This week has been great--as usual. But hard at the same time; Sounds like mission. It's a roller coaster, that you don't enjoy until the event is over. But after you love it, and want to go again, etc. Number's wise it was a bit slower, but it flew by!
After emailing last week, we went and played basketball like we usually do with the other Elder's. It was super fun, but i have really lost my stamina. I feel like i want to die after every time. Unfortunately, i have only gained like 2 pounds. >:( On Tuesday we went and helped a member out with service. Right when we got there, it started raining like there was no tomorrow. I got soaked just from walking--running--from the car to their house. About 20 feet. We helped him out in his barn, and when the rain let up we helped him clean out his garage. He practically has Home Depot in his back yard. So many tools!
On Wednesday we went to the library to put our area book online. We are putting everything on googledrive now, and it took 8 hours! My brain was fried after. My eye's aren't used to looking at a screen. I was a little delirious afterwards. My bed never felt so good. We only got a 1/4 of it done as well. #norestfortheweary
On Thursday we went to district meeting, and i asked Sister Anderson to teach it. She taught on what it means to have "success" as a missionary. **Side note: The librarians are talking about how Obama was rated at a 7th grade level when he tweets. Hahah I'm loving this conversation! They don't like that he takes time to tweet. If Shakespeare starts to tweet, then they will learn how as well. Too good!** It was a great lesson. For our role plays, she has us film them and then we watched them after. This blasted my confidence as a missionary to the floor. There is so much to work on! It was cool to see myself teach though. We saw our investigator afterward, and we committed him to baptism. He said yes! We just have to get him out to church now (The hardest part)!
On Friday we went up to Westfield, NY again. We weren't able to see a lot of people... That night, we went to visit a really old guy that just got out of the hospital. We went with a member as well. We knocked on the door, and answered it. We heard from the screen "I'm in the nude boys" (Meaning he was in his garments). It was so funny. He let us in, and we were going to give him a blessing. Next thing I see, he took a dive to the ground. He tripped on his slippers. It was the scariest thing. I was just praying to Heavenly Father, and telling him that he couldn't do this to me! He was laying on the ground, and after resting we helped him up. We talked a bit, then i gave him a blessing. The next day the member told us how this old man called him and said that the fall made his hip feel better--or it was the blessing. Anyway, everything was alright! He's a funny old man.
It was a good week! Our goal is to teach 20 lesson's this week, and i have faith that the Lord will provide for us. We just have to stay diligent. Hope you have an equally great week. Love ya!
Keep the Faith
Elder Birrell
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