Elder Craig, Future District Leader
Well this week was pretty alright. Our Mission President told Elder Craig that Elder Craig has some good experience and knows what the area needs. Additionally, we haven't been able to meet any of the people we are teaching and we are running low on people to visit. So we have started spending chunks of time only for street contacting, or talking to people on the street. Hopefully, we can use this to find new people to teach. So far the results have been alright. While street contacting doesn't have the best yields we have run so low on everything else that it is a good use of time.
Elder Craig and I had exchanges this week with Elder Dowell, Elder Korab and Elder Tonga. Elder Dowell and I stayed in Ashton Park and Elder Craig went to Hurley. We actually had a pretty good day. Elder Dowell is very experienced and really good at street contacting. He has also served in almost every zone so he has a wide variety of experience. Our area reminded him a lot of Folsom which is a very rich city. A lot of people there are very well off and don't like talking to missionaries. He gave a lot of good advice and seeing how he did things was very cool.
For district council this week, our district leader, (an Elder in charge a small group of missionaries, including me) Elder Dowell was late because of a service project they had in the morning. So he texted the zone leaders to put Elder Craig in charge till he got there. So suddenly, Elder Craig was put in charge of teaching 10 missionaries about teaching skills. He handled it very well and basically covered the exact same stuff Elder Dowell was planning to do. So for the rest of the day we joked that he would be the next district leader (which Elder Craig really doesn't want to do).
Another fun thing that happened this week was dinner with the Simmons (one of the members in our ward). Earlier they asked us if there was anything we wanted for dinner. Elder Craig asked if we could have burgers, and not just any burger but big, juicy burgers. He hasn't had any burgers like that since he left home. And the Simmons delivered, their son-in-law made some really good big burgers. It was a very good dinner.
I also got a tiny bit of travel news! They basically just asked me to sign a document and email a scan back to them. I could kinda understand it but I used a photo to scan the text and translate. I am glad I did because it was a pretty legal sounding document and basically said that I am a good person, I will be serving and proselyting and all of my expenses will be taken care of. I don't know my status on anything else but this is the first news of any kind.
One thing Elder Dowell talked about on exchanges was looking forward in the area. It is easy to look at each day and see how not much is happening. When we look forward we can see where things are going and have a good outlook on the future. Hard work pays off. That is a large part of missionary work, working no matter what. This effort is never easy but all important.
Elder Craig and I had exchanges this week with Elder Dowell, Elder Korab and Elder Tonga. Elder Dowell and I stayed in Ashton Park and Elder Craig went to Hurley. We actually had a pretty good day. Elder Dowell is very experienced and really good at street contacting. He has also served in almost every zone so he has a wide variety of experience. Our area reminded him a lot of Folsom which is a very rich city. A lot of people there are very well off and don't like talking to missionaries. He gave a lot of good advice and seeing how he did things was very cool.
For district council this week, our district leader, (an Elder in charge a small group of missionaries, including me) Elder Dowell was late because of a service project they had in the morning. So he texted the zone leaders to put Elder Craig in charge till he got there. So suddenly, Elder Craig was put in charge of teaching 10 missionaries about teaching skills. He handled it very well and basically covered the exact same stuff Elder Dowell was planning to do. So for the rest of the day we joked that he would be the next district leader (which Elder Craig really doesn't want to do).
Another fun thing that happened this week was dinner with the Simmons (one of the members in our ward). Earlier they asked us if there was anything we wanted for dinner. Elder Craig asked if we could have burgers, and not just any burger but big, juicy burgers. He hasn't had any burgers like that since he left home. And the Simmons delivered, their son-in-law made some really good big burgers. It was a very good dinner.
I also got a tiny bit of travel news! They basically just asked me to sign a document and email a scan back to them. I could kinda understand it but I used a photo to scan the text and translate. I am glad I did because it was a pretty legal sounding document and basically said that I am a good person, I will be serving and proselyting and all of my expenses will be taken care of. I don't know my status on anything else but this is the first news of any kind.
One thing Elder Dowell talked about on exchanges was looking forward in the area. It is easy to look at each day and see how not much is happening. When we look forward we can see where things are going and have a good outlook on the future. Hard work pays off. That is a large part of missionary work, working no matter what. This effort is never easy but all important.
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| Elder Craig with the big juicy burgers |
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