Hi everyone! Sorry about the big phooey last week that prevented me from being able to write you guys! Not too much important stuff happened that week (let's just go with that).
So last Wednesday was when we kinda just sat around hoping transfers would happen, but they got postponed till Thursday, so we went from the temple to dinner at the Dickens', which was really nice.
Thursday we went up to Inwood for transfers, and since transfers had been delayed, there wasn't really a transfer meeting, it was just a "here's your new companion, go back to work," sort of affair, so that was fun. We had several appointments lined up, but transfer meeting kind of quashed a couple of them, then one guy completely dropped us and hasn't responded since (a guy we met and started teaching during the nonexistent week), so we went to church and did some online proselyting. We then had yet another appointment cancel on us and get delayed till next Tuesday. Bleh. We then did our weekly planning, then had a lesson with Joseph, and then we had dinner and went home.
Friday we had a lesson on Skype with Vlad (the guy from Usinsk, Russia that we've been teaching after he reached out to Elder Wang because he lives 2000 miles from the nearest chapel), and we taught the Restoration.
Saturday we had correlation meeting with Bro. Barrett in the morning, then helped out with the hermanas' online event, the went over to Anthony/Norka's and finished teaching him the rest of the commandments (10 commandments, law of chastity, word of wisdom, and tithing all in one lesson, phew), and then committed him to keeping all of them. Norka is deadset on fattening us up, so she keeps giving us massive amounts of food. Oof. I have never eaten so much in my life. After that we went to go visit Marcus, but he still wasn't around. We then went to finalize what we were doing for our online event, and then we went to the Webbs for dinner.
Sunday was good, Elder Jensen did his first baptismal interview as a district leader for Elder Higbee and Kroff's investigator, while I went to ward council and reported on Anthony. His baptism is set for this Saturday, so we had a lot to get ready. We then had church (Anthony, Norka, Alex, and Isaac came!), and we had an Area Seventy visiting named Elder Jeffrey Olson. I got to talk with him a little bit before the meetings (not realizing he wasn't just some random visitor since he was just standing in the foyer), and we talked about how our work was going between iPads and regular work and stuff. He gave a great talk in sacrament on service, and how one of our baptismal covenants is to serve others. I really enjoyed it. Anthony got to meet with Bishop Yamada in the second hour, and Bishop talked to him about the priesthood. We started to outline the baptismal program, and then we went to priesthood, which was on faith. We then went to Anthony and Norka's again after church to go through the interview questions with him to help get him ready, and then practiced the baptizing motions with him. We'll see how it works out, and he wants me to baptize him!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so excited and I'm so happy for him making this decisions till and just AHHHHHHH SO MUCH HAPPY! Anyhow, we stayed there for most of the evening between getting stuffed and doing baptism stuff, so we went home after that.
Monday we had Anthony's baptismal interview at 8:30 so we could get it done before he went for work and before we had district meeting, and Elder Kroff interviewed him. Anthony passed! Norka also fixed us breakfast (I'm legitimately surprised I'm not like 20 pounds heavier than last week), and then we went to district meeting. We then had lunch, wrote up some pass along cards, did a little street contacting and lookups, went to dinner, then went home.
Yesterday, we had studies in the morning, went to go do mail pickup in the afternoon as well as give Sister Laititi another blessing, then we went to go deliver some hair cutting stuff to Elder Schneider, then we went and did our online event (but since no one but Isaac showed up, we just taught him), and then we went to the hospital to go give an older lady a blessing. She was the grandmother of the little girl we gave a blessing to on the Sunday of the week that didn't exist. We then came home from there.
Today, we did our laundry and came out here to email, and then we're going to the museum of natural history, and have an appointment with Alex and then dinner with the Kunzlers.
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