Monday March 28, 2016 - The one with baking cakes and baked people

This has been a really great week here in Danville!We have had some good experiences and some funny ones, where to begin?I was able to go on two different exchanges this week. The first onewas with our District Leader, Elder Hungrige. He is a really greatmissionary and we had a good time together. They serve in the leastpopulated area of our mission so when we went "tracting" it involved acar and we talked to three people in one hour. Crazy stuff....

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Monday March 21, 2016 - The one where we go down the rabbit hole

This has been a very strange week. It was super slow at the beginning of the week but picked up a lot by the end. A few highlights... Hanging out in Caswell County This week featured me having a 'quarter life crisis'. It's a term Ipicked up from a friend and is a pretty accurate description . We wereteaching a recent convert and I realized that it was less than fivemonths until I turned twenty and nine months until I finished mymission.! It...

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Monday March 14, 2016 - The one with Jam sessions and Chinese

This has been a great week in Danville. We have been extremely busy sonot a whole lot of crazy stuff happened.First, some miracles. After having the spiritual experience insacrament meeting that I described last week something I didn't mention was thefeeling of something good to come. That was realized during this week.Heavenly Father dropped tons or miracle people out of the sky onto usand we just were swimming in blessings. Here are a few stories to giveyou an idea.We got a referral from a young woman in the Caswell ward. He is 17 andlives in...

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Monday March 7, 2016 - The one where I share my thoughts...

This has been a wonderful week here in Danville.Tuesday morning was very spontaneous. We only had one set appointmentand it fell through so we decided we would got try and visit this onehouse I felt inspired a few weeks back to go knock on. When we werewalking up we saw this crazy looking man with a huge beard outsidemoving things. He was loading stuff up into a truck. We introducedourselves and asked if we could help, he accepted.This man introduced himself as Captain Bob. I'm not sure if he isactually a sailor but he sure cussed like one. We...

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Monday February 29, 2016 - The one with Tornados

This has been a good week here in Danville! We been continuing thefinding frenzies and we've been blessed to have Heavenly Father place manypeople in our path. Most of the new investigators we found last weekare referrals that we've received from current investigators. We juststart teaching people and expand from there!We also received transfer calls yesterday. Elder Anderson and I willbe staying as well as Elder Everett. Elder Earnest is leaving...

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Monday February 22, 2016 - The one where the old lady hits on us

This has been a bit of a weird week. It's gone by really fast with theshorter week due P-day being on Tuesday and lots of stuff happening.Wednesday was full of the usual. We have had a ton of appointmentscancel or be no shows this week. It's crazy. Way more than normal.Probably close to a dozen overall. Buts it's okay because we've justgone out and found more people.Thursday I went on exchange with our district leader. It's his lasttransfer so he goes home in a couple weeks. We did service on exchange.  We were cleaning out a basement...

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