QUESTIONS:
What did your ward give/do for the mothers for mother’s day?
the youth gave chocolate candies to all the women-folk. One of the YM also gave me one; I was happy to take it.
Have you cleaned up your apartment yet?
yes. It is much neater and tidier
Will you have time for some sports?
umm maybe a bit. With the drive, it's a bit harder, also I don't think there is a group already congregated for sports so it probably won't happen
What is the date of your upcoming baptism?
May 31st (for Linda, we're teaching her again tonight), the other one is scheduled for June 21st
Did you tell elder tait that me missed the chance to meet your family??
haha yes.
Did you get home in time…9:30?
actually no. We had to drive to the church first to pick up the food Sister Cameron made for us, so we did not. whoops!
Are you wearing short sleeves today?
good question. to start the day we put our missionary clothes on for shopping etc and the cashier at Market Basket totally rebuked me for wearing long sleeves. Elder Tait had short sleeves and she said he made the much wiser decision. Anyway it was a funny conversation and we gave her a pass along card with our number (good advice mom!)
Did elder tait make you breakfast this morning?
not this morning.
Did you and elder tait trade stories about your family chats?
yea, we've been talking about it. His family is doing good. He also did Google hangout.
Not a ton to report right now! good job being able to send the email, and it had a good report too.
Even though you have said Jayna is a talker it was surprising and fun to hear her! she is very friendly.
Today at the store we bought: 2 gallons a milk, bagels, turkey and roast Beast for sammiches, bananas, and tissues. that is it.
I remember one time we were at Hawaii when there was a fancy dinner night (or something) there was a little raffle thing and griffin got to pull the name out and he pulled out Dad! he won a few golf balls.
Today I studied part of PMG chp 8 "Using Time Wisely" a lot about goals and priorities and accountability and being organized and things. pretty good stuff. Here, President has big focus on our monthly goals. We select out monthly goals at the beginning of each month, we prayerfully decide the people we think could be baptized in that month, get a baptismal date, or become a new investigator. Those are the people you especially focus on in your weekly plannings as well. At our weekly district meetings you report on what your plans are for that person to do in that week (what you will do to have great lessons, to help them have great personal worship like scriptures and prayers, and have a great church and etc) and you you report on whether you actually did the things that you said you would last week. It is a good system. It's all people based and not about numbers. Also when we are planning for people you try to think about 1. who they are 2. what they need and then 3. what you will do, which is a good life lesson as well.
President sent us an interesting email this week. It's just full of scripture references he wants us to look up (all about following the spirit). I'll copy/paste it at the bottom now.
that's all for now!
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