July 8th

Meeting President and Sister Cleveland went pretty well on Friday. I kind of feel bad for them, President Cleveland is definitely overwhelmed haha. I think he told about three sport stories, yeah I'm going to be hearing a lot of those for the rest of my mission. Thankfully Sister Cleveland reminds me a lot of Sister Collins. When she got up and spoke she told us that she's sorry she cries a lot, little does she know that we are completely used to it. He told his story of when he was coaching. The team wasn't doing well, they had lost most of their games. So they were at practice and he made them run lines. He said for the first couple of minutes the players were touching all the lines and making the time, but after a little while some of the players stopped touching. He blew the whistle and made them start over again. Once again, after a little while some of the players stopped touching the lines. He blew the whistle again. Instead of yelling at them (again) he turned it into a teaching moment. He taught them about integrity. How could they reach their full potential as a team if everyone wasn't having integrity? Each player needed to be fully committed to touching all the lines. So they did the drill again, and never again did any player ever not touch all the lines. So then he applied it to missionary work. We need to touch all the lines, we need to help our investigators touch all the lines, etc.

Then we had a testimony meeting. If only we could invite our investigators to an hour testimony meeting with missionaries....they would all get converted. Enough said, in some ways it was the best hour of my life.

I'm grateful for missionary leaders, seriously they are the best.

Sometime on Thursday or Friday I had this thought to ask Sister Magellon if she had come to know the Book of Mormon is true. We went and read Jacob 2 with her Saturday morning. As we were wrapping up I asked her. She said yes. That one day she was just thinking about it and she had a desire to read it more and more. Finally! She's been an investigator for a year or two.

Spencer's baptism was great. The member of the bishopric who was supposed to be there forgot, so it started half an hour late. I was nervous the entire time because the members were getting impatient. I didn't know what else to do. What matters is that he got baptized and is now confirmed.

Oh the 4th of July was pretty fun. A member invited us out to her house. There were several families there. Sister Roney has three copies of an original Book of Mormon, so I got to look through one (the pictures). We talked to Brother Roney about serving his mission in Argentina and he explained how weird it is to come home. Then we listened to fireworks and we fell asleep.

Not much else happened this week. We went and gave service for a member. I got to paint a fence. For some reason I've always pictured missionaries painting fencing, so that was pretty fun.