Week 89
This week has kind of been crazy with two meetings and everything else! Earlier on in the week I was on Exchanges with Elder Hawkes here in Searcy area, and we ended up seeing a bunch of people which was great. After that exchange we had our zone meeting. The Sister training leaders had it all set up so it was primary themed because, we are going to be reading the New Testament and focus on Christ like attributes for the next couple of months. Everyone in the Zone was seated in the little primary seats, and then for questions and other things we pulled Popsicles sticks out of a jar that the Sisters had made. The zone meeting overall went really well. It was the first Zone Meeting I had instructed at. It's always a great experience instructing, because things will pop into your head that your weren't planning on saying! Instructing with Elder Pearson always goes really well! We presented the March Madness trophy to Elder Ceron y Santiago (my grandson y son) as they beat us in the championship game in the Searcy March madness.
After Zone meeting Elders Geddes and Elder Taleni spent a day with us in Searcy before the leadership meeting. They blitzed the area, and we drove out to Augusta to give a Book of Mormon to a lady. She loved it, but said she felt nervous because she hadn't talked to the Elders before haha! The next morning we all headed to NLR for the leadership training with President Wakolo! It was an awesome meeting, and I got to see a lot of good friends there. The Cahoon's who were an office couple at the beginning of my mission returned back to the office for another mission, so it was great to see them!
We were able to teach a good amount through that week, but all of our lessons that were set up with members all seemed to keep falling through. We were able to see the Lagoms. again after a super long time. They were so happy that we dropped by and said they felt bad, because they have been super busy and kept forgetting to respond. We were able to set up an appointment with the Husband Alex the next day. He is from Uruguay so he speaks Spanish. We taught him a great lesson in English, really getting to know his understanding of religion and the gospel. We helped him understand some questions he had about God, and I showed him a Mormon message at the end in Spanish which he loved. He told us that in that lesson we answered several questions that he had been having recently. That was a cool experience, and I think it is going to help him a lot being able to express himself in Spanish more now that I'll be there to teach him. They are an awesome family, and we are super pumped to keep seeing them, especially because they were a member referral. They also gave us two free boxes of Samoa girls scouts cookies!
We saw Cori and the family several times this week which was awesome. Unfortunately they were not able to make it to church. They are still doing great, and we have an appointment set up with them tonight. We are going to move their baptismal dates so one of her daughters who is an active member in Oklahoma can come and see the baptism!
We had fast Sunday this week, and had a really good fast y testimony meeting. There is a guy named Pedro in our ward who only speaks Spanish and can only stay for sacrament, because he works so much supporting his family in Mexico. But he went up to bare his testimony in Spanish, and one of the bishopric members started to translate for him and he was struggling. People started looking at me, and then I walked up to the stand and was able to translate Pedro's testimony. He gave an awesome testimony, sharing some very cool experiences. The spirit was strong, and it was great being able to have that opportunity, Definitely a highlight for my Sunday! And that'll about do it for the week! Oh also I got my first tick last night, it was pretty crazy pulling it out! And the weirdest part is earlier in the day was the first time someone showed me what a tick looked like.
Con amor,
Elder Geddes
Elder Geddes
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