Lot's of traveling this week but it was good!
So Monday we got together with part of the Zone and played Football and Death ball, super fun! In fact right after I'm done emailing today we get to go play.... ULTIMATE!!!!!! Sweetness. :D Then we drove down to Farmington for MLC (Mission Leadership Conference) tomorrow at the mission home.
Tuesday we had MLC. We just talked about how we can become better leaders and how we can improve the mission. It was a really great experience. Elder Provard had to come down for some stuff so I got to see and talk to him for a little bit. Oh man I Love that Elder! Then we travel back to Bluff which took the rest of the night. We were able to stay in our trailer though because someone had come and checked it.
Wednesday we had a great lesson with a native. We went for a walk and talked about the Restoration then we stopped and had him say a prayer. AWESOME! Then he got up and said he was going to feel great the rest of the day. Almost immediately we turned and saw that his dogs were killing is Aunt's sheep. (Face + Palm) So we got the dogs off of the sheep and then Elder Tucker and I ran back to the truck. It felt like I was back in SOI running with my backpack in dirt. Oh it was fun! Then we brought the truck back and hauled the sheep to his house. The sheep ended up dying. So that was an adventure in it of itself. We had gotten some bikes from Farmington and so we spent the night fixing them. I have this Youth bike that has to stay in gear 1-5. Let's just say that I miss the Pacific bike that is back in WJ. Haha :D
Thursday I had a really incredible experience. We had Zone Training. So ever since I had gotten to Bluff we've been preparing for it. Well Wednesday night came and I just didn't feel right about it. So I decided to pray about it and I changed what I was going to train on. In the end, after praying about it, I decided to train on the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But I really didn't have much time to prepare. So I got up there and the Spirit just took over. It was incredible. That was one of the best training's that I have ever been apart of. I know have a much greater testimony of, Taking no thought of what you should say before hand and just letting the spirit guide you. It was so Amazing!
Friday we finally got our bikes up to riding and we got to go BIKING ON THE REZ!!! That's way fun! I'm surprised how much I've missed biking! There is a lot of sand here too so you randomly start drifting. It's just straight up awesome. I just wish I had a better bike. :)
Saturday we biked across Bluff to try and go contact some referrals. Well right before our turn off we saw some sheep and then came 3, not so friendly dogs. So we just biked through them, but I'm so glad I was on a bike! On the way back Elder Tucker actually kicked one of them in the face. Missionaries one, Dogs zero. Game, Set, Match. MWHAHAHAHAHA! Then we kept biking and I saw a Blue trail blazer that looked like one of my recent converts. Then it pulled over and out came my recent converts!!!! Oh what a wonderful feeling to see them. We talked for a minute and then we got going again. Later that day we were in the truck down by the Arizona border. We were at a place called Blackwater and we needed to get to a place called Navajo Cortez, about 10 miles away. Well the regular way took a lot of miles so we decided to try and save some miles and go cross country. We got to the main road and then saw there was a dirt road straight in front of us. We said, "this road will work. 40 miles later we found ourselves in Navajo Cortez. Oh, the explorations of a missionary! :D
Sunday we had church then we got to go teach a lesson. Well the native were going to see really knew how to talk. WOW! We were there for probably an hour and got maybe a hundred words out. Oh man, fun stuff. :D Then we got to go up to Blanding and meet with the stake president. It's crazy to be a Zone Leader over my first area. Then we got to take numbers for the zone that night. That's some crazy insane stuff. Lot's of numbers and names going around. I also got to learn how to FAX something. :)
It's been a good week for the missionaries of Bluff. We've also been doing language study for a half hour every day and I figured out that I'm been spelling my closing remark wrong this whole time. (Face + Palm) :D So let me do it as correctly as I can. There are some high marks that I don't know how to put on the computer. So, until next time, Hagoonee'!
Elder Bryson Chipman
No comments:
Post a Comment