This week. Was a week. A packed week. Never before has a week been so busy. The last few days we haven't even done our personal/companionship studies because we've been here there and everywhere.
Well last p-day we played basketball with the Holland Park Elders and a couple less active youth for a couple hours, that was lots of fun. My companion is super good and can dunk so I made sure he was on my team. His dad is this motivational speaker guy named Chad Hymas. So if you want to look him up, his son is my companion. We had dinner with bishop Rota, and he's a really cool guy.
Tuesday we had district meeting and gave both the sisters blessings. Found out Sister Faulafo's name is Pioneer Sesquicentennial. She was born in 1997, which is the sesquicentennial (150 years) anniversary of the pioneers arriving in salt lake, hence the name. It's a cool as name.
We had a really great lesson with our recent convert Lachlan about the priesthood. It's a very real power. I've given a few blessings the last week or two and let me just say-the Spirit really does give you the words to say. I hear stuff coming out of my mouth that I never would have thought I would say but there it is.
The next couple days we spent visiting a lot of people, including a part member family with a single dad and a couple kids. Friday we had mission leadership council, which is where all the zone leaders and sister training leaders get together. The zone leaders stand up and go over the numbers for their zone in the last month, and talk about a strength, a weakness, and how they're going to improve the next month. Then they bring up any questions or concerns that everyone can talk about. Then the mission president gets up and gives some training after everyone stands accountable. It was my first one. The whole thing goes 5 or 6 hours. President McSwain talked about from a missionary perspective, the Brethren want to shift the focus from teaching families to teaching youth and YSA, since the greater percentage of converts are coming from that age group. Saturday we did some service mowing a lawn and helping the youth out with a car wash fundraiser for FSY (for the strength of youth). It's kind of like EFY but it's in Australia and it's only every few years.Later we got to go out to the islands, which is always a blast. Sunday was busy busy busy too. We had church and then we went around to the bishops with the stake president to talk about how they feel about the missionaries in their wards and what we can do to help. And we had not one, but TWO DINNER APPOINTMENTS. The first was with a member who always feeds us the 30th of every month. His less active grandson bought Domino's for us and me and my companion were like....is it a sin to eat this??? Do our garments become stained if we partake of this unholy pizza purchased on the sabbath? Of course, we ate it, and then we went to the Williams and had dinner with them. Steak and potatoes. And it wasn't until then that I realized I hadn't had baked potatoes in AGES. So yeah. Then we spent the last couple hours of the night doing call-ins. So we were just swamped. Absolutely.
Elder Cummings
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