Hello Everyone!
These past few weeks have been pretty
crazy. For anyone wondering, the weather is still holding up here. It
is almost December, and it is currently 75 out, so I can't complain
about that. Transfers are this week, which means that a lot of
missionaries will be coming in and out of this area. Fortunately, I am
still in the Leland ward. I am still in training, so I will be here for
this next transfer, but who knows after that! I could be in a completely
different area in six weeks!
These past couple
of weeks, we have been able to get a lot of service done! Our friend,
Buddy Watkins, and his family are moving, so we got to help out with
that over the past couple of weeks. We got to load up the truck a couple
of times, and then one time we went over there to rake leaves to get
his house ready to sell. It was so awesome to see how grateful he was,
and it made us feel so good for helping him. His family is so awesome,
and they will be missed.
We
also helped another family move this past week. It fell on the same day
as our district council, so we were able to get all 8 missionaries in
our district in on the move that day. Other members of our ward were there as
well, and the move only took a couple of hours. It was awesome.
Afterwords, one of the members of the family wrote about it on Facebook,
and she was very appreciative of what we did, and it made us feel so
good. Other than that, we have had other service opportunities, but
that's been our main one over the past couple of weeks.
For
those of you that don't know, missionary work has changed a lot since
the pandemic has started. Before Covid, we were able to knock on doors,
and street contact to find new people, but now, we obviously can't do
that. Now, a lot of our finding is done through our Facebook page,
Following Jesus Christ in Wilmington and Jacksonville. On this page, we
make videos about different topics to try to invite others to come unto
Christ. It's super cool, because people will reach out to us. It's like
they are knocking on our door, how cool is that!
Things
are moving along here in Leland. There's a lot of potential, and it's
only a matter of time before missionary work really starts rolling, and
we can't wait!
Elder Orchard
In front of the USS North Carolina
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