. Hes a really shy dude but loves reading the book of mormon because, in his words "Its kind of like a fiction book...but better. I mean, i know it really happened and all but this is better than The Hobbit.." Haha hes a funny kid. Hes getting baptized on October 20th but if we keep meeting with him as much as we have, he'll get baptized soon than that.
Thursday September 20th: Good Ol' Transfer Day :) The 1 day every 6 weeks you get to see other missionaries besides the same one you wake up to every day haha. Transfer days kind of like another mini P-Day. We hang out at transfer loop and wait for all the new people to come in and old people to leave. I met a lot of dudes from back home that knew me but I had no idea who they were. Not trying to sound like Mr. Cool Guy but on the real...low key creepy. They knew more about me than people i do know (.__.) Anyways, we shot over to teach Paul again today and ended up setting a new date for his baptism!! October 20th (same day as Zach's) but Paul said he wants to take things serious and get this done. I think he really wants to go to the temple and be sealed to Beth. Thats always a tender subject for that guy. But hey, im all for it. Just gotta get him to stop smoking. Thank goodness for E-Cigerettes! After out lesson with Paul, Matt took us out golfing with a few Less-Active members and one of our investigators whos dropped us but is still friends with the Less Active member. What better way to get your foot in the door than to just seem normal and hang out with them. He said he hates and I quote "Missionary Robots." Haha he said all Missionaries hes came into contact with have been weird and seem like the same person...all of them "With the exception of you...maybe its because you're brown or something" haha I love that guy. After we golfed we went and met with the Harringtons for the first time in like a month and a half. They had texted us a few days ago and said that they wanted to stop meeting with us cause they're busy so they invited us over to dinner just to drop us. haha Well, as dinner went on we talked and my mouth was going a million miles an hour but honestly I did not know where it was coming from...okay Yes i did (Spirit for days!!) haha It was incredible! By the end of the visit, they changed their mind and decided to meet with us every Friday. :) Yeyyyy Buddy!
Friday September 21st: Well...we had nothing planned for the day so we went tracting all morning from about 10 till 12. Like i said...its not as effective as you think. Haha So, the Investigator, Less-Active member and Matt hit us up and decided to take us golfing again. Can turn down a gentlemens game right?! Im glad we did because the investigator who dropped us said hes been thinking about starting the disccusions again but he said give him more time. I think the more we hang out with the dude, not missionary related, just trying to be friends with the guy, the more he'll be open to taking the discussions again! But...yup, that was my friday...how was yours!? :)
Saturday September 22nd: Again, didnt have too much going on today. Headed to my football teams first game of the season...we lost 19-6..bro. Now i know why parents get so crushed when their kids lose )': sadest faces i've ever seen. They got demolished today and I had never seen been so sad before in my life! haha I felt so bad but they learned a lot and are ready for a good week of practice. After the game we visited a few Less-Active families and then headed over to the Alms place for some Din Din and close out the night...Found out later that night that we lost to ASU 37-7...but we still looked swagged out with Black Helmets!! Ayyyy!!!! hahaha Brush it off. USC's coming up. Utes up!
Sunday September 23rd: Had another great sabbath day today. After church we didnt have too much going on so we came home, studied and took a nap before dinner and our lesson with Zach. Taught the Word of Wisdom then headed home. Next time we're teaching the Law of Chastity...dun dun dunnnnnn! 0_o super awkward teaching that to young ones haha.
Well...that was my week. Trying to find more people to teach. Most of our teaching pool consists of Less-Active Members and Recent Converts. Im not complaining, i love reactivating Less-Actives. Always a fun thing to see people come back to church. Its weird that I was considered Less-Active for past like what? 5-6 years of my life haha Did not know that till i came on a mish.
Oh, my mom tells me that my Blog is up in running with all my missionary stuff on it. Check It out. Its pretty cool :)
isaac59asiata.blogspot.com
Anyways, I hope you all have a blessed week. Shout out one time to my Lost Boys round the world serving and preaching the good word. Keep holding it down for the 801 hehhh!
Till Next Week
Take Care
-Elder Isaac Asiata