Week 66: Just a Quicken 11/11/2019

Hey everyone!! What's up? Well, I'm gonna keep this one quick! Not too much new happening, sorry I wish there was more that happened. I also just barely jammed my finger sooooo hard playing basketball and it really hurts to type, still very injury prone, nothing new to that. I'm doing soooo good tho! The work has been hard here as of late, but I have felt a lot of love from Heavenly Father and I know he is helping me along and has good plans for this area. We just can't ever get discouraged because if you do, that's when the lack of effort comes in. I'm so grateful to be a missionary and the stuff that I have learned this far! I will never, in my life, forget the moments that I have had out here and am super grateful to God for giving me this opportunity. 

I guess the highlight of this week was yesterday. Sunday's are always the best in missionary work, but after Sacrament we had this one girl named Grace who is 9 come up to us and said that she wanted to be baptized. So we have a new 9 year old to teach now and we are very excited about that. Training has been good, it feels like Elder Williams is a pro already and I'm just a normal companion. It's crazy to think that this transfer will come to an end this week. I wonder what's going to happen, but I'm confident I'll stay, I just got here. I will let you know what happens though! 

Well, I'm excited to get another week going!! Hopefully next week I won't have a jammed and that I can give you more detail!! Love you all! Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Weese

1) Spread Love

2,3) The district!

Week 65: Seems like the OK skipped fall!! 11/4/2019

Hello everyone!!! What's going on? This week went by super fast, I don't think I have too much to say about this week. We have been putting in some good work and trying to find people that we can teach here in this area. I guess something new, we are working with a part member family. George Herning is the non member and his wife Jessica is a member and we visited them. Apparently his last experiences he has had with missionaries weren't super positive because they were being way to pushy and he said he really didn't learn a whole lot from them, they were just always asking him to pray, and then constantly asking if he has received answers, and that was pretty much it. He just wants the information right now and then he is going to see where he truly stands with it. He's very cool, and has some good potential, he hasn't been married to his wife for very long so this church is still new to him, but he comes almost every week with her.

It was another pretty cold week!! I'm glad I didn't go trick or treating this year because man... It was so rainy and wet and freezing!! We had a lot more appointments fall through sadly, but we have just been separating the cream from the corn. We have a lot set up this week in the coming days so I'm hoping that will be good. There was this one girl named Dionna who we gave a book of Mormon to 2 weeks ago. She said she loved to read so we said we will come back in a week to talk to her, well we did, and she was like- "so I read your book and, I did not like it! It goes against my beliefs and I did some RESEARCH and didn't have the best experience with it. The key word in that sentence was research!! Ughh, I bet all missionaries have problems with this junk. Oh well, what can you do. You can't force it upon someone, you just have to poke holes and try to plant the seed. We had another experience where Elder Williams met this lady on exchanges and she said come back, sounded super promising! Well we tried... then tried... then tried until we got caught by here husband who looked a lot like Chevy Chase. He was like, "look, you guys have to move on! Quit coming over here!" We were like "wait, your wife told us we could come back." he said, "There is no way she would have ever said that" Well... she did!! Haha! Had to move on from that one as well.

Well, I hope and pray that we can get this appointments to actually pan out! It has been a struggle having to constantly cancel and come up with other things to do. We just need to be like, look! If you aren't really interested, JUST SAY NO!!! It's a lot better for us to move on and find other people rather than wasting our time coming back over and over because you didn't want to feel bad for saying no. Well, there's my rant for the day!! It's all part of the mission experience. I'm grateful for the hard times! Life is fun! Elder Williams is great, and the Lord is aware of us! I know he has something big in store here, we just have to keep working and rely on him constantly. I hope you all have a great week! Love you all!

Love,

Elder Weese

1) Missionaries= dog's best friends!!

2) Day's worth of biking!!