Hello Friends and family.
This week was interesting to say the least. To begin with a little context the district has had a little trouble finding new people to teach. Upon counselling with the Zone Leaders and the Sister Training Leader Trainers we decided that in order to boost the Morale of the other missionaries we needed to find a few people really early on in the week and tell them all about it.
With that in mind we began the week with a pretty average p-day. We did all of our stuff that we needed to and than the Sansoucie's fed us for dinner. Basically to make a long story short, we were asked to make a facebook event for Owen's (their son's) upcoming baptism so that we could invite investigators and less actives more easily etc. It took about 90 min to figure out how to get it set up and we had to teach Owen some stuff so we were basically running mega-late for our planned finding time. We quickly drove back to where our apartment and looked around in desperation as there was only about 5 minutes left until 9:00, when we have to go in. Elder Smith and I looked around for people all over the place around our apartment building and we saw 2 different groups of people on their balcony. One was lit up and they looked like they were partying, the others were just sitting in the dark and smoking. We decided that we were not feeling like party people that evening so we went (ran) over to the unlit balcony and offered to help them stop smoking. They said "sure" and we picked them up as new investigators. We will be seeing them later this evening. It would have been really easy to go in early or find something less productive to do, but Elder Smith and I wanted to make some miracles happen and we did! That was a really cool experience and it really helped the other missionaries to feel that they too could make miracle happen with diligence and hard work.
Other than that it was a pretty normal week. We spent thanksgiving at the Weech's home. Sister Weech is the relief society president and she is super cool. Those in attendance were the Elders and the Weech's and sister Baker and her mother-in-law. The food was really good and so was the company. I am really grateful that I did not have to make my own food for thanksgiving. It would have been really sad. I am grateful for such strong members that are willing to help whenever they can, from inviting investigators to their child's baptism, to feeding the Elders on Thanksgiving. I think that I have learned a lot about the attributes of Christ from them and I hope to be as noble as them.
That's pretty much all I have for this week. I hope that you all have a great week.
love you!until Next Week!
-Elder Connor Starr
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