Hey Yall!
Boy has this been a week. Ill tell ya what, life has been so busy and its great! If you want to have fun, feel accomplished, be completely exhausted, happy, and love life then stay busy! Haha Ill just jump strait into the action and hopefully yall can hear about the funny, spiritual and crazy times Ive had this week.
It all started Monday night, we had just gotten done playing basketball at the stake center, we rushed home and changed then went to a members for a dinner apt. The lived at the end of the road. So my comp decided to park on the street outside their house. It was right by 3 stop signs and inside my head I was thinking that this wasnt the best place to park but I never said anything, my comp thinks he is the best driver ever, and no doubt he is good so I just let him do his thing. Well as we go in and sit down we start eating and we hear a knock on the door. It was the neighbor and come to find out we had parked right behind his driveway. Well he was backing up his truck and ignored the sensors beeping at him saying, "O its just the curb." And backed into our car..... Haha so this week we have been trying to take care of that. It does nothing to us and our drivers side doors are bent in, but we just need to get it taken care of haha.
On Tuesday we did a lot of service. Then Wednesday came around. We went to district meeting in Cullman and that was good as usual. Then right after we went over with the Cullman elders to their home. I wish I wouldve been smart enough to take before and after pictures because this place was one of, if not the worst apt ive seen in the mission. The lawn was pretty much a forest over grown. The inside had rat poop all over the place and trash everywhere! So Elder Johnson, my comp, took Elder Arrington outside and they mowed down the safari, while Elder Riding and I were inside and de junked the entire house, every nook and cranny! It took about 4 hours to finish it all but afterwards it looked fantastic. Then we told them, "Now you better keep it up, and now yall know how to do it so you dont have any excuses!" It felt good to get that done. We blitzed their area which means we both stay but go on exchanged and all 4 work in their area. Elder Arrington and I went to a coordination meeting and taught a spanish recent convert about the bible. It was fun as neither me or him or the sisters knew spanish! haha. This is all the trash we cleaned out from the house. And Elder Arrington:)
Thursday we went to Mission Leadership Council. That is an 8-9 hour meeting. But its always so good! We talked about preparing for baptisms and making sure they go through, but proably the highlight of it was about prayer. Elder Johnson and I are giving a training in Zone Conference this week about the prayer section so next week I will write about it all:) Then on Friday we had another district meeting in Athens. We stayed their after the meeting and Blitzed the area with them. Elder Hixon and I tracted and store contacted the entire day which was great! Then Saturday we were able to work in our area. We tried to go see Adrian, and investigator, at his home. We had never been there. Well we knocked and his parents answered, they said he wasnt home. So we asked if we could teach them about Christ church being restored on the earth. They said yes so we taught them the restoration. We are going back to teach them again this week. I know that even if we have a feeling to go somewhere and what we think is going to happen doesnt, God has something else in mind, we just need to continue to act and figure out what that is.
My last thought I want to share. As Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders we wanted to get our zone to focus on specifically Finding. I had the idea of making a new key indicator so that the missionaries would report that to us. Sister Millard taught us about TOAST. Thrive On Awkward Situations. You may ask what about the last T, what does that stand for... Well i dont know its just Awkward. So we decided to make a TOAST key indicator. We all know that going up to random people and asking if we can teach them about Jesus, is awkward. So we need to Eat the Toast, and go for it! I have loved focusing on this. Our mission president heard about it and its now spreading throughout the mission. So the one TOAST experience I have for this week is this. Elder Johnson and I went to Lowes to find and contact. Well I needed to go to the bathroom. So we ended up going to the back of the store. There was a young couple and the mother took her older boy into the womens bathroom and the father took the baby into the mens bathroom. Well i walked in behind him and what do ya know its just me and him in there. So as I was peeing all I could think about was wow, this is a perfect awkward situation for TOAST. So i got done and as I washed my hands I said, "Well its never fun to change stinky diapers!" haha he was kinda thrown off that anyone would talk to him in the bathroom. But we talked about how parenting is hard but worth it and we talked about eternal families! I invited him to have us come over and teach him about it but he said no. I thought it was still great and fun and I fulfilled my purpose by opening my mouth. So i invite yall this week to eat the TOAST and have an awkward moment:)
I love yall so much and hope you have a great week! Remember to be happy and laugh!!
Love Elder Hall
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