Oakwood Week... I don't even remember

> This week was kinda boring but exciting at the same time. Well I finally got a bike so thanks to my parents! Love you guys! It rides really smooth but it did take a little adjustment but that's normal. We finally got in 2 new member lesson with Dyutoe so he's just that much closer to being done. We invited him to our dinner with the Bishop and met with him on Sunday at the Miles house then had lunch afterwards. This guys testimony is so strong in the gospel he almost makes me look like the recent convert! He's awesome.
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> Last week was transfers and we got like a whole new district! Elder Butterfield and I were the only companionship that stayed together. We got a new sister and 2 new Zone Leaders, and a new district leader. A lot of change, but I've served around the new Zone Leaders when they weren't ZLs and they're both super dope!
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> Easter was super good! We had 2 dinners(in true missionary fashion)! We probably could've had one but we told one dinner that we had an "appointment" about 2 hours later, we just didn't tell them what kind of appointment. LOL whoops ;) We had so much food and so much leftovers. It's super nice. we're set for like the rest of the week!
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> Well that's really all I got! i hope y'all have a fantastic week and continue to grow in your faith of our Lord and Savior!
> Elder Grandon

This Week in Oakwood

> This week we were hecka busy. We finished going through the whole area and visited all the less actives. A lot weren't home but a lot of them were home! We talked to a couple families about General Conference(which defiantly feels like it was yesterday and not a week ago) and ended up talking to 3 or 4 families for the whole day. It was pretty awesome!
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> Yesterday we had an "open" sacrament meeting. It was kinda like Fast and Testimony meeting but we were instructed to give our feelings about Conference. Kinda near the end our recently baptized convert, Uydoe(you-dough) got up and bore a super strong testimony about how General Conference was one of his converting tools, and how he had already defended this church to his Uncle and Aunt. It was very powerful and spiritual!
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> That's really it for this week! I hope you all have a fantastic week and continue to grow in your faith of our savior!
> Elder Grandon

Conference

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> This week went by super fast. We stopped by all the less active in our area and reminded them to watch General Conference. We got Francis to watch it but we didn't watch it with her. She said she enjoyed it so hopefully we can start to teach her.
> That's really all for this week. Have a fantastic week and continue to grow in your faith of Jesus Christ
> Elder Grandon

Oakwood Week 7

> This week was full of stop bys and basketball games! All this week we stopped by some of the previous investigators the sisters found. Almost none of them answered or weren't home. We tried those same 12 or 13 houses all week! The only one that answered was this single mother named Shareea. She is super strong in her desire to know more about the gospel. The only problem we have is that she works all the time and is exhausted by the end of the day. Along with that she has to come home and take care of 2 firecrackers. Two twin boys that are 4 years old. They're super fun to be around and they're hilarious! So hopefully we can find a time that works for her.
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> On Tuesday we had Zone Conference. It was super spiritual and very rewarding. We talked about how to get more people to church, then we split into districts and role played that. We of course had different scenarios and we were told not to tell them why we wouldn't come to church. It was really fun to try to decipher why they wouldn't come. It's really humbling to go through these Zone Conferences because even if you feel really good at your "missionary craft" these type of role plays expose what you can work on. Really beneficial! 10/10 would recommend!
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> That's really all I have from this past week. I hope y'all have a fantastic week and continue to grow in you faith of the SAVIOR!
> Elder Grandon

Oakwood Week 7

> This week was awesome! Firstly, we had transfers on Tuesday. Elder Butterfield is amazing. He has such a caring heart and already loves this area.
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> Literally the day after transfers our Zone Leaders called and asked if we could help them at their service. We of course said "YES!", they came to pick us up and a super bad blizzard started. They stayed with us for a day and a half. About halfway through the day Elder Ofa(one of our ZLs) got super bored. Monopoly is only fun for so long ya know. He got restless and wanted to go out in the blizzard. I was down so we went on an adventure. Just so y'all know we legit couldn't see 5 feet in front of us. I didn't have a mask or anything like that so I took a shirt that you could see through and wrapped it around my face to keep it warm and to be able to see. It was super fun! In our complex some of the snow drifts were over 10 feet tall! It was so Ridiculous! Everything, including the freeway, was closed. People were getting stuck so easily they shut like the whole city down! Once in a life time experience(I hope HA HA HA).
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> After the blizzard finally stopped we went and visited some less active members in our apartment complex. They were all in apartment 302 in different building of course. So that's now a joke in our companionship. Yeahhhhh missionaries are funny!
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> On Saturday we(and about every companionship) got to go to The Lamb of God. It was way better than I expected. It was packed to the rafters with LDS members. I was sitting in the audience and all of the sudden a girl started to sing her solo and it reminded me of my little sister, Hannah, sooooooooo much. Her tone was actually a little bit worse than Hannah's! I was instantly filled with pride. Don't get me wrong, she did amazing, but the whole time she sang all I could think in my head was "My sister would rock this part soooooo hard!" *INSTANTLY FILLED WITH PRIDE* She was tasked to play the part of Mary, Jesus mother. The play was really good! 10/10 would recommend to a friend!
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> That's really all I have this week! Hope y'all have a FANTASTIC week and continue to grow in your faith of our savior!
> Elder Grandon

Transfer Week

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> Well this week is transfer week. We are saying goodbye to Elder Modesto and welcoming Elder Butterfield! I've served around him and been on exchanges with him so this should be a super fun transfer!
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> This week we ruined our SIM card. So long story short, I was doing the dishes and checked my phone cause we had a dinner about to come. In doing that I dropped my phone in the sink. I shoved my hand in there and started to dry off my phone. I put it in rice. I took everything out of the phone(my SD card and the SIM card) and placed them on a towel. Unaware of the whole situation Elder Modesto picked up the towel that had everything in it and started drying of the dishes. I turned around just in time to see the SIM card fall into the sink and down the drain. My SD card fell on the floor instead of the sink so I guess this story isn't that bad. HA HA HA! He felt so bad once I told him what had just happened. It was alright though, the office got us one the next day so not all is lost in the end!
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> Besides that nothing really exciting happened this week. All of our 3 return appointments cancelled on us but said to try again next week. So Elder Butterfield and I will have to try again next week.
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> Other than that I really have nothing else to say. Have a great day and a fantastic week! Continue in your faith and keep on keeping on. Nothing but love for each of you!
> Elder Grandon

Oct 2018 Zone Meeting