Monday after emails and packing and all that we biked to the Cantwells and had a Come, Follow Me lesson with them. I had to strap around my bike pump because my back tire was having another slow leak issue so we had to stop occasionally and pump my tire back up. After the lesson and saying goodbye, we came back to the apartment and finished off a few things and packing.
Tuesday was a long day really. We got up to North Little Rock at like 6:30 in the morning, said goodbye to Elder Horman, and we drove all the way to Memphis. We got there around 9:15-9:30 and I met Elder Hunter, who went to CH, was on the Basketball team, and graduated a year before me. He's pretty sweet. We then loaded my gear, and had a 1.5 hour drive up to Humboldt. During that trip we stopped by the hospital in Jackson, and visited someone who was supposed to be baptized on Sunday but had to get immediate surgery. We talked with her for a while, and then after we drove to Humboldt where we talked with her husband at Taco Bell. Then we went to the duplex where we lived, unloaded my gear, fixed my tube.. Again, then we got a few other things done and then we had a Come, Follow Me Study class with a few people that were baptized this past month/2 Sundays ago.
Wednesday we went out and visited a returning member and a less active member, they were really cool to talk with. After a few visits we went out finding and found a really cool guy who was interested in having us come back. Then we got picked up for dinner and had dinner with some members at a Mexican place. Then we went to the Church, where I met the Branch President and some others, and was going to have a lesson over Facebook but it sadly fell through. Then we came back home.
Thursday we got picked up and we went and did service for a while moving things around for a house that's going to be moved in soon. Then after we got dropped off, and we went out and did contact attempts/finding. A lot of the attempts failed but we came across a intersection, and I saw a lady mowing her lawn and kinda struggling, and I felt strongly to go help her, and then we mowed her front and back yard, it was awesome. It almost rained a little too and I was afraid it'll stop us half way through but luckily I prayed hard enough so it won't rain till I'm done(I was doing the back). Then we visited a few more people, found a person, then came back home.
Friday was pretty good. We visited people a little earlier in the day, then we came back and did Weekly Planning for a little. Afterwards we drove up to a town called Milan, and we parked in like a center area and biked to a few contact attempts that we felt like we should stop by, and it worked out really well! We found 4 new people doing it, and it was awesome! Then after all that we came back and finished the day.
Saturday was service filled as well. But before that we had a lesson with someone and answered a lot of his questions, and he really enjoyed it a lot. Then we came back, got picked up, and went to a huge Greenhouse facility and loaded a bunch of bags of dirt with Strawberries onto the truck and trailer. Then we came back to their house and unloaded some of it. After we came home, grabbed a few things at the store, made some cookies, drove up to Dyer (a town), but before that we did more service for a less active and had a really good discussion with them, they really enjoyed us helping them out a lot. We dropped off cookies at someones house we are working with, then we came back, did studies, and had a Zone Zoom Call. Then we came home and had Callins with Jackson and Dyersburg.
Sunday we had a lot of people who were supposed to come, but sadly none of them didn't.. BUT we did end up finding out that a visitor from Utah brought someone from work to Church who is kinda interested, so I'm excited to see where that goes. I met a lot more of the people at the Church. Then during it, a few of our appointments fell through and we got a little sad about that. After church we gave the Sacrament to someone, then we drove up to Milan, talked to a few people, then studied for another Bible Study we had with some members. Then we had dinner with them, talked about John 9 (one of my favorites), then we went to the church, had Call-Ins with the Zone Leaders, and ended the day.
I'm now at 9 months in my mission, it's crazy. I'm really excited to serve here in Trenton, and excited to help the people here. God lives. The Church is true, and nothing will break it down. No pathetic Anti, no bash, no hate, will stop me from saying this Church is true. Even if everyone left, I will still say the Book of Mormon is true. I bear that witness in his name, Jesus Christ, amen.
May God be with you all, and know that I am here. I love you all!
Elder Braxton Hotton
Attachments:
-Me and Elder Hunter
-Me during service
-Watch doggo
-Redneck Doorbell
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