WEEK 37 - Freedom Park, Las Vegas

HELLO EVERYONE!!

Ok the first week of the transfer is always crazy so imma break it down day by day sorry if this is LONG

MONDAY

★ Pday! Went to the thrift! Signed everyones transfer journals, packed up my suitcases, had one last member meal at Heidi and Lane Leavitt's! Theyre the best. 

★We had Come Follow Me at Warm Springs but we didn't teach a lesson lol because we had to leave fast to go say bye to everyone!

★ I already miss Logandale and Moapa and the people there SO much. Shoutout Brandy and Chopper they gave us big ol gift baskets with all the stuff. SO NICE! I miss y'all

TUESDAY

★ Longest day of my LIFE! Got up early and headed to the transfer building. Said bye to Sister Mitchell and hello to Sister Godfrey! I love seeing all the missionaries at the building its so fun.

★ We went out biking! You know what is CRAZY?!?! This is the EXACT same area (plus a few more streets) as my first area but English this time not Spanish, so I know my way around 

★ We had a DEAF LESSON with AJ!!! (I'm pretty sure I already told yall I'm over the deaf group too) it was so fun I'm def a little rusty but it's still good.

WEDNESDAY

★ Went to an apartment complex wow theres people EVERYWHERE! Like wdym I gave the church info to 3 different people in the span of 2 minutes. (Logandale/Moapa could never ) 

★ OK funnest thing EVERRRR we get to go out of the mission to BARNS & NOBLE sadly not to browse around (but still) but for a deaf community thing and basically just chat it up w all the deaf people. Kind of fun kind of scary lol

THURSDAY

★SISTER GODFREY'S (my companion) BIRTHDAY! Shoutout to our roomates for setting up the common room cute for when she wakes up because I just got here and did not have time to prepare anything. 

★ knocked a complex and met 3 cool people!

★ I passed OUT during lunch but it's ok because we had weekly planning after so I ate during that.

★ Ok random- so we get a media referral, he wants a Book of Mormon. We meet him later, explain the BoM andI gave him the intro to read and asked if we could come back to followup and hes like oh idk how long it'll take me to read this(referencing the WHOLE BOOK)... maybe same time next week? And Im like oh you do NOT need to read the whole thing

★ Another deaf lesson with AJ and later a deaf lesson with Danielle. 

★ CAFE RIO FOR DINNERRR YAYYAYYAYA oh how I have missed it. (We can go because we were north for the deaf lessons)

★ Lesson with Gus hes like a gym bro but really interested ig, great lesson! 

★ Met the CUTEST family literally ever. We hold hands when we pray and its a mom with a bunch of little daughters named Akeila Akayla Alaya Aalaysia and Millie 2 of them are on date for baptism!

FRIDAY

★ Had District Council w new district!

★ Lmk why everyone we talked to this morning was interested

★ did service for Starr! Helping clean/ set up her trailer 

★ Anotha lesson with Gus

★ We were gonna drop this girl that we've been teaching for a while because we havent gotten in contact with her in like a few weeks lol so we decided to knock one more time and her daughter answered and wanted a Book of Mormon!

SATURDAY

OK buckle up this is a long day. 

★ First of all Sister LaPoint (one of our roomates) woke up to the room/ her desk decorated for her birthday! We set it all up the night before.

★ We had Stake breakfast! Stake Pres puts on a breakfast for all his missionaries it's fun.

★ Went to Joyce's house, brought in cases of water and let her chat to us for a little

★ Lesson-ish with Adrian and Javier but theres crazy fam drama going on so kinda awk

★ the sr missionaries threw a BIRTHDAY PARTY!!! For Sister Lapoint, Sister Godfrey, Chris(new member I just love him he's so silly) and Lucio (Also a mew member). It was so much fun.

★ Knocked the cutie fam, Akayla said adults arent home and that there was just a shooting in this complex??

★ THEN we went to the DEAF PARTYYYY we got there early to set up and it was such a good turnout! Lots of deaf people and the ASL elders from the west mission came! People brought treats, we chatted, and played bingo!

★ Had a super good lesson with April later, at the end we heart a LOUD BOOM that sounded like a gunshot like REALLY close to us we felt it. Found out later it was someone setting off a firework in the grill in her backyard smh

SUNDAY

★ Ok LEMME TELL YOU! We INTERPRET church becsuse we dont have an official group yet. yall I can have conversations in asl but interpreting is like WAY harder.

★ knocked this door, a lady answered and was CONVINCED we are jehovas witnesses. We tried to explain that we are not the same but she was not hearing it and was going off JEHOVAS WITNESS JEHOVAS WITNESS

★ Had a great lesson with the cutie fam and Didi (who is the baby daddies girl.. but they're like all friends and shes like another mom to the kids)

★ Met a cute lady at the bus stop and shared a scripture, gave her a BoM!

MONDAY

★ Trying to find a referral but then we met this other girl on her balcony in a different building and shes so cool and wants to grow her relationship with Christ

★ Good lesson with AJ! Shes getting ready for her baptism in October! And some more lessons.

SPIRITUAL THOUGHT

OK we were biking the other day and I'm trying to get back into the no hands and it's easier to stay up and balanced when I keep peddling. If you stop peddling, you will lose momentum and eventually fall.

SO this got me thinking about the gospel and how we need to keep "peddling" and pressing forward and acting in our faith or we will fall, or lose our faith.

★ Ways we can keep our spiritual momentum going is things like intentionally praying, studying scriptures, and going to church! 

★ 2 Nephi 31:20 "Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life."

Love you all have a great week!