Hey all, how's it going?!
It's been another week of ups and downs, with lots more snow that keeps coming and melting again!
It full swing Holiday season here in Ohio, and there are a lot of people here that go crazy with their Christmas lights! The only thing I haven't seen yet is the lights in tune with music! I forgot to take a picture, but Elder Jardine and I decided it'd be worth it to get a small Christmas tree, to help get the Christmas spirit more in our apartment! It worked! Elder Jardine Also bought the Piano Guys Christmas Album at walmart, so that bring us to a total of 3 Christmas cds! haha. Some members also donated to us some strands of lights early this week, so that was awesome. I love Christmas! Though it's both good and not so good for the work. People are thinking more about Jesus Christ, but they're also super busy.
Last Tuesday we finally got the brakes on our car replaced, so that was a huge relief. I was nearly constantly praying for them not to give out while we were driving! Apparently there was nothing left! That's a miracle right there!
Wednesday was District meeting, and then after hours of trying to find we went to the church to help set up for the ward Christmas party. Unfortunately, they weren't ready, so we ended up kinda wasting our time there. We then went our to Pataskala (a large population center a distance away from our apartment) to visit a part member family, who ended up being in San Diego.
Thursday was spent trying to find new investigators, since we're doing something in the zone called Zone Olympics! Each week there's a different focus, and whichever district gets the most for that goal, wins the medal for that week. This week it was New Investigators. By the end of Thursday, we had still found none.
Thursday afternoon, we went back to the church to help set up for the Ward Christmas Party for reals. We were there for about an hour and a half, and the relief society was super appreciative of our help. On of the committee members, Sister Fromm, was in charge of decorating, and afterwards she took us out to dinner at Bob Evans. After that, we met up with Bro. George and went over to the Richardsons to teach about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. She committed to be baptized....."when she's ready." But it's a step, and thank you all for your prayers! :)
Friday was weekly planing, and we drive out to another edge of our area in a town called Buckeye Lake. We had received a referral from the area south of us for a family in that town, so we tried to contact them, but to no avail. We tried to contact and 225 (knock the 2 houses to each side and the 5 across the street) some less actives in the area, but nobody was home. We took a quick detour to the actual lake, and walked a little ways out on the ice. I'll never get over that!! haha
Friday evening was the Ward Christmas Party, where we ave over 20 non-members! It was awesome! Special thanks to our Ward Mission Leader, Bro. Styer, who brought his folk band to play, and are all non-members other than he and his wife! At the party, they made the Elders Quorum sing silent night, in harmony, so that was pretty hilarious. ;). The guy in charge of the singing, Camden, thanked me afterward for being solid enough for others to sing off me. I knew taking choir would be good for something eventually! haha
They also had a "snowman" game, where they had us 4 elders come up to the front and separated the members into 4 teams. They then proceeded to cover us in toilet paper and turn us into "snowmen." haha! I'll try to get pictures.
Saturday was a miserable day. It had snowed about 4 inches the night before, and the whole was it was 33 degree rain. We did get to contact that referral, which is a part-member family who wants to come back to church, and got o talk with a couple less actives as well! Also, I got caught up with the 10 pages a day of the Book of Mormon that the mission has been doing. I was 120 pages behind! haha.
Sunday come around, we made crepes for Sister Richardson who came to church! But we had still found no new investigators! And even worse, our district was losing!! We had diner with a part-member family, who brought a friend who had already read the book of mormon twice! Afterwards, we hit it hard and got in with 2 more part member families that we've been trying to get in with forever! One of them We've been trying to visit for the past months!! So, we had a simple, but awesome miracle happen, as all the other areas in our district had awesome experiences as well, and we found 8 new investigators in the one night, and won! We're super excited too, since we have solid return appointments with all of them! One of them is a 9 ear old girls who straight up told her Dad "I really want to get baptized!" :D
I love this gospel, and I love our Savior Jesus Christ! The scripture of the week is 1 Nephi 3:7! I know that Heavenly Father wants us to obey, he wants us to do his work, and he will and does help us, as we exercise the faith to "Go and Do!" Everyone be safe out there! Love and Miss you!
Elder Aaron Toombs
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