MONDAY:
We had our P-day at the huge house
again. This time I played basketball and Ultimate Frisbee. I jammed my finger
pretty bad and it got really swollen so they had to cut it off. Other than that
it was a really good P-Day. Or i just jammed it and now I'm totally fine and
not in harm’s way. The Spirit of the Lord is with me every day and I feel so
spiritually filled. And I have all my appendages….hahahahahah…I'm
a terrible child. We also went to a bamboo forest behind the house and it was
so pretty and calm! Until Elder Jex got
there, then it just got wild. He started climbing up the bamboo shoots and made
it like 20 feet up and then he fell. He's
fine.
TUESDAY:
We've started doing all Spanish days
every other day and we started on Tuesday. It was pretty difficult since it was
district meeting and I couldn't really talk to anyone and joke around, but it
was a good day of realizing how much I need to learn. It really made me realize
how much more I could be doing to learn the language.
Elder Hansen, from the other
companionship in the ward left on Tuesday as well. He was a super funny guy that is from Salt Lake
as well. He is 20 and was a ski bum for
two years, but then decided to serve a mission and start doing something with
his life. He was assigned to speak English,
but when he got here he was switched to Spanish, without any Spanish training. It was a hard 12 weeks for him to say the
least. After Tuesday he was switched back to English speaking. He wasn't too
happy since he was making really good progress in Spanish and now he's not even
speaking it.
We also had a lesson with S
again. We taught her about the commandments and she committed to stop drinking
coffee and to live all the other laws. She doesn’t really have a problem with
any of the other laws but we'll see.... I don't doubt she does. She's so Christ-like
and loves the gospel as she's been learning it.
WEDNESDAY:
We taught BP again and
he's really making a huge progress in the gospel. We taught him about the Restoration
and he really seemed receptive to it. He's
also just a really funny guy.
THRUSDAY:
Well, it pretty much rained all day so
I'm again so thankful you sent me the rain jacket ma! We then had a lesson in
the night with Familia M. We've been a little concerned about them since
they've been having trouble with consistently reading. I love that family so much and they're so
nice. I just want them to progress in
the gospel and to find happiness through baptism. They're so close. They just need to exercise faith to receive
an answer and then to have real intent to act upon the answer they receive. We
brought Familia S with us and they bore strong testimonies about seminary
and the Book of Mormon. Then Elder Galvez asked me to teach about the Book of Mormon
and prayer in the conversion process. I didn't know what to say, but for some
reason i just didn't even think about it and I just started talking in Spanish.
I was able to teach, ask questions, understand questions, and bear testimony to
Familia M about the Book of Mormon and the power it has to change our lives.
I felt blessed by the Lord to be able to open my mouth and try to help them
come closer to Christ.
FRIDAY:
Since Elder Galvez is the new
district leader now, he has to do exchanges with all the missionaries in the
district. So he started with Elder Vance and Elder Chilcote. Elder Galvez went
up to inner Cumorah, and Elder Chilcote came with me. Once again, the two missionaries
with the least experience, together, managing an area. Let's just say it was a
hard day. We were driving back when we realized we didn't have the cell phone
so we had to go back to Cumorah. Then we had to look through Cumorah for Elder
Galvez and Elder Vance. We eventually found them and then we drove back and got
stuck in traffic. Then our dinner appointment called and told us that the only
time they had to get us food was right then. So we had to go to Subway and get
lost along the way. We had an appointment with a team-up waiting for us
the whole time and then the appointment with the team-up didn't even work. Then
things started getting better. We taught two lessons that went decently well
and then went back to the apartment.
SATURDAY:
It was Stake Conference which was
hilarious. We had Elder Aidukaitis of the First Quorum of the Seventies come and
he is just hilarious. At the adult
session of conference on Saturday he asked "Is anyone here investigating
the church?" to which three people on the front row stood up. Elder
Aidukaitis then said, "You know, this meeting is for members only, so after
the meeting you have two choices. You are either baptized and join the church
(long pause) or we have to kill you!" Then he laughed so hard he shorted
out the microphone for a second. Man he
was so cool! He talked about missionary work and how members need to do their
part. My favorite part was when he talked to missionaries and said that if the
members don't do their part that's no excuse not to work at all. We still need to be doing the same things and
working our hardest.
SUNDAY:
Saturday night we also talked to
BP and Familia D about attending Stake Conference at the Technical College
which was like 30 miles away. They didn't have a ride, but we told them we
would try to find them one. We finally got them a ride an hour before church
and they wouldn't answer their phone. So
we just went over and woke them all up and told them to get ready since their
ride was coming to pick them up. We sat and waited until Hermano Lopez came to
get them and then we left. They showed up and BP listened to the whole thing.
He's committed to be baptized this Saturday!
We also had a huge party/dinner to
attend at Famila S de Mexico and their extended family. She wanted to have
a Family Home Evening. Elder Galvez and Elder Amaro, the two native speakers,
taught a lesson on The Plan of Salvation. After we had 4 more appointments and passed
out 3 Books of Mormon. IT was really cool to see.
We also taught S about the
commandments again and invited her to be baptized this Saturday as well. She
was a little hesitant and said she needed "more faith", but our
team-up, Hermana S said, "The thing about faith, is that it requires us
to act." and then she told about how faith is about action. She basically taught the first three parts of
The Gospel to S again. S has
agreed to be baptized the 26 of this month.
I got your packages and I'm so happy
to have a camera! Thank you for sending me my jacket as well. I just bought a
winter coat and a little jacket at Marshalls so when it gets cold like it is
more and more each day. I can keep warm. Holy crud! I totally underestimated
the cold. It's just so flippin’ wet down here and a little cold makes it feel
like you're swimming in a frozen lake, but with these coats now I'll be fine. I
actually kind of like it.
I'm so glad to have the
opportunity to serve the lord. Sunday I was feeling pretty inadequate and like
this is more Elder Galvez's missionary work. But then he was talking to me and
he said, "This is hard. This is the hardest thing you are ever going
to do, but Elder Rodabough it is worth it. Every day it is worth it." Ii
really want to make every day meaningful as though it is the last in my mission
and that I can serve as hard as I can.
Oh yeah something
else?!?!?! ELDER OAKS IS COMING THIS SATURDAY!!!! Yeah he's coming to speak to the Atlanta
Georgia North Mission and the Atlanta Mission. We're all super excited and we
know that it's going to be awesome. President Wolfert left the whole mission a
voicemail and said that Elder Oaks is just going to come and speak on whatever
the Spirit prompts him to speak on. FOR TWO HOURS!! Man, I hope that one day I can do that for 10
minutes let alone two hours. We're super excited!!!
Love,
Elder Rodabough the second--Your
favorite son
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