I never have time to write in my journal anymore. I was doing so good for my entire mission! Between exchanges and making phone calls at night it just doesn't happen.
Tuesday during he day we were able to meet with a few of our investigators. I love teaching! Since this was the second time I was meeting with them I felt way more comfortable and felt like I could actually talk. Then Tuesday evening I went on my first exchange. I was so nervous!!!! In the car I straight up told Sister Bulman I was nervous. Luckily she's a very sweet sister and definitely not intimidating at all. I had a lot of fun with her and the exchange felt very different being in the leadership position.
Thursday we had zone conference, which was obviously wonderful. Last Sunday I had met President Cowley, the stake president. President Cleveland had invited him to speak for part of the conference. He stood up and said how he had met Sister Mayberry the pervious week and told me to come up. I kind of started freaking out because I didn't know what he was going to do. He handed me a "Mayberry in the Midwest" festival guide that was happening that weekend. He said that the first thing he thought of when he met me was the Andy Griffith show (always happens) and that Danville IN was having a festival that weekend. He said that if he were President Cleveland he would let me go.
The afternoon session was all about how to become powerful missionaries. It helped me realize how I need to get back to some of the basics of missionary work. The key to being a powerful missionary is exercising faith. Also, being confident. Which honestly, I still struggle with every.single.stinkin.day. Friday night we went out to eat as part of a zone. An elder in our zone had to go home on Sunday because he's lost 50% of his blood and they don't know what's wrong. So it was kind of a farewell part. It was so sad even though I don't even know him. It's super hard to see missionaries go home early, especially when they don't want to.
President Cleveland let us go to the Mayberry festival! We didn't have as much luck PCing as we were hoping. But we did get to meet some members from that family ward! We also had a regional YSA activity that evening. We met at this sport complex and played games all night, well we left before 9:00. I learned that I'm definitely not very good at sand volleyball. I also realized that I'm still not a very social person haha. All the people just kind of overwhelmed me a little bit. It was fun to see YSA people from the Purdue ward that I had met though.
Church was great yesterday! The branch is huge with all the summer sales boys. But! I did meet a girl who is here for the summer who will be at BYUI this fall. I'm gonna have a friend!!!! We got to teach a lot. Fingers crossed we will be having a baptism next Saturday! We are very excited for Elliot and he's probably even more excited! We thought we were going to have to push his date back a week and he got very sad when we told him that. But we got everything worked out so now he's just got to keep living the commandments and he'll be good to go! I love teaching him. We taught him the gospel of Jesus Christ during part of Institute on Wednesday. It felt so perfect, like that's exactly where I wanted to be. Sister Gil and I were talking afterwards and we both thought it was probably one of the most perfect lessons ever. The member we brought with us was great, we were teaching in the church, Elliot understood what we were saying, etc. Watching people progress will never get old. Taking the sacrament never will either. Kind of a random switch but both Sister Gil and I couldn't wait for church yesterday.
It's funny how I morph into my companions. I've realized that I'm definitely a follower and will easily pick up habits from my companions. Yesterday we were talking to President Cleveland on the phone. Now I think Sister Gil's two favorite things to say are "I hate you" and "I'm going to kill you", but in a completely joking way. Well President asked how we were getting along and Sister Gil's response? "I hate her"....good thing we both just started laughing and he knew she was playing around. She helps me relax and just have fun. I'm excited for this week!!!!! I have another exchange starting tonight, we'll see how that goes. I love you all!!!
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