Hey!
In regards to me telling you I crashed last week, it was
nothing
dramatic. Basically, there was an uneven piece of sidewalk
and a
particularly low hanging branch that seemed to know exactly
where to
hit me. Essentially, it hit my helmet, knocked me off balance,
my
front wheel hit the chunk of protruding cement, and I fell
over onto a
patch of grass. No harm, no staining on my clothing,
nothing.
This week, was a interesting one in the sense that, I, me, the Hagen
kid, am serving in a new ward. And because of such, being in
a new
ward, and technology being wonky, everyone (investigators,
less
actives, etc, etc,) In our app on our iPads called the area
book,
disappeared, because
we where no longer missionaries of the Clover
Hill ward, and had been "transferred" into the
Brandermill ward, in
which at the time of writing this email, had no data
connected to it.
And so, we had nothing really to do but look around and try
to find
something for the first couple days.
Monday, was p-day, and Halloween. And since it was p-day and
Halloween, the first half of the day was a spent as a normal
p-day.
But the normal afternoon "end of p-day", was an
mandatory In doors by
5pm, in which everyone was told to clean their apartments in
the
allotted 4 hours... apartments being the key word, cause, I
live in a
house.... it's a little bigger... but I digress. We spent a
majority
of our time cleaning out the studio apartment below our home
in which
missionaries used to stay in until they got permission to
move to the
upstairs. But let me tell you, that apartment, was trashed,
it reeked
of mold, garbage and moldy clothing where thrown a muck, and
the worst
part, in my opinion, was the thousands of spiders we ended
up having
to kill.
So In short we did nothing but clean our home, get
groceries, and
email. The day was dubbed "Hallowclean" by the
mission office.
Tuesday, we went to our regularly scheduled appointments
with those we
where teaching that where still within our ward boundaries,
and the
rest of the day we spent finishing cleaning, because again,
I live in
a house, not an apartment, and there only is two of us. I do
want to
pause and mention I found a talk by Thomas s Monson that I
had been
looking for, it is entitled "finding our way
home".
Wednesday, I woke up in the morning at 7 by mistake,
showered, cut my
lip shaving, studied, and left our home around 11. We helped
a recent
convert and a member repair a sliding door, ate lunch, and
headed
towards the Brandermill neighborhood to see if we could go
talk to a
recent investigator that Elder Scott knew of. She wasn't
home. So we
went to the church. Around 6 we went on an blitz, which, is
when we
exchange just for a couple hours, we went with the
Manchester elders
to meet new members that we had acquired during the boundary
change,
Thursday was nothing special, just an average day of biking
and more biking.
Friday, was a special day. Friday, was a day in the mission
we call,
"return and report". Essentially, all new
missionaries and their
trainers, head to Richmond to discuss our first 4 weeks, and
to hear
some talks and instructions. Afterwards, we are dismissed
with a
temporary companion to head into downtown Richmond to go
street
contacting. My temporary companion was one of the two APs (assistants
to the president). After street contacting for about an hour
and a
half, we got a ride home, and went to a zone meeting which
used up the
rest of our day.
Saturday, was a special day, it was the day we got ready for
service,
in our Sunday whites. So Saturday morning, we helped a lady
move, and
the elders and my companion thought it would only take 30 or
so
minutes, so we shouldn't worry ourselves in changing into
our service
clothes. nay nay, we where there for 2 hours moving stuff
through hair
and dust and all matter of white shirt staining stuff. We
finished,
the lady (a non member) thanked us, tearing up a bit, and we
left.
That afternoon, elder Scott and I had nothing planned, so we
decided
to go and tract Brandermill, again. And on our way over, we
got a call
from a member of our ward, a less active, asking if we could
help him
move garbage into the back of his truck. And without
changing, we
reared our bikes towards his home. After we finished, the
less active
being a combat engineer, where able to shoot off a round out
out of a
potato gun. He told us a story of how he almost accidentally
shot down
a helicopter with the same gun we fired, and a plastic bag
wrapped in
duct tape.
Sunday, It was stake conference, the Brandermill ward was
sustained,
and some really good talks that I wish I where taking notes
on, where
given. Sunday night, we had our first baptism.
So, a little explanation about this baptism. This
investigator, had
been an investigator for what I had been told had been about
3 years,
being an older gentleman, he was a bit stubborn when it came
to the
concept of being baptized. He, wasn't our investigator
directly... he
was within our area, but didn't want to talk to the elders,
he only
allowed visits from the sisters, whom where in the same ward
at the
time, and only recently, he has opened up to the elders.
Now, elder
Scott told me that PJ, the name of the investigator, had no
intention
of being baptized before the previous transfer. Anyway, One
Sunday, he
was feeling extremely sick, and he had an impression that he
should
ask for a blessing. And so he was given one by a couple
members in our
ward. The next day he woke up, the illness was gone, and he
had been
touched by the spirit.
Me and elder Scott got to preside as the witnesses.
And, now it is Monday the 7th, p-day once again, the end, of
another
week, love all ya! Have a good week!
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