You know guys, I think I'm starting to figure out this whole "white wash" thing. After a couple weeks of stress and pleading prays, we actually found some rhythm.
Nah, it's not as bad as I'm making it sound. I'm kinda just taking it one step at a time and hoping God pulls through. I say it all the time, but if God is going to trust 18-20 year old boys and girls to run this huge responsibility and we haven't completely ruined everything? Yeah, the church must be true. There's exhibit A for ya.
But yeah, we found some footing. We came to realize pretty dang fast that this area hasn't had much work done in a while regarding investigators in the church. You can probably a test that to the 3 consecutive whitewashes that have taken place in Cullman each only lasting 1 transfer. It can be real difficult to keep an area going when it keeps changing like that. Anyway, we found a few people to teach! How about that? I'll let you in on one of the guys we taught this past week; we'll call him John. John randomly hit us up through Facebook Messenger without even being our friend on Facebook. He said that a friend of his, who is a member, said that the church is awesome and he wanted to hear if that's really true or not. We ended up teaching him that day and man was it a great lesson. Since I am training, I gotta give my son some opportunities to shine and polish some skills so I would just give him a look at random times throughout the lesson to let him know "Your turn to speak buddy." I guess it actually worked, the lesson went really well. Spirit was strong, dude started tearing up, greenie couldn't stop smiling. Just perfect. He wants to come to church next week so that's lit. We'll give him a good time. Definitely shattered his testimony of his old church. 💔
Okay, let's talk about my son. Training is definitely different. It makes you realize some faults that you have since you're supposed to set a great example of what a missionary looks like and you may not fully know what that looks like yourself. You'll find yourself asking yourself "Why am I telling him to not do this when I'm doing it right now." 😶 Yeah, gut punch. You then proceed to repent and hope he listens to the original advice. It's actually quite a beautiful process; not being a hypocrite. By training another missionary you slowly become a better missionary because you don't wanna corrupt the little guy. Weird how that works sometimes.
Alright before I go any further, I'm not a bad missionary. Just a few kinks to work out here and there that become obvious in this situation specifically, okay? 🤷♂️
Ohhhh here's something sick that happened. My greenie lost a "what are the odds" game and had to eat like 10 Domino's brownies in 10 minutes. Elder Hays, he's kind of a skinny guy. Quite a delicate fella. To be honest, I had no faith he'd finish the challenge. Boy was I wrong. He channeled some sort of inner demon and destroyed that whole cardboard box of brownies. I mean, he did about puke his guts out afterwards, but it made for a good video amiright.
We also had an in-person meeting with our zone. We were having a discussion, something about missionary work, and the cutest thing happened. My son raises his hand to answer a question and goes "I know I'm just a greeny so this may not mean much.." Oh honey. If you only you knew that your opinion is more valid than mine. The zone hyped him up so much after he said that. Needless to say, he definitely felt like his voice was heard after that little exchange.
Mkay well, I don't really have much else to say. We may or may not be able to put 2 people on date for baptism this week. 👀 I guess you'll just have to wait and see.
Have a super blessed day y'all,
Elder Jackson Batman 🦇
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