I was so excited for church yesterday and got to meet many of
the members in the ward. I felt so welcomed and loved here and can't
wait to get to work with them. There hasn't been a single baptism in
either one of our wards here in over 6 months so we've got some work to
do! My companion and I have been going through our area books and have
made up a huge list of people to go and visit. We created a system of
organizing each person on our list by area and then have boxes to mark
when we visited, if they're interested, and a side box for notes. We
then mapped out mini area's within our boundaries and created routes to
take so that we can use the least amount of miles, or walk the routes to
save miles. I'm really excited about our system and we've hoping to be
able to start using by tomorrow. One of our goals as companions is to
really focus in on the ward and it's members, part members, and less
actives. Since arriving in the field I've found that a large part of
missionary success comes from those people and so we're trying to give
it the best shot we've got. Plus we've already doubled the number of
lessons in a week that this area has seen in a while.
Living with members has definitely been a different feel for me
but I love it! We live with the Baldwin family who have helped me to
feel right at home. It's also great just having my companion with me
rather than another set of missionaries because we're able to stay more
focused with far less distractions during our studies. I love our new
ward missionary leaders and bishops and can already tell that they're
going to be a huge help in the missionary work.
So time for funny story of the week. My companion and I went to
go stop by a less active member in the ward who is Hawaiian. He asked if
we had a dinner that night (which we didn't) and then proceeded to feed
us...and feed us...and feed us. Ha he would bring us a dish and just as
we would start to eat it he'd microwave something else and bring it out
to us to eat. We ended up with soup, chicken, hot dogs, salad, spinach,
some weird vegetable, rice, beans, and kimchi. Now kimchi for those of
you who don't know is rotting cabbage and is a very acquired taste. I
luckily recognized the dish from our ward mission leader in our last
area who was making (rotting) some in a jar and had us smell it.
GROSS!!! My poor companion however did not know what it was and grabbed a
bit nearly throwing it right back up. I grabbed some to be polite and
when our host went to go make us some more food I mixed it in with my
soup and moved on to the next dish :)
Well like I said I'm super excited to be here and to serve with
my new companion. I can't wait to skype in a week and I'll give you a
call that day while we get it all set up. I'm not sure what time it'll
be exactly but it should be sometime between 10-4 our time on Christmas
day. Love you,
Elder Reeves
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