Alright it's been a pretty awesome week!! Sort of. haha we've had a lot
of fun... And we've taught some great lessons!! But we've had a lot of
lessons fall through. We had 5 lessons scheduled on Tuesday, all
confirmed the night before. And every single one of them fell through.
It was pretty crazy. once the 4th one fell through, we actually just
thought it was funny. Kind of a big joke. But it all worked out :) We
hit the Standards of Excellence, so that's pretty neat. The standards of
excellence are statistics that we as missionaries should be striving
for our areas. Each standard of excellence is set by the Mission
President for each individual mission. Our standards for excellence are 1
baptism for every companionship every month. 3 investigators with a
baptismal date per week. 3 investigators at sacrament meeting every
week. 5 lessons with a member present every week. 3 new investigators
found every week. and 3 lessons taught to recent converts or less
actives every week. The only standard that we didn't hit this week was
New Investigators. We haven't found any new investigators lately because
we've been stinking busy!! We have lessons scheduled constantly, and
when we aren't doing lessons we're doing service or something else like
that. Our days are PACKED!! But after the baptisms we have this week,
we'll have much more time to go find people :)
Ok,
so... As missionaries we can still have fun. So we have fun while we
serve :) There's this lady in our ward that has bunch of trees she
didnt' want anymore, along with GIANT bushes of thorns that she wanted
cleared out. Recently I purchased a Gerber Gator Machete, and clearly it
made sense that a machete would be the best tool to clear these out. So
we did :) We spent like 3 hours this week hacking away at vines and
sawing through trees to help her clear up the yard. Basically it's been
pretty awesome to actually have a use for the machete haha
Here's
the next part to the story... We have time from 9:30 til 10:30 to do
what we want. So lately we play fruit ninja with the machete. We'll get a
bag of baby carrots and toss them to each other on the back deck and
slice them in half. It's pretty awesome!! :D Well another thing we found
this week is that hand sanitizer is flamable... So we thought we would
be brilliant and combine the machete awesomeness with the hand sanitizer
to make a flaming sword. Basically, we're freaking awesome. :D hahaha
we took a couple pictures, and showed them to another missionary in the
area. His first response is that what we're doing is in the bible,
"cherubim and the flaming sword." Hence the subject line for this week
:) I have attached a picture to show it to y'all. Yes, you can be
jealous of how much fun we have as missionaries, while still being
obedient :)
So
something else.... We've been having a RIDICULOUS amount of bike
trouble lately. Elder Bentley's bike crankshaft fell off his bike, so
we've been borrowing someone elses. Well he broke that crank shaft too,
so now we're trying to share 3 bikes between 4 elders haha it's
interesting... But I think I've had like 3 flat tires this week. It's
been pretty crazy. It seems like every time we've tried to go out the
door this week, we've found another problem with our bikes. Today was no
exception. We were getting ready to leave to the church to write home,
when once again I found a flat tire. It's crazy!! I'll probably get a
new tube because this one has like 3 patches on it now. No fun, but hey
it happens. We take it with a smile, and that's all you can really do :)
So...
That's the gist of the week I think. Service. Flaming swords. Bike
problems. Teaching appointments. And setting up 2 baptisms in the coming
week. We're pretty excited. Pretty DANG excited. :D
Spiritual
Thought-- okay, here's a chase for everyone!! "Go ye therefore, and
teach" It's a pretty well known scripture, but I really like it!! I
think it's straight forward too, so I don't need to explain too much.
GO, and TEACH. That's the gist. We can all strive to go out and teach
others about our religion. Even those who have access, might just be
waiting for someone to ask if they're interested. So this week take a
look around, and see if there is someone you can Go and Teach about the
gospel. :D
I
hope everyone is having a splendid week and is looking forward to
COnference in two weeks!! I sure am!! :D I love you all!! Keep working
hard!! Stay Strong!! HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!!!
Love, Elder Kameron Kilbourne
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