It was definitely a week of turning around for the whole
zone and us as we hit our highest mark of meetings the whole transfer.
We have spent a lot of time on the streets talking to people and asking
them the questions of the soul. I really love contacting and am glad to
talk to everyone on the streets.
We like to throw out new ideas every week in order to get the zone
excited and the work moving forward here in the Yekaterinburg Mission.
One of the biggest highlights of this last week was the contacting blitz
that my companion and I put together for the zone. (The Amazing Race)
We had the senior couple, Elder and Sister C, and us standing at
the check points contacting as the companionship's went to destinations
completing tasks in collecting numbers and names for the awesome Elders
in another area of the city. It turned out well as some companionship's got
invited to teach a lesson in a home even! I had extra money on my MSF
card and treated everyone for a ice cream cone in our zone and shared a
spiritual thought on unity and us being a team. After that experience I felt the trust that Heavenly Father and
President R have in me as a leader of the zone here in
Yekaterinburg. The activity left smiles on everyone's' faces in seeing
the accomplishments they made and overall loved the change up.
This past week however, has been tough because of the fact that we are trying to build our investigator pool up in this
new area and trying to get to know people in this branch. It is tedious
work, but we are continuing to be diligent in our efforts and complying
to the rules and being obedient with exactness. The best view about what
I do every week is the fact that it is all fun and by living the gospel
and the rules everything works out. Missionary work should not be
stressful and looked at as a job. In reality it is not a mind set that
will be forgotten after the mission but a life style of representing
what you believe and answering questions through your personal testimony
of the truth. I have had fun this transfer and that includes the time
in Chelyabinsk as well. I am glad to be apart of building the kingdom on
this side of the world!
In the struggle for new investigators and adjusting to new apartments and
transports, we have been blessed by our efforts from street contacting.
We have some promising people on our list of names and have a list of
people in the branch to go visit. I love the members here and the
relationship that I have built with them. We have fun every week seeing
many members and their nonmember friends on our weekly capture the flag
activities and on lesson's at member's houses. We are laying the
foundation for the future of our area. We have been celebrating our
successes with tacos and listening to good old EFY music! ha-ha.. Oh and
I learned how to make stuffed peppers last week. We made our own after having some at a member's house and they were the
bomb! I am not just saying that as a hungry missionary, but in reality.
We
had three member present meetings yesterday at D's house and
played a quick game of Settlers of Zarahemla! I almost won. D won
even while he was taking a little nap during the game! Next time it is
my time to win! ha-ha.. We are having a great time in here and trying
to stay out of the rain from time to time. ha-ha.. Seems that the
Russian fall might come earlier this year!
Love you all and have a good last few weeks of summer until school starts!
Elder LeFevre
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