WEDNESDAY (7/31/24): After doing our laundry, cleaning up, working out (always), we headed up to Soledad to hang out with Kevin and Johnny at their house. Johnny was playing Just Dance which was extremely entertaining haha. Johnny wanted a cheeseburger afterwards, so we took him to Burger King. After, we decided to go over to a ginormous train tunnel that sits adjacent to the fields. Me and Elder Isaacson climbed on top of it and got some dope pictures. Afterwards, we went shopping and talked to our families at the chapel. Once P-Day ended, we talked with Bishop Cottman and helped Susana get her temple recommend. We also had a missionary correlation meeting where we talked about our progressing friends and members we were currently working with. Afterwards, we went and tried visiting one of our inactive members named Lysette at her house. As soon as we knocked on her door, her mom chewed us out. She was furious at us for coming to her house, even though we had confirmed it previously with Lysette, and was cussing us out. She slammed the door so hard that the entire house shook! I had never been yelled at or cussed like that at all during my mission; it was super entertaining haha. I remained calm and tried explaining to her the situation, but she wasn't having it. I'll definitely be praying for Lysette and her mom 🤣; hopefully one day we can meet with her! After, we ended by teaching Susana about the importance of prayer once again.
THURSDAY (8/1/24): We started the day by helping transport Hermano Villa to his chair. The Villas were celebrating their 26th wedding anniversary today! They were going to Carmel by the Sea to have dinner and visit the area. After helping the Villas, we went up to Tony's to help him change his car oil, clean up his garage, and help unscrew his pool table. The pool table is extremely heavy as it is made of concrete. We got it ready to move, but we decided to try and move it another time when we could have some more help. We also helped Tony get his temple recommend. After, we went and taught some people we had found. We taught our friend Yoland about the fall of Adam and Eve and the need of opposition in all things. We tried visiting a couple people but didn't have much success afterwards. We tried visiting Generado and Jessica, but we had caught them at a bad time. From what we could tell, they were getting evicted; they told us that they were moving to Soleded. We're gonna try and figure out their situation. We ended the night by helping Hermano Villa again and teaching Clemente and Irma. We had a fantastic lesson with them! We taught them about the Plan of Salvation (up until the Kingdoms of Glory) and Hermano Mateo was able to give Irma a blessing. She was still recovering from her recent eye surgery. Hermano Mateo gave her a fantastic blessing; Irma was really moved by the spirit!FRIDAY (8/2/24): We had Zone Conference today in Salinas. We talked about the importance of prayer and making it a priority in our lives. We also were able to participate in trainings run by the Zone Leaders and STLs. After Zone Conference, we headed back up to Greenfield. Zone Conference always takes up most of the day, so we weren't able to get much done.
After daily contacting, we met a cool man while trying to look for our friends, named Andreas. We explained to him the Book of Mormon and the importance of prayer and left him 2 Nephi 32. After finding, we had a lesson with one of the friends that Elder Paxman and Elder Bailey De Jesus had found on exchanges named Eloise. We taught her about prayer and read from Alma 37:37; she has a daughter named Kimberly who is absolutely adorable; and that's saying something because I'm not a fan of little kids 🤣. We ended the night by talking with Susana and helping her out with some things she was going through.SATURDAY (8/3/24): We were supposed to go up to the temple, but we decided not to go since none of our recent converts or friends were able to go. After finding in the morning, we visited with Silivia for a little while. We talked with her a while about all kinds of things 🤣. She had some parrots, and we named them after ourselves. After daily contacting, we visited with an inactive member named Jesus. He's only 12 and doesn't have much support from him family or friends; he's super cool though! We just invited him to church: we'll see if he comes! After, we visited with Freddy to see how he was doing. He's still trying to apply for a job currently and asked us for help with his application; we're gonna plan a day to help him write and plan it out. We also taught him about fasting and invited him to fast for Fast Sunday. After, we visited with Fransico and Simon. I massaged his neck and shoulder while Elder Paxman worked on his leg; we also watched Book of Mormon videos while doing this 🤣. After, we visited with Roy and talked with him for a while. Roy is an inactive member who is trying to get back to church; it's hard for him since his wife his Catholic. We talked with him and then gave him a blessing since he currently had pneumonia. After, our friend Camilo invited us into his house! We taught about him the Restoration and the need of Priesthood keys! We bore our testimonies on the Book of Mormon and left him 2 Nephi 32 to read! After, we stopped by Elvira and Lupita's house and invited them to church! We ended the night by talking it up with Susana and re-teaching her about the Sacrament, covenants, and the importance of renewing our covenants each week.
