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This week went well. Monday we had a nerf war in a church building that had two levels. We made the Chapel off-limits. We played capture the flag and zombies and other games and it was fun. On Tuesday we had a trainer-trainee meeting. My favorite comment was when the commandments were likened to brakes. But dont brakes slow you down? Yes, but they also allow you to go faster. If you didn't have brakes then you wouldn't go 70mph on the highway would you? So I thought that analogy was cool. That evening we had a member of the mission presidency shadow us. We didn't have any lessons scheduled so we did some finding. We scheduled three lessons in about an hour which is awesome. The next day we went down to Salt Lake City for a meeting and we ate at Neilsons on our way back to our area. I got a doublediner burger with fries and a chocolate chip concrete. A little later that day, we had a first lesson scheduled with a 15yr old non-member and we were going to meet at the church but he never showed :( Hopefully we are able to meet with him this coming week. For dinner that day we went to a less-active and non-member couples house. They are really nice people. It was nice because we haven't been able to see them in a while. After the meal we showed the Mormon message "Flecks of Gold" and talked about it and invited them to church. Not much notable happened Thursday. Friday we had our weekly meeting. Once a month it is a Zone Training meeting led by the Zone Leaders, Sister Training Leaders and District Leaders. The Zone Leaders led a training on studying. One of them shared about one of the best basketball coaches ever, I can't remember who it was, but he said that every year, for the first practice, the coach would teach all us players how to tie their shoes, for the whole practice, and that was it. And he explained how tying our shoes is like studying our scriptures. It's simple, it's what we need to be able to move forward, it's important. On Saturday we went on exchanges, which is where you switch companions just for the day. So I stayed in my area and Elder Garvin came to my area. We set up a few appointments with members and scheduled a lesson with our recent convert of a few months. We like to share a message with members called Ask in Faith, based off of the conference talk of the same title given by David A. Bednar. In it we share the message of the Restoration and we recite the First Vision and share pieces of the talk Ask in Faith. Also it's been snowing all week on and off and it was below ten degrees so that was fun haha. The accumulation of snow is the most I've ever seen. Speaking of which, someone left their car in the church parking lot and the snow plow literally buried the car in snow. And so we helped dig it out. The family that owned the car was Tongan, and they invited we come to their house so they could give us food. And so we did, and they sent us away with three full grocery bags of food and freshly made pork and rice and mango juice. I mentioned that they were Tongan simply because they are some of the most loving, generous people I have ever met. That was most of what happened this past week. Love you all!!
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