Once again I hope that you all had a great week! Elder Hillebrant and I have had a couple of rough weeks on Tuesday we had to drive up to the mission office because someone keyed the side of our car really bad. We had to go to a shop and get an estimate of how much it would cost to replace it. After that we went to Specialized Training. We took a picture after and it's up on the mission blog. Most of us look retarded because the sun is right in our face! I look double retarded because I just got a fresh haircut. Anyway, the specialized training was about using our time wisely and using the Lord in our planning efforts. It was awesome. I wish you guys could meet President Pingree. He is so amazing and a great teacher. He also would make a great comedian.
The reason this was a hard week is because everything fell through! There was one appointment that we had that didn't fall through. It was with Michael on Wednesday, but I was on exchanges so I missed it. haha. I went on an exchange with Elder Hamelau. Who is a Spanish missionary. One of the appointments we went to was really cool because I understood like half of what was said. Of course I didn't really have any input but oh well. haha. At least I can bear my testimony in Spanish. We went to an old lady's house that someone told Elder Hamelau to go visit. It was such a cool experience. She's in her 80's and has been told repeatedly that she could go any day. We talked for about an hour about the gospel and she bore her testimony to us of it. We gave her a blessing and it was awesome. The Plan of Salvation is so great. She shared an experience that she had that goes along with something in her Patriarchal blessing. I won't share it because it's kind of personal and I don't wanna put her story all over the internet haha. It was just a great experience.
On Thursday we went over to Gilbert's house and watched The Testaments with him and his wife. I'm sure most of you have seen it but it's probably been awhile since you last saw it. I encourage you to watch it again. It's great and very spiritual. On Saturday our zone went to do some service at the Houston Food Bank. We were surprised that it got approved because it was outside of the mission. It's in the East Mission! So I was in Shayla's mission for about 4 hours! It was great. We put boxes of food into trucks and then we made bags of oranges in the preparation room. At the end they tell you how many pounds of food that the volunteers collectively loaded and prepared. That morning we loaded 18,000 boxes! It was great fun. Other than that our week was pretty disappointing. Full of dropped appointments and hundreds of wasted miles going to those appointments. haha. I guess I shouldn't say that miles are wasted. haha. I did get a letter from a great friend this week so I was very excited about that :) Yesterday we got a new Ward Mission Leader in the Melbourne ward. He's young and he's very excited and motivated. Hopefully we will get to see some improvement in the ward effort. We are really excited. Although Elder Hillebrant is probably out this next transfer. He's been here 7 months! I finally had my first correlation with the Ward Mission Leader. haha. Well that's it for this past week. Sorry there wasn't much to report about. I've heard a lot about friends deciding to go on a mission. I'm proud of them and I know that they won't regret it. I love you all!
love, Elder Steed
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