Tuesday was a great day! We had district meeting, which was a lot of fun and enlightening. We also had the interviews all day long. President Chesnut changed the way that interviews work. Now ever Sister Training Leader gets 30 minuets to train each of her companionship's that she covers, and the Zone Leaders get 30 minutes to train each companionship of Elders. So we did 8 thirty minute training! We started at 9 and finished at 5... That honestly took a lot out of us to do so many. We were really tired afterwords, but we were so glad that we had done it! We got to know the zone sooooo much better. We were able to laugh with them, cry with them, and teach with them. We loved every moment of it! And then that night we were to go on exchanges with the Washoe Valley Elders. I was with Elder McGee and we had a TON of fun together. It was just like old times when we were in the same district back in Fallon! We had "Pillow Talk" till midnight and we talked every spare moment of Wednesday! We talked about just every subject imaginable. It was a lot of fun to be with him again. We got to talk with everyone we saw and I was able to answer some of his questions with regards to his responsibility as a district leader.
Thursday was Turkey day. It started off with a zone breakfast at the Wanless home. Strange side note: Their nephew is in my Grandparents Ward. But we ate lots of food. Had a "snowball" fight with large cotton balls. We had two dinners. One at our bishopric members house, and the other at a families house who is in a nearby ward. The bishopric member lived in Cold Springs, so I got to point out to Elder Wegelin all the cool stuff up there. Thursday night we started an exchange with The Marina Elders. Elder Schloemer came with me into the YSA!
We saw tons of miracles on Friday! So turns out, walking on campus on Black Friday does not work. There is no one there at all! But we talked with everyone we could and taught a super sweet Plan of Salvation lesson to our investigator Chloe. They had some whiteboards in their living room, so I got to draw the plan out, and got to draw a gate and a straight and narrow way(Run on sentence I know). It was a ton of fun! She understood it and we were able to answer her questions about works and necessity of baptism super well. We were panning on one member present, ended up having four! Including the ward mission leader. It was a solid time! Then we ended that exchange and began another one with the Skyline Elders. I was with Elder Jones in his area. So we did a little flip flop Elder Wegelin and I.
We saw good things happen with Elder Jones too. We enjoyed the time getting to know each other better. I was able to answer tons of misc questions about every subject! We talked with everyone and had fun doing it!
Sunday was a good day too. We gave talks in Sacrament meeting about the #LIGHTtheWORLD campaign. The ward has responded super well to it, and we will be leading the FHE tonight with a cool activity involving balloons and pass along cards.
We also got to teach 3 kids who were from the local community college who had to observe a church service for a world religion class! It was a lot of fun! And one of the kids was actually interested too! He kept asking question after question and his friend made a remark about how this is the most he's talked all year. And he said something about actually being interested in this.
Also, we got to have a lesson with a less active named Cii Maama. He is a tongan guy who wants to come back to church It was a pass off with the Sisters because they had been teaching him in the Tongan ward, but he wants to go to the YSA ward. It was a slap in the face for him with some of the scriptures used, but he loved that. We talked about the "Holy Habits and Righteous routines" that Elder Oaks had mentioned in the Face to Face. We will be meeting with him again tonight. He is excited to work with us. In the language of our Ward Mission Leader, he is a "homie".
Also got a new temple recommend. Now I have a Nevada Reno Mission one!
The Lord does provide! We love this work and it never stops!
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