One For the Team

Journal
Monday 1/15
Today was quite the day. We started off with normal preparation activities, did some cleaning and shopping. The event of the day was we had to go and clean an old missionaries’ apartment. They were shutting it down and missionaries hadn’t lived there for a little while and so we had to go clean it. When we got there, the apartment smelled less than desirable. Elder Rabago went into the kitchen and opened up the freezer. All of a sudden, we hear some screaming and some heaving. Very quickly a rancid smell swept through the apartment. The fridge and freezer had food left in it, but it hadn’t been working for the last few weeks so the food had completely rotted. Elder Rabago and I took one for the team and emptied the fridge and freezer. Before we knew it, Elder Goold was over the rail losing his lunch. Ha ha, it was quite the day. Tonight, we taught a part member family, the Maynard’s, they are super awesome and they probably have the craziest pit bull I have ever met. The dog I swear has ADHD and drinks energy drinks as water. It runs, jumps and is just all over the place haha!

Tuesday 1/16
Today we met a kid named Cody. Cody is super awesome we started talking to him and the topic was God’s plan for us. He was like you know I don’t really believe in the heaven and hell thing! Haha we were like yes! Listen to this! He was like man I really like that! He then was like yeah I kind of feel God would give people another chance! Once again we were like listen to this! It was great!

Wednesday 1/17
Today we got to see Vernon! I love Vernon and am hoping he will continue to progress. He asked if it would be ok to be baptized again and we were like yes absolutely! Let us tell you about it! We also got to visit a man named JC. JC is an inactive member who has a non-member wife. He reached out to the Elder’s Quorum President and wanted some spiritual strength. We met them on Sunday and scheduled to come by tonight. He is a convert and then because of some unfortunate events fell into inactivity. His wife currently isn’t very fond of the church but I guess immediately liked Elder Goold and I because of how happy we were. We hope to be able to start teaching them!

Thursday 1/18
This morning we did some service. I know it will probably shock all of you but yes there are a few trees in Las Vegas and we got to wrack some leaves and clean up a yard. It was a lot of fun to do some yard work. This afternoon we got a call from one of our investigators who has quite a few health problems and she asked if we could take her garbage out, as well as, walk her to the mail pickup. She isn’t that old but struggles with many health problems. A few minutes after we left her she started having signs of another stroke. She had had one a couple days prior to today. It was scary but she said she called her doctor and that she would be fine.

Friday 1/19
We met several great people today. We were able to meet with the Gotchy Family, which was quite difficult. They are kind of flaky and don’t like scheduling things so it is rough to get into that home. Their kids are probably the hardest people I have taught because they are straight off the wall crazy. We taught them the restoration using a Rubik’s cube!

Saturday 1/20
Today we got a referral at about 2pm. We called the guy and he told us to meet him at 4 at his apartment. We knocked and he let us in and I immediately recognized this guy was a little different than normal. He was rocking a leather jacket covered in pins, a Donald trump hat, bleached hair, and long fake girl finger nails.... he is from Israel and is Jewish but likes Christianity more. He said he wants to change his life around and get a different job. He asked what my dad did for work and I said he works at a lumber yard and he said that he wanted to work for my dad. I am not sure this guy would last five minutes in Wyoming haha! Good stuff.

At Ken's baptism last week: