Week 58

 

My fellow Americans, 

Last Monday was sweet, we had a zone activity at a members home. They had a big property with a small pond and a ping pong table and can jam and a sand volleyball pit, so we did a lot of fun games and they made us a bunch of spaghetti and smores around a campfire. It was a good time, pics down below. Elder Shuldberg and I have been working on a self-reliance video, we hope to have it posted this week, we recorded some shots at our local Walmart and in our apartment kitchen, it was a lot of fun. We drove to Ceres again a couple times this week with the zone leaders, once for a service project, it was cool to see some friends and familiar faces once again. One night this week we went out to ice cream with a friend from Modesto, who I reached out to when I got back to the north end of the valley. It was cool to talk again and catch up. Thursday evening, a member invited us to mow his recovering neighbor's lawn, and it was fun! Good to get in the grass again. We talked to the neighbor and he said he wanted to meet with us again to learn more about what we believe. Cool! We met a new friend at a park and taught her two teenage sons, we hope to start teaching them regularly, so it'll be great to have a new regular. Saturday was a technology training, sisters from Fresno came up and the zone met together again, we discussed goals and practiced our online communication, it was fun to meet together in person again. That night members had us over for hotdogs and smores again, a treat I didn't mind having twice this week, haha. My old companion from my Modesto days sent me a text with a screenshot of a conversation he had a with a friend that totally ghosted us. Neither of us had heard from this guy in months, but apparently he was hospitalized for ever but he's out now and wants to meet missionaries again. Nice! A couple wards in our stake had church on Sunday, which means our ward will attend next week! I can't wait to meet the members! And to break bread in the company of fellow saints again! We talked to the youth in a BYC this morning and helped them set goals to invite friends to youth nights and family home evenings with the missionaries, they were awesome! We'll be seeing some of those goals met this week. We hope to meet more people in this community. Life is good, transfer gonna end next week, wonder how that'll go.  

Love, 

Elder Gneiting