Elder Gavin Milius: NFL PROSPECTS AND TURKEY

What up y'all!!! Happy Thanksgiving!!!! Hope you guys enjoyed turkey day as much as I did. But before I get to Thursday...

Our week was all planned out before we even started which was a blessing because we didn't have to sit around at 6:30 in the morning wondering what we were gonna do each day.

Monday we had a lesson with a new person and it went really really well! There was a RM that came with us and he was actually a super cool guy!! He asked amazing questions and me and my comp were just blown away at how good this guy was!! Maybe it's because he's been doing this for the past two years and we haven't but still!!

Tuesday we had a lesson with one our really progressing people. And this lesson was super wack. Me and my comp didn't know what we were gonna teach her so we prayed about it like every day leading up to Tuesday and also asked the members who were hosting what they think. They said we could do something with prayer. But We ended up preparing to read 1 Nephi 10 and talk about how Nephi wanted to know for himself what his father was talking about. We didn't know why we chose this because It didn't make any sense when we tried relating it to prayer. But we felt like this was right so we just went in with it trusting God. Come to find out this was her favorite story from her personal reading in the Book Of Mormon, and we had a great discussion about Jesus Christ and how prayer is how we can diligently seek to find answers to our prayers!! It all worked out great and we were super grateful we kept the lesson where it was at!!

Wednesday we had another lesson with a really progressing couple, and we also didn't know what to do so we prayed about it and decided to talk about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The lesson went super great because they ask amazing questions and we shared a lot about the spirit and how after we are baptized that spirit is just poured out more abundantly upon us. Shared Mosiah 18 to go with that. And then her dad straight up testified of the atonement and how it has blessed his life so much, was in tears at the end, she was also in tears and the room was just filled with the spirit!! It was so cool!!!

Thursday was Thanksgiving and in the morning we played in a turkey bowl with our ward. It was so much fun but they are like so serious about how they play football, so much so that the opposing team had a person bring their cousin who runs track for BYU, almost made it into the olympics!! And plays football on the side!! Luckily I didn't have to play him but my companion did hahaha, but it was so fun to run around for once lol. We then had a Thanksgiving lunch with the lady we do service for, and that was fantastic!! Then we had a dinner with a member and that was also fantastic. At the end of their dinner tho I was so full and starting to get sick, but remembered we told another member we would come be for dessert. So we went to their house, ate some more dessert and almost puked, then we went home and passed out, after we talked to our families though. Overall a Thanksgiving I will never forget.

Friday we had an exchange with the Zone Leaders and it was a blast!! Me and Elder Matthew's did a ton of knocking and when I say a ton I mean we knocked from like 5:30 till 8 at night. We talked to so many people and I've honestly gained so much confidence in just testifying of the Book Of Mormon every chance I get. We also talked to this one guy who said no to a prayer at first but then said if we go get his package from downstairs he would let us in. So we did and he let us in! We prayed with him and he asked us a question, he asked why is there so much evil in the world if god is all loving? Elder Matthews hit him with an amazing explanation about opposition and agency and the plan of salvation and i got to add that because we know evil, we know what true joy is. He said he liked my explanation better which was so not true cause Elder Matthews had an amazing explanation i just added to it! But Elder Matthew's is a great ZL and I learned a ton from him!!

Saturday me and my comp were kinda both sick 😰, it had to have been a mix of Thanksgiving, dinner with the ZLs and working out really hard that morning. We got home and were just dead, we both laid on the couch wanting to be put out of our misery but just so that it didn't look like we didn't do anything that day we called like 20 people! And it got so boring super super quick, I definitely don't recommend getting sick on the mission because it sucked!!

Sunday was just that. Love going to church and had some meetings after that went pretty well! We went home and finished out the day with some calls and just trying to get over Saturdays sickness.

Crazy stuff is happening in Virginia!! If you haven't heard Walmart has been having some trouble, not to make y'all worried but I will remind you! I am a disciple of Jesus Christ!! Set apart as a full time missionary to bring to pass the blessings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!! Nothing can stand between me and this divine work!! I am a Missionary of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints!! But don't worry I won't do anything stupid cause God won't protect me from stupidity!! Anyways hope y'all had an amazing Thanksgiving!! Love you guys so much, ya'll truly don't understand how much you guys mean to me, everyone in my life who's made me who I am today!! Have a great week!!

-Elder Milius