Hello y'all! How are you doing?! We had a good week here. Now for the rundown. Tuesday we had district meeting. We had a great chat about our ward and the things we need to do to help it. We will talk more about it this week and come up with a plan. The problems are that 8 of the 9 people baptized within the last three years are inactive, and that our bishop doesn't know 85% of the members on the ward list. So we're working on in. We then did some language practice with the BYU-I professor. That was fun. We went home and had some dinner, and the rest of the day was spent at the doctor for my companion's ear. It was a really really nice little clinic that we went to called EuroMed. Everybody speaks english and there was some good music in the background (Queen, Frank Sinatra, All you need is love, etc.) and even newspapers in english. President Childs has given us the green light to catch up on events in this area if we have the chance because we know absolutely nothing about it and it's kinda important. So I hadn't read anything about it until then, but when I saw some english papers I had to. On Wednesday we went on splits with the assistants. It was mostly just a 24 hour Q and A with me. I was with Elder Doxey, a South Jordan man, and it was great. I like him a lot. We had english group and a meeting with our bishop to get some ward lists. The Area Presidency has asked all the wards to get lists of less-actives and inactives to them, they'll do something and probably give those lists back and say "go to work". Thursday we met up with our real companions. We went home and prepared for a lesson with that less active, that was kinda sad because he lost his work between the time he came to general conference and the time we met. Which means he has more free time to meet, but also more free time to do things he shouldn't. So we had a tough lesson with him and encouraged him to keep on going with the basics. Friday was fine, we had to come to the library and do an online course for training. That took a while and so did weekly planning. So then we went out to confirm that night about members who had moved to help clean up our ward lists. Saturday morning we had a stake service project at the Alexandr Nevsky Square in the city. It was fun to see all the members and the missionaries there. We had a good time. We played the spoon game, which made it fun. We had a spoon. The point of the game is to get the spoon into the pocket of somebody else without them noticing. Once you get the spoon, you have to pass it on. It was really fun. We came home from that and did some studies then continued the member hunt. Sunday was interesting... the chapel was "really cold" (it was fine) and all the ladies in the ward were complaining to ME about it. I was the greeter at the chapel door this week and they all made some snarky comment to me and I just bit my tongue. Then, to make matters worse, a window was left open on the second floor and that caused some fits. Other than that it was normal. There was a big change up in callings in our ward. The relief society presidency got reorganized. After church we went to the less-active, who didn't come to church, and taught him. He had been sleeping all day long... so that was kinda sad. Anyways, not too exciting but a good solid week.
I read Alma 29 this week and thought about it a lot... Sister Childs taught us about the word Remember in the scriptures at the last MLC and I've been noticing it more and more often. It's in this chapter a few times. I made a connection... at least I think I did. We are told to search out our ancestors and find out their stories and do temple work for them because we remember them and how merciful God was to them. We notice patterns and see that we, from that very same God, have recieved great blessings. That's why the law of Moses was there. To help Israel remember the things that had been done for their fathers and how they were led out of captivity. That was a cool thing to study about this week.Andrew
SNOW!
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