Hey everyone!
Well, I can't believe that I am saying this but I am staying for a
fifth transfer in Central Point! Holy cow, I couldn't believe it when
the zone leaders told me! We have a great transfer ahead of us!
Monday was pretty fun. We had zone breakfast at the place where the
zone leaders live and that was yummy! A couple hours later, we got a
net set up from some volleyball! It was a ton of fun and it got pretty
intense! We took the 1st Ward Elders grocery shopping after we were
done and while we were doing that, I realized that I had grabbed
another Elder's iPad! Ooops! I was able to get it back by the end of
the night so that was good. We had dinner with our new ward mission
leader so that was fun!
Tuesday morning we had our normal lesson with Brother Mad***. We read
a chapter out of the book of Alma and he really liked it. After he
took us to lunch, we tried seeing a couple of people before our lesson
with a former investigator named Trent. When we showed up to his
place, he had totally forgotten and was going to be heading out the
door in fifteen minutes! However, we were able to teach him still and
get a return appointment set up for this upcoming week. After dinner,
we went on splits with Brother Kub*** and Brother Thur***. I went with
Brother Kube and we were able to talk to Sister Jord***. She was super
nice and friendly! Her German Shepard though makes for a good guard
dog! That was our only real success on the split. We knocked on a part-member's door but we didn't get an answer and we tried a man whom I
have never met before and this lady started getting agitated and said
"Don't talk religion to me boy! I see your name tag! I know who you
are!" Despite the situation, we handled it calmly and asked if this
guy lived her and she said no as she slammed the door. That was a fun
experience to have on splits haha! After splits, we were trying to
figure out what to do because it ended a lot shorter than we thought.
The thought popped into my head to try and see Claudia, a lady that
Elder Ellsworth and I tracted into back in February. When we knocked
on the door, she was home! We shared a message about building up faith
in Christ and how we can have a firm foundation in Him. It was fun
talking about foundations with her because she is a realtor or
something and it was a good way to help her come closer to Christ!
Wednesday morning we drove out to Sister Stam***'s home to dig a hole
for a tub of sorts. I don't really know how else to describe it haha!
We had to dig a pretty big hole to get that sucker to fit! However, we
were able to get that knocked out in an hour and a half and she fed us
Mexican food for lunch out on the patio. We went back into Central
Point and spent some time at the Pea***'s home and took pictures
because there was that possibility that I was leaving and they were
leaving the next day for a vacation! After saying our premature good-byes to the Pea***'s, we didn't have very much else go on! We were told
to retake an online Mobile Device course on our iPads before the
weekend so we decided to go to that. Well it wasn't set up yet so we
headed back into Gold Hill to take dinner and prepare for Kevin's
lesson. On the way in, Brother Vit*** happened to be in front of us and
signaled for us to turn into the local Figaros and he bought us a
pizza! It was super good. We had a good lesson with Kevin that night
about tithing and fast offerings. We are super pumped about him
getting baptized on the 16th!
Thursday morning we had weekly planning and I made some really good
plans for what we can do to help out the people here in Central Point.
After lunch we went over to the Froel***'s to drop some stuff off and
talked to Brother Froel***, one of the former ward mission leaders,
about Brother Badizade*** and what we could do to help him. We had a
lesson with Dana before driving up to Brother Badizade***'s home. We
had another interesting discussion with him. He is such an intelligent
man and needs to reason to overcome the probability of something
happening. He mentioned all this different things about the
probability of this thing happening and the probability of this thing
happening. Luckily, Elder Best is very much into that kind of stuff
and was able to connect with him well. Unfortunately we weren't able
to make much progress with him... We hope we will be able to someday!
Right before dinner, Samantha and Eric texted us and told us they need
to reschedule our lesson for that night to Saturday because of a trip
they were making up to Eugene. We wanted to stop by their place as
soon as we got the text but we were about to run late to our dinner so
we decided to try to catch them after. Well, because of the way I
parked the truck and the path that I took to get to the main road took
us by the park near our apartment and we saw Eric and Samantha there!
We pulled over and talked to them for a few minutes and left them some
scriptures to read. After a yummy dinner at KFC, we had correlation to
end our night.
Friday morning was the last district meeting of the transfer! It went
pretty well. We were all anxious about our calls haha. When district
meeting ended and after we took a zone picture, we went with the zone
leaders, Spanish, and the Medford 4th Elders and Elder Carroll to
Sonic. Elder Carroll was by himself because his companion, Elder Nash,
is the new AP! We had a fun time with them there. We went back to the
apartment and got changed into service clothes to go mow some lawns
for a couple of members. Sister Winter's lawn was a piece of cake as
always. Sister Del***'s lawn was a bit tougher! It was a pretty big
lawn to cover with an electric lawn mower and we couldn't even mow the
whole backyard because most of it is covered in grass that goes up to
my chest. We mowed as much as we could of what was already mowed. We
cooled off and got changed to go see Mike. We had a great lesson about
prayer with him and he even said the closing prayer! He has not done
that in one of our lessons since I have been here! It was pretty cool.
We drove into Gold Hill and took dinner there. We had some cash that a
member gave us to us for dinner that night so we decided to grab a
burger from the local burger joint near the apartment. We both got the
burger known as the .50 Cal burger! Three patties, three cheeses. It
was so good. The owner was quite impressed with the fact that we
didn't get a single thing on our white shirts! When we finished up
with dinner, we tried to see a couple of members who were in our
teaching pool but we didn't talk to a single one. We had a great
lesson about coming to church with the Janko*** family! The son who
lives there told us that he was planning on going to church in
Roseburg and that he was going to take his girlfriend as well! That
was a good note to end on!
Saturday morning we were anxiously awaiting our calls and they came
pretty early. We were startled to hear that only four missionaries
were leaving out of eighteen despite some being here for a long time!
We walked over to Calvary Temple and pushed carts. It didn't take very
because we only had to push fourteen orders through! We did get some
good stuff though so that was pretty awesome. After lunch, we walked
around and talked to a ton of people. It wasn't necessarily about
gospel things but we were able to put ourselves out there! The reason
why we did that was because there was a city wide yard sale and there
were a ton of people out and about! It was a ton of fun! We were even
able to talk to Angelo for a little bit at his yard sale before he got
swamped with people. We taught Adam a little bit about the Great
Apostasy but he kept getting off topic so I am not sure how much he
got out of it! After dinner I saw one of the coolest things ever! We
had a lesson with Samantha and Eric about the Word of Wisdom and after
we taught the lesson, we asked Eric if we could take his cigarettes
and throw them out. He grabbed his last pack and took all of the
cigarettes out and snapped them in half! He threw it in the trash and
when we left we saw him throw the trash in the dumpster! It was super
cool!
Sunday was awesome! We were asked to help bless Samantha's baby and we
gladly accepted! It was a beautiful blessing and I am so grateful to
have been a part of it. Fast and testimony meeting was what Samantha
needed to hear also so that was an extra bonus as well! We were in
church again from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm. We were pretty tired haha! We
drove over to the Froel***'s to pick up the granite and man it looked
good. We had dinner with the Sta***'s and then we had a lesson with a
less active in the Gold Hill ward fall through so we talked to
Samantha and Eric about Samantha's baptism. We had correlation to end
our night.
This was a good week for us! Thank you for all your prayers and your
love! I'm bummed I am missing Drew's wedding but it is for a pretty
good cause I think! I know this church is true! There is no doubt!
Love y'all!
Elder Jacob Tonini
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