12/19 Tuesday
Today we had a lesson and dinner with Jerry. I am not sure if I have ever told you about him. Jerry is in his sixties and is quite wealthy. He owns his own little cul-de-sac with four homes. All of his family lives in the homes. We found Jerry while we went to try to contact his son who is an inactive member... and I mean inactive haha. Jerry started talking to us and the rest is history. We go over like once a week and we helped him with his Christmas lights last Saturday and so he wanted to take us to dinner. Jerry attended the Mormon Church for 5 years and never was baptized and then he got offended. We had a great discussion and invited him to church and he should be able to make it on Sunday!
12/20 Wednesday
Dave and Katie!! Today was the first day of the Mission Zone Conference. It was a long, busy day, and kind of stressful, but everything worked out well. Tonight we had a super, amazing lesson with David and Katie. They’ve made so much progress since the first time we met them. We had a nail in prayer with them tonight and Katie started crying. They said they’re going to be at church on Sunday and so hopefully they keep that commitment.
12/21 Thursday
Today we went and taught the Saladino family. We asked Clayton (nonmember) what his thoughts were about the Restoration of the Gospel and of things we taught. He said, “you know, I have been to a lot of church’s and none of them feel quite right, but the more I learn and have gone to the Mormon Church the more it is clearer and makes more sense!” We invited him to church and he said that he works but if he gets off early he will be there. We told him that we would be praying every day until Sunday, that he would get off early and be able to come to church, so hopefully we’ll see!
12/22 Friday
We saw Jerry today and he is doing well. We are trying super hard to get him to commit to come to church but we can’t get anything super solid. We asked him to read a chapter of the Book of Mormon and he texted tonight and said he read it!
12/23 Saturday
Today we went tracking for a couple hours. Received some success, found some super awesome people. It was a lot of fun. Today President Walker called us and asked if we would meet him at the mission home. There President called me in and released me from being an assistant. He said that most likely I will be training a new missionary. I will miss being around President and Sister Walker so much!
12/24 Sunday
We started the morning at the Heimark’s before church. We had breakfast with them and we then went to church. Brother Heimark’s parents are in town from Montana and so we were able to meet them! They are super nice and they all came to church! The Alexander Ward had their Christmas program and it was a packed house. There were lots of less actives and nonmembers in attendance.
12/25 Monday, Christmas Day
Well, I got to talk to the family today! It was sure good to see them and talk to them! I am blessed to have such a great family! We made cookies and went and dropped them off to our investigators! They loved it, but who knows if they dare eat them! 😂 We had a prime rib dinner tonight and my slice of meat was probably a good inch and a half thick!
12/26 Tuesday
Today was a pretty normal day. It was p-day today. We went shopping and played spike ball and basketball. This morning we met at the office with President and Elder van Vleet was called as the new assistant. Starting Thursday, I will be with Elder Erickson from Alaska. We taught Clayton and the Saladinos tonight and invited Clayton to be baptized. They were so excited because they thought there was a waiting period of a year to six months to be baptized! Hey
12/27 Wednesday
Well things changed again. haha We got a call from President and we had to meet him at a missionaries apartment first thing this morning because a missionary was getting sent home. Elder Jensen went to the airport with President and I began my one-week companionship with Elder Erickson. I look forward to serving with him. He is a good Elder that has a lot of potential. We taught Dave and Katie tonight and they are doing really well. We taught them the Plan of Salvation and we got David to pray at the end of the lesson. He told us he has had some “coincidences” happen in his life that he can’t explain, but they have led him to us and us to him. He said that he has told Katie about them but he hasn’t decided if he will ever tell us haha! They are an amazing family!
12/28 Thursday
It has been pretty crazy the last couple of days. We shuttle Elder Jensen back and forth from the office so he and Elder van Vleet can do transfer planning and then Elder Erickson and I work both our area and the Spanish area! We meet with an inactive member that lives in our area but only speaks Spanish and so Elder Erickson talked the whole time in Spanish! He will be attending church this Sunday!
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| Elder Erickson, Elder Jensen, Elder Call |
12/29 Friday
Elder Jensen came down sick today but he is pushing through it so they can be ready for transfers.
12/30 Saturday
The apartment Elder Erickson used to live in was quite a mess, so for the last few days during our lunch and dinner times we eat as fast as we can so that we can clean and man, my mom would be so proud of how clean we are getting this apartment! It is a complete 180! We taught Clayton again tonight and he is stoked to get baptized. He told us he was super excited and so he called his mom and told her (she is a Jehovah Witness). I guess it did not go over well but Clayton told us that he knows it is just an obstacle Satan is trying to throw at him! We got a text tonight that said, “hey Elder Call Ken Hestor is getting baptized next Saturday and would like you to be there” I was so stoked to hear Ken was getting baptized! I worked with him for 6 months and he is finally ready for baptism! President called me in today and called me to be a trainer as well as a district leader. I will be going back to the Las Vegas Zone, right next door to where I started my mission!
12/31 Sunday
Elder Jensen got real sick today. We didn’t attend Alexander Ward today because he was so sick. Elder Erickson came down with it as well, so it was an interesting day. There were a couple highlights though! David, Katie, and Reese came to church today! Every talk was on the same thing and it went 30 minutes over but hey it was alright haha.... they enjoyed it! We also taught a lesson in the Rainbow Vista Ward about the Book of Mormon and that went well! I can understand quite a bit of the Spanish and know what they are talking about but I can’t say a thing back to the conversation haha!
1/1 Monday
Today we had to run a couple things around in prep of transfers. We taught a guy named Carlos and a guy named Nick as well as the Heimarks. Nick is a super smart genius science dude and so that was pretty interesting haha. He was talking and I was nodding a little as he was talking and he was like “you are not supposed to agree with me, you are supposed to tell me that I am wrong and then prove and sway me a different way.” Well teaching the gospel works different than a science class! Haha the Heimarks lesson went really well, it was tough to say goodbye to them. I have grown to love them a lot.
Love ya!
Elder Call
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