This is in order from worst to best, well kinda
On the day of zone conference or the morning of anyway. I woke up at 12 45 am in like a heat surge, (im not sure how exactly how to descirbe it). It was light a hot flash. Then after throwing all blankets and the floor and waiting five minuets i spent the next 45 minuets of the next hour in the bathroom in and out a few times. after as elder watkins describes our neighbor started honking their horn for five minuets then the nieghbors would wake up and start yelling, then they would leave and come back 10 minuets later, they did it three times. Given all of that i probably got about 5 hours of sleep the day of zone conferemce which is the same day where i had to drive 2 hours there and back to renaldsburge early in the morninf. yet the power of god is amazing. I woke up said heavenly father help me be patient and help me make it through this day please give me the strength to stay alert today. I went throughout that whole day a okay. After about 20 minuets after thhe prayer i felt like i got the full 8 hours. I was just alright like nothing ever happend
Now onto our most progressive investigator , we had a good lesson with her and she was doing really good but just working on word of wisdom. Well latter in the week she calls us and says i am gonna cancel our lesson i am not read to join the church. This was the day of lock down(ill explain lock down latter). I just fell to the floor and we took a deep breath and went on in companion study. After lock down we went out and found four new really solid new investigators for this week. I mean we found stephanie, who we knocked her door and taught about prophets in the restoration and she interupted us and said i cant listen to this, then went on to explain i cant listen to this right now because i want my whole family to learn with me, so we are going back on saterday to teach her her husband, her 3 kids and her daughters fiance. Then there is linda who is a potential me and elder baldwin found the tuesday before. She just got off work and takes care of her two kids two grankids and a foster kid. Shes devorced and says she loves god and is very indepentdent but would love for her family to know god better. Then lindsey, we knocked a formers house named bob, lindsay was his exgirlfiend with three kids, she asked us if we just wanted to talk to him, and we said no thats alright we want to talk to you and her eyes teared up and she invited us in and we taught her the restoration and invited her to church and to movie night.
Lock down....
On monday from when we woke to 1 o clock we had a mission wide lock down. Or at least through out ohio it was all catagory two or three storm emergency on the roads. So we were band from driving. And since were not allowed to knock are appartment complex we were locked inside doing online proselyting... the picture of elder watkins pulling himself under the desk because of boredom. We have another storm comming this weekend.... the storms are no were near as bad as back home. The only difference is what is left behind, back home there was uasally lots of snow. Here there is no snow just ice and slush.
Next on suday night we were out and about after having done 3 hours of finding that day and nothing. We needed one investigstor to hit the standards and be the example area god asked us to be, we knocked three more formers and nothing. Theres one former around the corner not on the plans but we decided to go to it anyway. Then as we walk down the street to the former looking for the house number i said a prayer in my heart please heavenly father let us accomplish what you have asked. We walked a few more steps and i felt need to just stop walking. And we did. One minuet latter amy opens the dont to take out her trash. And she almost screams because two people say hello who she didnt even know we were out their. (Granted we were both in black and almost all black with are coats covering our white shirts. We talk with her and taught her the restoration or at least part of it and she said we she wants us to come teach her whole family the restoration again, her and her three kids.
Lastly. We went on exchanges with the canal elders for a second time this week, i went up to canal with elder winland meanwhile elder wakley went to chillicothe with elder watkins. I was down that day, and me and elder winland had a long conversation in which the focus was why me. I basically was depressed because why does it matter who i am. I mean we go on so many exchanges it doesnt matter who i am anyone could do what i do, expecially since god is not going to let one person loose their salvstion because one wasnt ready. God would lead them or someone else tomthe gospel. We talked and he agreed that i was right but then he testified to me yes it could be anyone, but god chose you. God chose you. That hit me hard. God chose you. My eyes watered, then wandered to elder wakleys desk and i read one if his quotes "if not you then who, if not now then when" yet again the spirit testified again to me.
Lastly. We went on exchanges with the canal elders for a second time this week, i went up to canal with elder winland meanwhile elder wakley went to chillicothe with elder watkins. I was down that day, and me and elder winland had a long conversation in which the focus was why me. I basically was depressed because why does it matter who i am. I mean we go on so many exchanges it doesnt matter who i am anyone could do what i do, expecially since god is not going to let one person loose their salvstion because one wasnt ready. God would lead them or someone else tomthe gospel. We talked and he agreed that i was right but then he testified to me yes it could be anyone, but god chose you. God chose you. That hit me hard. God chose you. My eyes watered, then wandered to elder wakleys desk and i read one if his quotes "if not you then who, if not now then when" yet again the spirit testified again to me.
I am not sure what else to say,
God is good
I love being a missionary and am so happy i get to have this oppertunity
I ahould clarify that though alot of this may look good or at least to me it does i do leave out the people who threaten us. But its more funny then anything else.
Quotes from zone conference
HOW ARE WE SUPOSED TO BE UNIFIED IF WE ARE FIGHTING ONE WITH ANOTHER- president stratford
The study of doctrine will improve your behavior will improve your life faster then, studying your behavior. -boyd k packer in little children, ensign november 1986
NO ONE IS TOO GOOD NO ONE IS ABOVE THE RUELS
LETS NOT LET HIM DOWN.-president stratford
Lastly we are one of few missions who have smartphones now(one per companion ship, the new missionaries coming out will have their own smartphone but not a tablet). I will be honest i hated comming out on a technology mission but now i love it. We are trying to do what they did yesrs ago with drugs.
Fifty years ago smoking and drinking was a common among the church. We now have a drug resistant church. The temptation is still their but we have not just stopped using drugs, but change are nature in that everyone knows they are wrong.
The trial of this age is technology and the pornagraphic material there in. Through missionaries as the for front. We will become immune to this sin as we did the other before. I can see the potential and the power of god.
I testify that god lives and that he loves you
In name of jesus christ amen
Love y'all
-Elder Jarvis
Pic a selfi elder watkins took because we didnt take any pics.... my desk is messy, good thing today is cleaning day
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