We've had a fun week. We got to play a little football or as you would call it, soccer and we helped to put some new cement in a house as some service.
That is so cool that Chandler is back from his mission and that he came to see you. Tell him hi for me.
We are settled in to our apartment and our new area. I've really had to concentrate on where I'm going because I've never opened a new territory before. I couldn't just go to our apartment and I couldn't just go to church, or catch a bus because I didn't even know where anything was! But I'm slowly learning and so it is all good.
So the other day we passed a kid on the street who was about 16 years of age and I had the impression that we should talk to him. So we asked him if we could give him a message or meet him at this home and he said yes, to come to his home! So we followed him and gave him the message and he was really interested and wanted to come to church the following Sunday.
So when Sunday came, we went to his house to pick him up and when we knocked on the door, his mom answered and said I'll go get him. Well she took so long, we just knew he was in bed asleep and sure enough, when he came to the door, he was shirtless and looked like he had just got out of bed. We told him we would wait for him to get ready for church but he said he didn't think he could go, but we were really persistent and so finally he said he would go.
As we walked into the church, someone greeted him by name (his cousin) and then someone else greeted him by name (his neighbor) so we thought, GREAT! This guy already knows people at church!
So after sacrament, we took him to his Sunday School class and after it was finished we went to pick him up and some member was trying to sign this kid up for EFY that started the very next day. He was talking about the list that this kid would need, shoes, dress clothes, bus ticket, scriptures, etc. I thought, oh boy, now that is going to overwhelm this kid. EFY is overwhelming for us members, haha.
Anyway, the kid couldn't go which is probably good because I think it was too much too soon, but hey, good job to the member who was trying to include this kid in everything!!
The pictures below are of our soccer team and of us putting cement in a house. I have a funny look in the picture, but it really was a cool service project and we had a lot of fun helping out.
Have a great week!
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