Let me just say that I LOVE my mission! What a fantastic week! Let me tell you about it.....
Monday, we went to Cortez for a Zone P-day. On our way over there we went into a pretty sweet hail storm. It was legit, but it's been a while since I've seen a true Utah hail storm so it was nice. When we got there each District did a skit for the rest of the zone, oh and President and Sister Batt were there too. :D In our skit we tried to get a referral from a member using a part of our personal background and we all got rejected except for the last elder. So for example, Elder Edwards is from Texas so he used Texas slang, one of the sisters is a Cheerleader and she acted like one. You can probably guess what I did... Yep I did mine like a Marine Corps Drill Instructor. Oh there is one more thing you should probably know, the "member" we were trying to get referrals from was President Batt. So yes, I got to yell at my mission president and I didn't get in trouble. :D (Talk about a unique experience! :D ) After the skits we went out and played kickball. Then we came back and played dodgeball with nylon things that had flour in them. It was interesting stuff, if i can get the picture of the after math I'll send it home.
Tuesday we met with C & T and got to read the BOM with them. We also got to meet and talk with this really cool guy, J. He's a less active member and is absolutely hysterical! So he lives on some farm land and he was telling us that he would open up his back sliding glass door bring out his rifle and shooting stand and shoot at the prairie dogs that were digging holes in his field. He said he was going to show us the next time we came over! I'm so excited for that! We got to meet with another Less Active, B, who recently got engaged and is doing really well in work. He served his mission in Australia and has some cool souvenirs from his mission too!
On Wednesday I went on exchange with Elder Jones down to Bluff. We spent the day near White Rock. We actually tracked about a third of the houses there and I saw my first real hogon! We then spent the rest of the day driving around the Reservation, aka the Res, trying to contact people with no success. While we were driving around we listened to the song of "As I went Down in the River to Pray", oh man did that song remind me of Joel Hanson! It made me laugh cause Joel is freaking hilarious! It also reminded me of him helping me with that song for my solo and ensemble piece for my senior year in choir. I need some help from the people that read the blog, I want to talk to some people because I didn't get all the opportunities to do so before I left. If you know any of these people please ask them to write me because I would really like to talk to them; Justin Cook and or Maddie Cavonas (If I spelled that wrong I'm really sorry) and Thomas Dissel. Also could some one write and tell me who Elder Durtschi's MTC teachers were. Thanks! :D
Thursday we had District Meeting and I got to play the piano for that, wow do I miss playing the piano. Niki, could you send me copies of Cristifori's Dream, Go the Distance, and Journey West. Also send me my Hymn book thanks. :D We got to go and talk with G & F which went well. We are slowing getting to talk about gospel topics with them! :D We then went on splits cause we had set overlapping appointments but it worked out. I took the ward mission leader, WML, and went and saw B. He's a native that has a slight learning disorder but he is a great kid and really started to understand what we were teaching. We got to meet with B & S after and read the BOM. Wow have they progressed. They brought in their nieces and nephews in to read with us and one of them read half the chapter... FREAKING AWESOME!!!!!
Friday we had weekly planning so that took up most of the day. But we got to go down and visit M and set up a service project to help him dig some holes for his deck around his house. That night we had dinner with the Braford family and the father is an FBI agent which is funny cause that morning I read Dustin's letter that he sent me about the FBI agent. BTW Dustin, great letter and thanks for the two articles. Oh and no need to cut me any slack we got a picture of the spider, I'll attach it at the bottom if I can or I'll send it in another e-mail. It's not the greatest picture but it's still a picture. :) Then we went and meet with N and T, a 10 year old and a 7 almost 8 year old, he turns 8 on the 23 of April I think my dad would agree with me that that is a good day. :D Wow were those kids smart!!!! The lesson plan was to go in and teach 3 points of the first lesson. We got through those three point in about 2 minutes... ya they are brilliant kids. So we ended up teaching the whole first lesson. :) Our next lesson cancelled so we went out and tried to get some TTI's. We saw some people out on their front porch then they walked into their house. So we went up and knocked on their door. After a while a guy came to the door drew the cloth back that was covering the window saw us and freaked out and walk away. It was one of the funniest things ever. We then went and read the BOM with the D family. After we got finished reading we talked with them for a little bit and J really opened up to us! He brought out his arrow head collection and I asked if he could make me a leather scripture case cause he makes sattles for a living. He said he could!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TALK ABOUT EXCITEMENT!!!!!
On Saturday we had 2 service projects!!!! We went and moved sprinklers for A & T and then dug some holes for M. After we dug the holes we had a lesson on the Word of Wisdom. We had dinner at Bro. Fords house, the MMA fighter we work out within the morning. He made us Thai food which was actually pretty good, but something that is interesting the engagement pictures of him and his wife are taken at the Jordan River Parkway at the bottom of Whinchester. I Freaked out when I saw that picture. :D "I KNOW WHERE THAT IS!!!!! IT'S LIKE 2 MINUTES FROM MY HOUSE!!!!" Haha. After dinner we went down to White Mesa to start tracking it out. The first door we knocked on, the FIRST door we knocked on the invited us we set up a time to meet with them and then one of them asked for a blessing. That was a really neat spiritual experience for me. On our way back to B-town, Blanding :), someone called us and asked if we could come give their baby a blessing because he was having a hard time breathing. So I got to bless that time since I anointed down in White Mesa (and Jessica if you are wondering yes White Mesa is South of Blanding so it is DOWN there. :D ) Two blessing in one day, wow good stuff.
Sunday I got to go to PEC with the first ward until I went with the 8th ward WML down to White Mesa for sacrament meeting. It was great. One of the people that bore their testimonies mentioned Elder Edwards and I that we came and visited her yesterday when she was having a bad day. I also saw a women there who we invited to church and didn't think would come. Good stuff! After church we went and stopped by E to see if he was home, he was so we taught him about the restoration. It was one of the most powerful lessons I've ever experienced. Not only did he feel the spirit he was able to identify and recognize it. WOW! We also got to meet with B & S again. They are absolutly fantastic!
So that was my totally amazing week! What is something you have read from the scriptures that has improved your life? I'd like to hear what everyone says. I personally like 1 Nephi 3: 7. Anything that is placed before me I can overcome with the help of my father in heaven. I know this church is true and I am having the time of my life here on my mission! Hagonet!
Elder Chipman
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