So this week was sorta interesting, there was a lot that happened but not a lot that happened if that makes sense. But the transfer news has been received and I found out that I'm not only staying in my area but I'm recieveing a new missionary straight out the MTC! Absolutely wild. To be honest this is gonna be my first time actually training, I follow up trained a visa waiter a couple transfers back but I was in a trio and he was a beast so I didn't feel like I was training him. But now im gonna be alone with a kid, and he's gonna be literally the freshest out the MTC! So that's the crazy news that will soon come to be next Friday!
But this week was good! Monday night we had dinner with a family in the ward and it was awesome, we had a great conversation about everything relating to the afterlife and all that. We got deep into Doctrine which is cool to try and understand with our very narrow minded minds.
Tuesday was a long day, we had a lot of finding to do which didn't see for much success unfortunately, but the Wednesday we had an exchange with Providence and I got to go with my DL! We had to bike though and lemme tell you, we had a long bike ride today. In the end we biked prolly bout 20 miles round trip all over the area! It was nuts. We did teach a very interesting member though, he made us monkey tails which is apparently some sparkling water and fruit juice, idk it was pretty good. Then we had an awesome book of mormon study with this one lady and it went well. We read through 2 Nephi 4 and answered her questions about what each phrase meant spiritually. Then we had a member dinner so that was a great way to end out the night.
Thursday was also a rough day, we had three lessons planned with three of our most progressing friends and who would have guessed that they all fell through! It was kinda frustrating especially because it all fell through right at the beginning of the day. So we had weekly planning instead and knocked some doors with one of our members, then we got to go out to dinner with this member and he took us to a pizza restaurant in Chesapeake! It definitely helped our spirits.
Friday was wild!! We had district council today and throughout the whole transfer, we had some struggles in our district with being diligent, and I'm not saying we were perfect either but there definitely was others who needed to improve. So my comp gave a though and basically just dropped the ball that we aren't working hard enough and that we shouldn't have to be worried about "running faster than you have strength" because we all weren't running our fastest. It kinda made some of the missionaries in our district mad, there was lots of tension all day. But it hyped me up honestly and that night we grinded the find like crazy!!
Saturday was prolly one of the hardest days but the most rewarding, like last week. Idk what it is but Saturday is just always hard for me. We were dragging ourselves along all day, not finding anyone but continuing to find. Then we called it a night to go home and call one our friends we met the first night I was here. Holy nuts!! We had an amazing lesson with him, we had a member join our call, the spirit was so strong especially at the end because he kinda just gave so much thanks for us talking to him and teaching him. He said he will forever remember the day we pulled up in our car on a dark night to come out to talk to him! It was awesome, then our member bore a strong testimony and we ended with ours as well! It was so strong and I still remember the night we met him. We had one of our members question whether or not we should go visit this one area but I said let's just do it! And when we arrived I saw this guy and felt so strongly to talk to him, so I did and now here we are!
It's so cool how the lord puts people in our lives and places them perfectly at the right time for us to meet! God truly is in this work, he seriously isn't gonna let it fail and even when it's excruciatingly hard. It's worth it when you have a lesson like that.
Anyways this is quite the email so ima end it here! Love everyone! Talk to everyone next week when I have a child with me!!!
-Elder Milius
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