Monday: P-Day! Haha. I love P-Day. After P-Day, we had a family home evening with a member. We taught about the plan of salvation, the spirit world, and then about ghosts (Halloween themed!). We then made ghosts out of tissues and Tootsie Pops. Very fun.
Tuesday, we had our district meeting. It was a good one. We had a training on accountability, and were challenged to try to be more accountable for our missionary efforts. I love the aspect of accountability in missionary work. We report our key indicators every week, we report on our stewardship (investigators and the area) every week at district meeting, and we report to the mission president every Monday. Not only that, but we have president interviews every three months. Most importantly, we report to the Lord every evening.
In the evening, since we had plenty of miles left for the month, we headed down to the small town of Red Bud, and met a less active member who was very sweet.
Wednesday, we spent a lot of time tracting. This is the area where I have tracted the most! It's definitely interesting. I'm grateful for the experience! We found a new investigator: he's an ordained minister, a former engineer for the government, and also totally won the lottery. Yep, you meet some interesting people on your mission!
Thursday, we also did a lot of driving :) We met with one of our investigators, and had a good talk with her. She's very sweet, but also quite nuts. It's not a good sign when you mention her to a neighbor and they say, "Oh. Her?"
Oh well! Everyone gets a chance to receive the gospel!
Friday, we had weekly planning, and went tracting before we were parked for Halloween. It was a good tracting session, we set two return appointments! And one of the people that we met had gone to the church for about a year earlier in her life, and she said that she'd definitely be interested in coming back! We're excited for that :)
Halloween was pretty great. A family invited both sets of missionaries over for the evening, and we had pizza and birthday cake, and played pool. Guess what: I stink at pool. No surprise there!
Sister Auble and I dressed up:
Can you guess what we went as?
If you guessed hipster missionaries, you're right! haha.
We cultivated those bored expressions.
Saturday was interesting. The highlight was the branch activity, it was a Trunk or Treat/Chili Cook-off. For the second time on my mission, I judged a chili cook off. Which was fun. I dressed up as a hipster again--different outfit--but I don't have a picture of it. I'll try to get it from one of the members who took pictures.
Sunday, Church! We had a good time there, of course. We spent the day contacting potential investigators, and set a return appointment. Dinner was with the branch mission leader's family, which is actually the first time that I've had dinner at my mission leader's house while I've been on my mission! Fun fact :)
In my personal study, I've been studying a lot in the first lesson, the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I love the first lesson. Really, the first lesson has parts from all of the lessons in it. Because of the Restoration, we have knowledge of God's plan for us, the plan of salvation. Because of the Restoration, we know the way that Jesus Christ has laid out for us. We know the proper manner of baptism. We know the commandments God has give us. We can go to the temple and be further instructed. I'm so grateful for the message of the Restoration, and I'm so lucky to be out here sharing it! I think I've been more reflective over my mission since my year mark, because I'm finally realizing how rapidly it goes, and I can see more and more distinctively the ways that I've changed and grown. I love sharing the gospel.
Hope you are all doing well! Oh, a highlight from this morning: I got to call Sister Edgel because it was her birthday and I wanted to surprise her :) She got to fill me in on Paris, and how she's been doing. There have been great things happening there, which is so much fun to hear about!
Love
Sister Barret
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