This week was great and very successful! The conference with Elder Bednar was just our mission so that was cool! We talked a lot about teaching people and what they need to understand in this gospel. Faith is seriously the most important thing that any of us can have! It leads to everything else.
1/16 Monday
Basketball was way fun today. The zone leaders invited one of their investigators to come play! He grew up playing street ball in Oakland... practically the same as growing up playing on the Meadows Ward Skunks team... Haha, this guy was good but the game was a little too much for him because he spent a good while in the bathroom puking. We had dinner/lesson with a family that have a nine-year-old daughter that will be getting baptized soon, so we are excited for her! We also had a lesson with Brother Labovitz and Sister Hennings which went well. We read Alma 18.
1/17 Tuesday
Today was the bomb. We talked with so many people today and had a lot of lessons! One of the best parts of the day was knocking on a recent converts house who went less active a few months ago. He wasn't home but his wife was and so we were able to talk with her for a while. Her and her daughter are not members so it was good to be able click with them and hopefully we can start teaching them!
1/18 Wednesday
Today was another successful day but we got stuck in Brother Campbell’s house for two hours! He talked nonstop for 115 minutes. Towards the end Elder McClure was doing my dad’s famous head bob. Haha he was falling asleep in a recent converts home! I finally had to interrupt and tell him we needed to go and asked if we could say a prayer and who he would like to say it and he said "we will have Mr. Sleepy say it" haha. I was embarrassed for him! We had a lesson with the Herlean’s again today. Sounds like they will get baptized in March.
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| A March 2016 picture of Ben Call & Rudy |
We had a lesson with Charlene today. Charlene is a frustrating investigator because she isn't willing to do much. I wanted to stop teaching her when I first got here but I am glad we didn't. While we were there we started talking to her nephew. He has been a nonstop alcoholic the last 14 months and he had stopped 8 days previous. Cigarettes had been an issue for a long time as well and he had stopped three weeks previously. We told him about church and the Addiction Recovery Program and he said he would be at church on Sunday, so hopefully he comes! We had a lesson with the Stucki family which went well. Sister Stucki, hopefully, will be getting baptized on the 28th. We also had a lesson with the Robinson family tonight. They are super amazing and their son will be getting baptized next month!
1/20 Friday
Today was exchanges with the zone leaders. I was with Elder Elbert for the day! He is the best/ most successful missionary in the mission so it was super cool to be able to learn from him. We get along super well and have similar backgrounds. Last night we stayed up to 2:30 talking.... it made for a rough day because we were so tired! It rained like crazy today so it was fun to be able to get away from the sun! The zone leaders have two investigators that walked into our ward a couple weeks ago that we saw today. They have a rough situation. They don't have parents and so they live with an aunt. The boy had a pedal bike but his sister only had roller blades and so that is how they would travel around. But a missionary's parents had given him a bike that was not a very good mission bike and so they gave it to her! She was super excited and grateful!
1/21 Saturday
Not even sure what to write today... I had an amazing day. Elder Bednar came to the mission and gave us a training! It was pretty much a 3-hour Q&A. It was sweet. Something that I love is that these General Authorities have super great personalities! Elder Bednar reminded us that “happiness is a choice.” To add to this amazing day is knowing that Rudy was baptized. I was so excited and touched by Rudy’s decision to be baptized! We had another lesson with the Herlean’s tonight and that went well, also!
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| Ben told his family, "Thank you so much for going to the baptism! I bet it was super cool! Thank you for the pictures!" |
Today was the polisher for a great week! We had seven people come to church and had two lessons tonight. Our ward mission leader came with us to the lesson. We were teaching the Rodartes and this story is gross haha. So their little girl, Amy, was sitting on Brother Headlee’s lap and all of a sudden I see disgust come over his face and he picks Amy up and sets her down. I figured what had happened but no one else picked up on it! After the lesson Brother Headlee told us that Amy had gone the bathroom on his lap and gotten his pants all wet. Haha gross!
Being in the presence of an Apostle was an amazing experience! I can testify that he is called of God and that Christ lives and is shown in him and us as we serve and as we put our lives in line with the teachings of the gospel!
I love you all!
-Elder Call
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