Week 32

Yeet?  Yeet.

Man, this transfer has totally flown by, I'm really hoping it doesn't go too quick, because it's been so fun.  Elder Greene is hilarious, and he knows what he's doing, and the weather is getting better.  It's just a great time out here in Modesto.  Monday night last week we started back to back exchanges with our district leader and his companion, I spent the day in their Spanish area with Elder Houston, a stud who's going home the same time as me.  We taught Spanish lessons (it's still coming along alright), ate at a 5 star burger joint (according to Google), and rekaxed to the sound of passing trains.  It was a good day, the next morning we went out before district council, spoke more Spanish, and then biked to our stake center.  We talked about goal setting, helping our friends keep commitments, overcoming casualness in the work, and developing better invitational habits.  Afterwards, I went back into my area with Elder Anderson to finish the exchange, we taught a number of lessons, knocked some doors, and at a members home that night we talked about golf, our member said he would take us golfing some Monday if we give him notice.  Maybe I'll try it!  Wednesday morning we studied and went to our local family history center where we met a friend from the previous week.  We helped him research and find names of his ancestors, it was cool to help someone learn more about their heritage, whether or not they're a member.  Didn't think I'd have fun doing family history, but having an hour weekly to find names has helped me get better at it.  We taught some more lessons but had some other plans fall through as well.  A usual day.  Thursday was sick, we went to the temple again!  It was so good to go through and feel the spirit and worship.  Sadly, I didn't bring the new family names I had found, but I will next time.  We got home and hit the pavement, knocked doors and tried setting up appointments for next week with some decent success.  Friday had plenty of teaching appointments and opportunities for service, that night we helped our Elders Quorum President set up for a game night the day before, we helped build a nine-square pvc pipe cage thing.  That was cool.  We visited a member who gave us hot dogs and talked about his life.  He's a good guy who's seen a lot, he's Tongan and talked about growing up in that culture and a few years he spent there as a young man, it was a good conversation.  Sunday was good.  We had friends show up, we had one of them meet with our bishop, and that afternoon we made a lot of visits with our ward mission leader.  We saw our friend Alan again, he and his wife fed us biscuits and gravy and eggs for dinner, we worked on our pool game briefly, and went out again to visit and teach more members.  It's just been a good week.  The weather is still in the high 60s so it only goes up from here.

Love you all, I hope life is going well each of you.  Thank you for your prayers, I hope you're all looking forward to this spring as much as I am.  General conference!  200 year first vision anniversary!  Better weather!  Most exciting. 

Elder Gneiting

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