Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Week 84 - Time Flies! (6/4/2018)




Mission Tour

Wow has time flown here in Buhl!! One transfer down here and it has been awesome!! Best part of this week are all the milestones!  June 5th, 20 months in the field, June 7th, 20 years old, June 8th my brothers graduation!! It's so awesome!! Shout out to you bro for graduating!! Well this week has been a real busy one. We got a lot accomplished. 

Wednesday we had Mission Tour, which is basically where an Apostle or a Member of the 70 comes and sees the mission and how it is doing as a whole and then gives a huge training to help us missionaries out. We had the opportunity of being with Elder Taylor of the 70 (he gave the Am I Child of God talk this past General Conference). He taught us how we can find more people and teach tons better and teach the way Christ taught. It was an eye opening experience and it was really neat!! We learned a lot that we applied that night in one of our lessons. We decided to use the scriptures a lot more this past week to help us in teaching and we saw some huge blessings by doing that simple thing. As we taught using the scriptures a whole new atmosphere was present in the room and it was awesome! I wish I could say it was a huge success story, but not all stories end up like that. 
Got to see Elder Blaisdell again

Thursday as we all know is the famous planning session. It was awesome how much we got done in that planning session. As we were planning it was down pouring so hard! We booked it back to our house and and got all dried up. While at the house, we did our studies and then we tried to do something a little different. We decided to call a whole bunch of former investigators (those that were taking lessons from missionaries, but haven't in awhile) and we talked with those that answered to see if they would like to have us come back and share a message with them. A lot said no, but we had a few that said yes. It was really awesome. It stopped raining after our dinner so we used that to our advantage and we went and met some new people. We had an appointment that fell through cause they were sick, but we did get an amazing contact out of it a few houses down. We then had our wonderful English class....but no one showed up :( I used it to prepare for somethings later in the night which was pretty cool.

Friday we went on Exchanges with some Elders in Twin and I went to his area. It was pretty fun. We did some service in the afternoon loading a dresser, a mattress, a box frame, and a frame. We got it all in and the people wanted us to help unload it and they said it was only a few miles down the road. Turns out, it was more than that. We almost ended up in Buhl. It's funny looking back on it. we then had some great lessons that night and an amazing first lesson as we taught this lady for the first time. She felt the spirit, we felt the spirit, and the member felt the spirit. It was awesome. One of those good moments in a missionaries mission. 

Saturday we exchanged back at a baptism and we came back to Buhl. That day we just went pure contacting and by the end of it all, we were tired. Had dinner which rejuvenated us, but back at we went. We met this cool guy to close the night whom we've been trying to visit for awhile, but he's been gone. We finally got to meet him and it lasted quite awhile going back and forth talking with him about his beliefs and the Gospel. It was really cool. 
           
Sunday was such a great day. Went to church and had tons of meetings like normal. We had time to squeeze one of our studies in and then off to a lesson. Had the lesson and then dinner. Then after dinner we squeezed in another study before another lesson. They were a no show, so we went contacting again. We met a really cool family after staying pretty diligent and it was neat. They had us in and we got to talking with them and it was great as we got to know them and share our personal testimonies of the Gospel. Of course though, we forgot one of our studies and that is what we ended yesterday night with. It was coo. I also got asked to play a musical number for one of the wards we cover. It's a packed day that day cause there is a missionary "farewell" talk. It'll be pretty cool to see what I come up with.

This week has been awesome and I've been enjoying every minute of it! I love you all and I hope you have a great week this week!! 

Elder Ruesch

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