Week 76 - It's Been a Long Day... (4/9/2018)

So this week has been a really long week. So we found out Monday that we couldn't leave our house cause the rent had already been paid so we couldn't be kicked out apparently. So that was good news for the time being. We had a good preparation day and just got things done. Got to play some indoor soccer and I was really happy about that. We then came home and tried a whole bunch of people and we were able to contact one. She wasn't interested, but it's okay. No discouragement here!

Depressed photo of leaving the house

Tuesday was an interesting day to say the least. We got up and got ready for our day and we decided we would help our landlord clean out his stuff out of the house that we were living in. We started helping him and we got through a lot of his things and we were able to clean out the basement entirely. We emptied and loaded a trailer a whole bunch of times and we got load after load out and moved. We then get a call around 4:30 from the mission office telling us that we have to be out by that night. Luckily we had one of our suitcases packed anticipating this moment, but we had to rush to get everything else packed. It sucked! It was crazy!! We were told that if we weren't out by that night, we would be arrested the following day. Pretty intense if you ask me. We got our things packed and we were out of there by like 8:30. Did we know where we were going nope!! But we were out! We ended up being moved into the Acequia Elders house cause it is the biggest and the closest to our area. It's a party and the tables have turned (cause we housed them on our floor for months). 

Wednesday was a long day and we just got to work. We had a meeting in Declo and we got there on time leaving from Acequia, pretty long drive. We tried a lot of people after that meeting and we had two good successes. We had a good meeting with a less active and hopefully they will come to church. And later in the evening we met another Less Active and we had a good visit with them. It lasted us through the night and we were kinda shocked. It was kind of a 3rd floor last door scenario. It was pretty good. 

Elder Cooke & I enjoying our day

Thursday was the great and holy weekly planning session and boy, did it suck. It was really quick, but we got good goals and plans set to help all those that we come into contact with to bring them closer to Christ. We then had good lessons later that evening. Best part was that we had planned our day and I completely ignored those plans and went with the spirit on a few of them. It was pretty cool as we saw some great results in meeting with people by doing that. 

Friday was long, but that's because most of our day was spent driving. So we went on Exchanges and I got to go back to Boise for this exchange it was great!!! I loved it!!! I was on Boise State campus with one of the Assistants and we just had a blast contacting people. There are a whole bunch of people that we could talk to! It was such a fun exchange!!! 

Saturday we went and contacted people that same morning and tried a whole bunch of people. We didn't get into any doors, but we did talk to some people. We then made the drive back to Rupert, met in Glenns Ferry and then made the drive back to Rupert. Long drive, but it was all good. We tried a whole bunch of people later that day, but it was pretty rough. We then tried a lot more people and had nothing come up. I just had to be diligent and make it through the day. 

Rain in Rupert

Sunday was church and it was the same thing. We had one person show up to church that we weren't expecting to show up. Translated Sacrament meeting for her, but then she took off cause there weren't any other Hispanics there. I can't really argue with her. We then just worked all day. Skipped dinner (well they were sick and they dropped it off for us) and we just worked. Nothing happened though... It was just a loooonnnnnggggg day... But it was good for me.

This has been a good week and I'm looking forward to what this week has in store. We still don't have our own house, but we will get one hopefully soon. I love you all and I miss you all a lot!! Have a good week everybody!!!

Elder Ruesch