Pretty good week this week here in the North End!
We have been doing mainly finding because the people we were working with just were not going anywhere. It is amazing how different cultures all mesh here in the north end. I would say it is 30% phillipino, 30% white, and 25% native and 15% other. Let me tell you, if we could spend the whole time in the other category we would be quite happy! Last transfer Elders Wright and Tippits worked like all with the Phillipino people and now we have a bunch of super nice people who love Jesus but are very stuck in their ways and often times will not convert because of social reasons. White people are just mean haha, they are the only race that will slam the door in our face. In my whole mission I don't remember getting it slammed by anyone else. It is interesting! Anyways this week we started working with a ton of African people! We have a few from the Congo, some from Sudan, some from a country that speaks Swahili. It is so nice, now that is definitely not to say that we don't work with the other races but most of the time they don't let us in!
Monday we had the chance to do a bunch of tracting! We had a lesson set but her husband was not home so we could not go in. That makes for an extremely awkward conversation but we had to do it! We rescheduled with her. To make it even more awkward the next day on exchanges Elder Wright accidentally called her thinking she was someone else. Thankfully she did not answer but then he texted her and introduced us. It is just so awkward. If we get to teach her then she must be solid because at this point we seem like such awkward little boys haha!
Tuesday we had exchanges with one of our DL's. They are in a tripan so Elder Wright took the DL Elder McCoard and I took his Trainee Elder Magleby and the other missionary Elder Nagtalon! I always use the phrase exchange magic because it always happens! Elder Wright and McCoard took all 3 or 4 of the set lesson s that day and the other three of us tracted... All day! Jokes on Elder Wright though because they got lunched all 4 times! My tripan tracted into this lady who was white! She said to come back at 5 when her husband is home. We were pretty excited! We went back and taught them and they fed us! That is my first meal appointment in Gateway! That was also the first time I have been fed by an investigator on a first lesson! We are seeing that family again tomorrow!
Wednesday was a good day but not much to report.
Thursday was one of the longest but also shortest days of my mission. We had MLC and all of the Zl's and the Sister training Leaders came in! It is a little crazy because there are so many new zone leaders that out of the 10 I am the 3rd oldest. Pretty crazy. I feel like a greenie but in reality I am ancient. We discussed the mission plan for baptisms, the mission goal for 2017, the standards of excellence and received training. It started at 10:30. We were out of there by 6:30. It was soooo good but so spiritually draining. Good times!
Friday was the start of the Christmas initiative. We are going pretty ham on it this year. If you haven't see the video go watch it and send it to everyone! It is really good!
Saturday we taught a few lessons and one of our investigators moved to the Philippines so that was too bad.
Sunday we got to give a bunch of the Christmas initiative cards to members and committed them to hand them out. Not sure if the missionaries there did that or not but you should get some and share them. Everyone needs to see this video!
Overall it was a good week! This coming week will be a good one for this area.
Elder Stewart
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