Service Day in Jamestown--
Picture is from Danica (Gibson) Flake
Buenos!
Well, we had a good week, but man it went by fast! The work is going well here, well, kind of. Between our member presents, less actives, and other lessons, we ended up teaching a total of 18 lessons, which was kind of crazy. It's just so weird though because I'm teaching more lessons per week than I ever have on my mission, but we just seem to have no luck getting back in with people. So we teach a lot of first lessons, but nobody has really progressed further than that. We were hoping to have one guy at church, but he didn't come, which was a bummer. Also, J has dropped off the map. He isn't responding to any of our calls or texts, so we don't know what's up with him. So, that's kind of where the work is at right now.
On Tuesday, we had exchanges. I went to Jamestown with our district leader, Elder W. Elder W is this total country hick, so he gets along great with the people in Jamestown, haha. It's mostly farmland out there. We did service for pretty much the whole day. During the morning we worked at a local food bank which was fun. Then, this member Bro. M drove us around to different service things for the rest of the day. We helped an 80 year old lady fix her gutters. Elder W was just climbing all over the roof. He did most of the work, I was just watching him go. Then we visited this family, the Flake's. Turns out, Sister Flake is from Canby!! Back then, her name was Danica Gibson, and she was totally friends with Alyssa back in high school! She started naming off all these families we both knew, Langford's, Porter's, Loveland's, Doman's, Price's, Perez's. It was so cool. So, we messaged Alyssa on Facebook that day, I don't know if she told you. We helped rotor-till a spot for the Flake's to put in a garden. After a day of service, we wrapped up with dinner at the Miller's. Sis. Miller made these awesome Sloppy Joes. It was a fun day.
With Elder W in Jamestown
On Thursday, we went up and spent the whole day in Tompkinsville, KY. Yeah, it's technically in our area, so we've been saving up some miles to go out there (By the end of the day we had actually gone just over 160 miles...). Despite the dumping rain, we still had a pretty successful day. We were able to contact a few of the Hermana's old investigators, and find a couple new ones. We also contacted a referral from the Tompkinsville English Elders. We talked to this teenager, L. He invited us in and we had a bomb restoration lesson with him, the spirit was super strong. It was sweet. On the way back, we decided to go to a town called Flippin. Yeah, I saw it on the map and I couldn't resist. So we drove out to Flippin, KY, kind of got lost on the way, but we got pics with the sign for the Flippin Church of Christ haha. On the way back from Flippin, we kind of got lost again, so we ended up going in a giant loop back to Tompkinsville haha. But, eventually we made it back to Cookeville after a long day.
On Saturday, we went on a legit split! Bro T and Bishop H both wanted to come with us, so I spent the afternoon with Bro. T and Elder C went with Bishop. We went a saw a bunch of less actives out in Gainesboro and Baxter, and two of them actually came to church the next day! These people live out in the sticks in the middle of nowhere. It was pretty good though. Then on Easter Sunday we got to have church for 8 hours then we had dinner with a member. Then we went tracting to go share the Easter video one more time, and we actually had quite a bit of success.
My post-Easter Ponderizer is Mark 16:2-4, "And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great." During one of the Sacrament meetings yesterday, a Brother talked about how Mary and the other women went to embalm Christ, and that when they left, they didn't even think about the giant stone in their way. But when they realized that the stone was there and that they wouldn't be able to move it, they didn't stop and turn around and go back, they pressed forward. This is like our challenges in life. If we press forward and act in faith, the Lord will provide a way for us to overcome the boulders in our way. Hope y’all have a great week!
Love,
Elder Mitchell
He found this funny sign in Jamestown
Jamestown
Another sign in Flippin
They also found a place called Nameless :)
Another sleeping pic
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