Yo hello everybody! I hope all us well with everyone! I'm gonna make this one quick as I don't have that much time.
This week was an interesting one, it was definitely a grind. Every day we head out into the hot sun and stand outside walmart, Ross, target, gas stations and invite everyone we can to church. One really interesting thing about this area is it feels like we should be having a lot more success but everyone just says no to us. It's very sad when at the end of the day we don't have any new people to teach. But one thing I have truly come to know is success is not measured by the amount of people we find. It's about how dedicated we were to find, and even in the hardest longest days, joy is present as we focus on our desire. I'm coming close to the end of my mission and I've thought a lot back to the beginning of what it means to be a missionary and how to be a successful missionary. It's really enlightening to read and learn about a successful mission now in comparison to when I first started the work in 2022!
Anyways, some fun things that happened was our ZL lost his keys at district council and so we spent an hour driving around town looking for them, when we finally had the impression to go back to the church and boom there they were! Thursday we were gonna go shop because we needed food, but we were gonna street contact before. We'll that didn't last too long and we ended up getting kicked out before we could even go shop! So we had to drive across town to another Walmart to get groceries for that week haha! We did some service this week for a lady and then they fed us dinner. They gave us hash brown casserole! It was delicious, apparently that is a utah thing I guess. She also loaded us up with goodies before we left which was really nice! We had a long lesson with a recent convert of ours and it was a really good lesson. He talks a lot though so it was a long lesson. He is trying to prepare for everything a little more, he feels a little pressured about doing the Sacrament and or baptisms in the temple but he wanted to relearn everything that way he is more comfortable when time comes for him to do those things so that was good to be there to start teaching him again.
I got transfer news on Saturday and I am headed out of the fredericksburg area and I'm going down 30 minutes, closer to Richmond in a town called Ashland! I'm so excited, I'm back in the same district I was 1 year ago, we have the APs in our district and so I'm super excited to most likely finish out my mission there. I've got 2 transfers left so I'm at 3 months until I'm the one getting on a plane to go home. I don't know if I will be sad or happy but I hope that once I'm settled in my new area that I will just forget about it until the week of haha.
Sunday was my last Sunday in this area and it was super sad to say goodbye to all the members. We also got to go fishing today with a member and I got to say goodbye to Fernando who I helped get baptized in this area. I may have shed a little tear but this will definitely be a place I will visit when I come back!
Anyways that's all I got for yall! I hope your week was incredible! Happy happy father's day to all the dad's out there but especially to my dad who is an absolute beast of a person. I will always look up to him as someone I want to be. I seriously wouldn't be the person I am without his helping hand through many years of my life! So thanks dad!
Aight have a great week everyone! Talk to you later!
-Elder Milius
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