MTEs

This week we had a couple of exchanges and we did a lot of service again. The ward when I got here wasn't really active in wanting to do missionary work and some of the missionaries that have recently served here haven't been the most obedient and so the ward hasn't really noticed the missionaries. But on Sunday everyone was coming up to us and letting us know that they appreciate the hard work we are doing which made my day :).

On Wednesday we had MTE's which is when 3 zones or so get together and President Schmitt gives us some training. And then we do a big exchange between the 3 zones. My first MTE President Schmitt came outwith me and my trainer and I was only like 2 weeks out haha. This MTE President Schmitt went out with Elder Callahan and another missionary in his area. I had Elder Corum come with me to my area. Elder Corum has been out for 20 months and is a really good missionary. He is super funny and he looks a lot like Elder Wendel haha.

Elder Corum and I had a pretty good day though. We saw Nhulong (Brother Stewart told me it was Nhullng but we asked him and he said its Nhulong haha) Nhulong is doing great though! He is so stoked to get baptized! He has a date for August 29!

We also saw Don Beitler and he is doing great! His wife is a returning less active and she has been having some questions lately. On Sunday they actually talked about it in priesthood and relief society and it answered her questions and she is doing great now! :) It's so crazy how that happens. It seems like every time the Beitlers have a question they talk about it at church! :) God has a plan for them and this is the path that they need to be on! The stake is really excited for his baptism! This Friday the stake president is coming to our lesson with them and next week the elders quorum president wants to come to a lesson. He has already been in a lesson with a counselor in the mission presidency and he has already met our mission president. It's pretty crazy how prepared he is.

Thursday we exchanged back and had a testimony meeting with the other zones that were part of the MTE. After that it was pretty normal we had splits and went and saw Stephanie and we were going over to teach her and we show up and they are getting ready for a birthday party so we helped them instead and then taught a real quick lesson on the importance of service and why we do it.

Friday we had Zone Meeting and the stake president came and talked to us. The stake president in the Santee stake is awesome! He recently got in a surfing accident and injured his back and he told us the story of what happened in his accident and how he saw miracles in life at that moment and it was a pretty amazing story. After zone meeting we had exchanges with Lakeside elders and I was with Elder Felix for the day in his area.

Elder Felix is from PA and we had a pretty good time together. We did some service for someone they are teaching then we saw some of their investigators and other people we were teaching. We had dinner with the stake relief society president and had a good time getting to know them.

Saturday morning we helped one of our investigators move which kinda sucked but it's alright. Their daughter was there and she is less active and she seemed to really reach out to us and appreciated us helping and stuff so that was cool. She told us that we could stop by if we were ever in the area. The rest of the week was pretty normal though.

I think that's it for this week. Elder Callahan and I are doing great and seeing a lot of miracles in the Bostonia area :). Hope all is going well!

Love you and the Church is true
-Elder LaRochelle