SUNDAY (8/4/24): For church today, it was combined with the Spanish branch and the English ward. During the Sacrament, the Stake President was present. He announced that the Spanish group would be converted into a Branch! I'm glad the group became a branch, but I don't know if the group is big enough yet. I'm not the one in charge though, I just work here 🤣. The Branch President is a super solid guy! They'll do great; they just have a lot of work ahead of them!
After, me and Elder Paxman had weekly planning. After planning our week, we visited with Freddy. We brought him some ties to wear and talked a little more about his job situation. He's pretty frustrated about his whole situation since he hasn't been able to get a job yet; we encouraged him to continue trying and we told him to put his trust in God and God's timing; he understood and agreed with us. After, we tried visiting Brian and Cesar, but they were at the park. After, we tried visiting Elvira, but she and Lupita were heading to a party or something. We just played soccer with their kids instead. We ended the night by teaching one of the sisters' drunk friends about the Holy Ghost 🤣; after, we cooked up some pizzas with Tony and Adri. We used the pizza oven that we helped Tony get! They were delicious! Tony's businesses is going to do fantastic! He starts it up on August 28th!
MONDAY (8/5/24): We had a fire District Council this morning! We talked about sacrifice and watched the "Stonecutter"! It's the story of John Rowe Moyle: the man who settled Alpine, Utah, (where I live) and how he traveled back and forth from SLC and Alpine for work, even after losing his leg! It's a fantastic short film! Sacrifice is giving up something for something greater in return! After doing daily contact, we went finding! We talked with Christian and his family and talked a little more with them about the Book of Mormon. After, we found some really cool people in an apartment complex! After we tried visiting Freddy, but he wasn't home; however, we had a really good lesson with our friend Andreas. He invited us into his garage to teach him. We taught him how to pray and left him with 2 Nephi 32 to read. He knows very little about God and Jesus Christ, so he's really interested in learning more about what we're teaching him! He's also really into animals! He was currently taking/nurturing chickens in his backyard; he told us he'd show us his backyard the next time we passed by. After, we went over to Silvia's house and made pupusas with her! After, we tried visiting some people but none of them were home. We ended the night by visiting Susana and read a little bit from the Book of Mormon.TUESDAY (8/6/24): We had to go up to Salinas today to get our car fixed. While waiting for our car to be fixed, we went to the Salinas Chapel to do daily contact. They were also doing a blood drive while we there. Apparently, one of the workers said that she smelled gasoline, so they evacuated the whole building. Me and Elder Paxman knew that she was being crazy, so we stayed inside. The fire department came and checked out the whole building and surprisingly enough, there was no gas leak. After getting our car back (which took up a good chunk of the day, we went and found some people. After, we had a long phone call with Gabriel. Gabriel was upset how everyone ignored him last Sunday and how no one wanted to talk to him. Apparently, he has a lot of problems with some of the members in the Branch and the Ward; Gabriel brought up a lot of good points (many which I agree with; the people are very unwelcoming towards new members, returning members, etc.) For some reason, the ward and the branch are not unified at all! But at the same time, Gabriel experiences mental challenges from years of drug abuse; Gabriel told me I was the only missionary he liked since I had a big heart. After Gabriel, we taught English Class and then we ended the night by visiting Susana again and re-teaching her the Restoration. Elder Copeland
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