Hey Everyone!
So this last week was super busy!!! We taught nine lessons this last week, and got a flat tire! Ha! It was awesome!
I don't know if y'all remember me telling you this, but our mission president came up with a plan to get us teaching more. That plan was to challenge us to teach 20 lessons a week. He didn't care who we taught the lessons to. So it could be anyone from an investigator or recent convert to an active or less active member.
We have been trying to work hard towards that goal, but it's been super difficult! Like I said we only taught nine lessons, but that's way above normal for this area! A good portion of those lessons were taught to active members and the rest were taught to less active members. It was way awesome though because one of the less-active members that we taught we thought at first we wouldn't get to teach her. Previously, we had dropped by to meet her and her husband wasn't too happy about us being there. His body language and the way he talked to us made it pretty clear that he wasn't interested in talking with us. As we were leaving, his wife (the less-active member) came out and started talking to us. She told us that she was having a hard time right now with some things and that she would come back to church when she was ready. Well like a month later she shows up at church! While there, she asked us to come over for service and signed up on the meal calendar to feed us! So cool! After we took care of the service she needed she prepared dinner for us. We noticed that she was drinking a glass of wine, so we felt it appropriate to share a lesson on the Word of Wisdom. She openly admitted that she had a problem with the word of wisdom. We shared our testimony and Heavenly Father's love for her and then we headed out.
We also taught the Family F. They are an awesome couple! They haven't been coming to church, we think, because of how unique the ward is here. There are a lot of converted Baptist and/or Pentecostals. During Sacrament meeting they tend to be very vocal in their praise of Jesus, the "Hallelujah's and all that good stuff. When they bear their testimony it gets even better. Some of the things that the family have said leads us to think it makes them a bit uncomfortable. They go to the ward of one of their parents every once in a while and that's about it. So we have been teaching them the lessons :).
The rest of the lessons have been with active members that agreed to let us practice on them. Ha ha. Which actually leads into the flat tire story! Last Thursday night we had a dinner appointment with Sister R. It was actually a very good meal, it was breakfast for dinner! Everything went really well! And the lesson on, "Our Savior, Jesus Christ, was awesome! After the lesson was done, we said a closing prayer and left. We headed out to our car. We talked to the other elders for a minute and then went our separate ways.
We got in the car and we started to head out. Now keep in mind earlier that day the low tire light on the dashboard came on. We just thought it was because one of the tires was a little bit low because we checked and they looked just slightly low, so we thought it would be no big deal if we filled it up with air the next day. So anyway, we start to head off and all we hear is the sound of a flat tire on the asphalt. Great! I told Bodda to pull over because we had a flat. Ha it's actually a good thing I was there because Bodda wouldn't have known what to do. I got out of the car, after he pulled it over, and asked him to pop the trunk. I opened up the trunk and I lifted up the floor matting to get out the spare tire and jack out. Elder Bodda had no idea they were there. We also called the other Elders so they could come back in case we needed help. Comically enough, it pretty much turned into it watch-fest as everybody stood around and watched me change the tire. Elder Bodda helped a bit by jacking up and lowering the car when I needed him to. Other then that, I took off all the nuts, the flat, put on the spare, replaced the nuts, Bodda lowered the car for the last time, and we were good to go!.....
Then today, for P-day, we went to the national Smithsonian Zoo! It was pretty fun because one of the district leaders created a scavenger hunt for us to do. We broke up into districts and went around the zoo trying to find these certain animals. Unfortunately, there were two or three animals on the scavenger hunt that weren't even at the zoo anymore, so we couldn't even do the full scavenger hunt. I was unable to get any pictures as well because everybody was in a rush to make sure that we got all the pictures for the scavenger hunt. I have to go next transfer with my next companion, if I'm transferred out, and get some good pictures :).
Well, that has been our packed week! It was a ton of fun and super busy with teaching :). I hope you all had a great week as well. Here is to wishing you an even better week in the week to come! I love and miss you all!
Elder Gold
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