I'm sad I won't be home for the 4th of July, but I guess I'll have to settle with all the fireworks here. This week has been really great though, full of fun and work all at the same time.
I guess the highlight of the week would be the all mission activity we had on Friday. We woke up and headed to Morristown and that's where the fun began. We all got our "Morristown New Jersey Mission" T-shirts, and played a few games of Ninja Destruction while we waited for the leadership meeting to be over. Chester Elton was our visiting speaker, he has 6 books that were on the New York Times Best Seller list. He came and talked to us about how team work is so important, and how we should root for each other and seek to build each other up.
After the first part of the activity, we ate some lunch and watched zone skits. Our skit was about what sisters do on P-day, and so we would give Ideas of what sisters do on P-day, and they would say different things that Elders did. Elder Ferrell's and my part was about practicing to propose to our girlfriends. This is basically the script, although it was a lot funnier being able to see it.
E. Ferrell: "Elder Hicks, you've been talking about Chelsea every day, and you don't even know how to propose to her. How do you expect to be able to do it on your second day home? We need to practice."
E. Hicks: "Correction, you mean my first day home. You know, I'm just not sure how to do it. I mean, do I kneel on one knee, 2 knees, sitting?"
E. Ferrell: "Haven't you ever seen a romance movie?"
E. Hicks: "No... My parents never let me watch anything but disney movies" (Laughter)
E. Ferrell: "You know what, it's all about the committment. So you kneel down on one knee, and you give the committment which is?"
E. Hicks: "I'm not really sure."
E. Ferrell: "Well you are asking her to marry you, so the committment is, will you marry me?"
E. Hicks: "Oh Yeah, that makes sense."
E. Ferrell: "The committment is what we've been studying for 2 years, chapter 11 of preach my gospel says it all."
E. Hicks: "You know what, forget it, I'm just going to text her and ask her." (More Laughter)
You just had to be there for it to be funny.
Anyway, after the skits we headed to a park to play some famous Sister Jeppson games, which included broom hockey, gadianton robber balloon popping, bubble gum blowing obstacle course, and scripture mastery contest from the president. It was a day full of fun, but also full of a lot heat. Especially since I was out in my jeans. I don't think there is going to be any way for me to gain weight this summer. The humidity is so killer.
We've been involved with a lot of service this week too which included painting someones house, and helping someone move in. We also had to go help take town the dividers in the old mission office and take them to the assistants house. That gave us less time to focus on proselyting, but things in our area are still going pretty well.
We had a really good few lessons with Gino and Josue from Mexico. They are super awesome and Josue is especially prepared. He's been reading and praying and says he feels good. We tried setting them with a date, but they had a few doubts that we didn't have enough time to really cover, so unfortunately we weren't able to set them, but maybe the next lesson we have with them.
Sadly we got dropped by the seventh day adventist Victor. From the looks of it, he's got a lot of family opposition and for that he'd rather not get mixed up in learning the Gospel. You can tell that personally he wants to learn, but the timing just isn't right. We were pretty sad to hear it, and hopefully one day some missionaries can harvest the planted seed.
We are also teaching a guy right now named Papi. He's really old, and is borderline accountable, but he accepted a baptismal date, and understands he needs to be clean of his sins. It could be super difficult to teach him though because he can't remember much. We were hammering the steps to prayer into his head, because he kept thinking it was "in the name of the father, the son, and the holy ghost." We were trying to get him to remember, Start with Heavenly Father, and end in the name of Jesus Christ. We'll see how he progresses. He has a date for August 5th, but we'll see if we can even make it by then.
Sunday came to a nice close as we went to see the Linderman family. They gave us a humongous piece of steak, some yummy potatoes and fruit. Then we finished it all off as we entered into the basement to open up the freezer full of quarts of ice-cream. Brother Linderman loves his icecream, and he must have had like 50 quarts to choose from. It was pretty delicious.
Mikayla and Nicole are still set to get baptized on the 15th of July, and we finally got them to church. Elder Ferrell and I just need to focus on finding. I guess my biggest goal at this point would be to find a family to baptize before I get home. I'm running out of time, but hopefully through faith, diligence, and obedience, we can make miracles happen.
Thanks so much for everything. I love you all so much and I hope you have a happy fourth of July!
Love,
Elder Hicks
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