Don't have the energy to compose something that flows this week, so here's the highlights in my fanciest bulleted list:
- The zone leaders dropped an absolute bombshell at zone training meeting this last week. Mission-wide, we no longer have area boundaries! Mission areas are now defined by ward boundaries and the missionaries assigned to each area can work anywhere within those boundaries rather than sticking to a smaller portion of the ward. Pretty exciting, right? So if we meet someone and have a good connection with them, we don't have to give them up if they end up living outside of our area. (That's happened to us a couple of times here in Fargo, so we've got a couple potential investigators back!) We're kind of trying it out for a little while and we'll see what happens. I think it's either going to be really free up the work or we're going to be like the children of Israel making stuff up at the foot of Mount Sinai and President Hess will have to chuck some stone tablets of guidelines at us to reel us in a little. Interesting either way!
- We're also starting something called Open Your Mouth hour, which is pretty cool. We as a mission will be spending at least 1 our doing personal finding activities like street contacting or tracting from the hours of 4-9 every day. We're trying to get out there and let people see us out working because we spend a lot of time driving around in this mission. So if you have any extra prayers for us to find people, that would be a great time to offer them!
- We did some service for a really sweet lady in the ward at the end of exchanges with the STLs last week. We peeled a ton of apples for her and it was pretty fun! It's getting a little cooler here and the apples were super fresh, so it just smelled like autumn. It was a good time, even though I sliced my thumb open ten seconds in because I was trying to peel with a knife like a pioneer woman. There's a reason I was born at this time.
- A sister in the ward had an open house for a medical spa that she just starting working at and we dropped by to see her. It was like another world in there. We were SO out of place. Everyone there was like a millionaire or at least a fashion magazine reporter and I hadn't even combed my hair since that morning. We couldn't even find the sister we came to see so we just snagged some probably thousand-dollar cheese and bounced because we were so uncomfortable. So now there's a whole crowd to rich socialites that think sister missionaries are gate crashers.
- Had a good time at the ward chili cookoff this past week! There was some good stuff there, so I'm definitely going to have to hit up the ward for some recipes. And someone gave us a whole pot of it, so we'll be eating it for like a month. I still barely know the ward at all, but everyone's been super nice so far!
Otherwise, more of the same. We had a really good night of tracting last night and we've got some solid potentials, so we'll be trying to work through revisiting those people in the next week so that we can do some teaching!
Hope things are going well for you - love you all!
