This week was a super fun week for us. I love the YSA ward and I love having so much time on my hands to just be a missionary. I was talking to the Assistants and they have 3 zone conferences and an exchange this week. We on the other hand have almost nothing but personal finding and lessons. It is fun!
Monday we played Gadianton robbers for P-Day and that was nice. Elder Gee really wanted to play so i agreed to narrate for him and it was great. We had like 18 missionaries playing but it was sad because honestly they were really bad at it... That night we had family home evening with the YSA ward and we played ultimate frisbee. That was pretty fun! I am sad that i only get 1 transfer here though, I would love to spend 6 months in this ward.
Tuesday we taught a couple recent converts and did some finding. We were able to street contact into a guy named Steve who is super nice. he is from Ghana and he is Christian but he is not so married to his church which is the perfect situation. There is no one better to find than a less active Catholic. They are so open! Anyways we taught Steve and he is very interested. Hopefully something comes of it!
Wednesday was district meeting. I enjoyed it, Elder Gee gave some good training on the Tsar Canon. look it up! It is a great analogy that i don't want to type up. Wednesday we also taught a group of 5 Nigerian roommates. That was a little intimidating but they were super nice and I think 1-2 of them could be solid. It sounds like last transfer was a little slow in the YSA so Elder Gee and i have found a few places that are just like streets where the YSA people flow like milk and honey. We are finding like crazy and we figure someone is bound to be prepared.
Thursday was the day we taught some basketball player from Zimbabwe. He is a nice guy and his name is Kushinga. He would not set a date for baptism but is pretty reliable. That night we also had institute and I actually enjoyed that. I didn't always love seminary, especially during release time but I think I am becoming more genuine in my learning. After teaching the gospel for two years I am actually interested in learning more! The teachers are the Sr YSA missionaries named the Guellers and they are from Green Bay.
Friday we had a busy day with some lessons. One of them was with a recent convert and his investigator sister. It was a little awkward because they started ranting to us about eachother. I just had to pull some Dr Phil wisdom out and ask them "So are you telling me..." It worked well and we actually had a pretty good lesson. That night we had dinner with the Guellers. We also had ward Correlation with the new ward mission leader. At ward correlation the bishop was there and we had some good things to talk about. I kind of felt bad because previous assignments that had been given to the Elders that i did not know about were uncompleted. We got some new assignments and some updated ones and tried our best to get those done. One assignment was a LA named Heri who is korean. Heri had not been to church in about a year. Bishop asked us to get in touch with him. the next day at we got in touch with him. We then taught him, invited him to church and he came. That really helps with ward council support when assignments are completed and accounted on. It was good stuff!
To make it better we also found a new investigator named Terry who also is Korean. We taught him, invited him to church and he came as well. Heri and Terry exchanged contact info and are now helping each other become associated or re associated with the church. I love it when a plan comes together! Our Saturday consisted of teaching those two and a lot of finding.
Sunday we had church, ward council and some finding. Other than Heri and terry coming to church it was mostly just an average missionary day.
Love you all!
Elder Stewart
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