Week 80: Trottin' through Etown

I am convinced that these last few weeks have been some of the busiest times of my mission. Like holy cow! It has been so fun to see us work hard and hit two days of 30 testifying contacts this week.


I know I did it last week, but there is just so much stuff to get through, and I don't want to bore anyone with paragraphs, so I'm gonna bullet point again.

- The Cuh got baptized (aka Isaac)! Got to zoom in the day before Thanksgiving and see my youngest brother get baptized. Super exciting!

- Thanksgiving Day! Our mission did a Turkey Trot Thursday morning again, and our zone ran a combined total of 100 miles! One trio in our zone ran a marathon if they added their miles up individually. Called family, and enjoyed a good lesson with a new friend

- Holy cow, referrals went crazy this week. But none of like the actual kind that come through the Church's website. We had 3 people personally reach out to us or someone else that they were wanting to meet with us. One of these was a guy named Jasper, who we taught on Thanksgiving from above. He is super cool.

- Another guy named Scott reached out to the Stake and said he wanted to meet with missionaries again. Turns out he's been familiar with the Church for 17 years and last came to Church around 8 years ago. He's had some changes in his life that make him want to get back involved with the Church. Elder Nelson and I were out finding before Church, and we get a text 45 minutes before Church starts that he was there. So we rush over, have a fire lesson that we pulled a member into, and put him on date for baptism on January 6th! It was insane! He said church was "phenomenal" (close quote).

-Turkey Bowl! Literally played glow in the dark on a field lined with Christmas lights. Absolutely shocked no one got hurt

- Best Panda Express experience of my life (also 2nd experience of my life)

- Dropped my phone, and now the both the top and bottom half of the screen are cracked. Rip. I'm gonna by a new screen today and fix it. #CyberMonday

But yeah, seriously so many good things happening in Etown right now. We got some fun things lined up for the coming week with exchanges and a whole bunch of scheduled lessons. Good things to come!

Love you all literally so much!



Elder Creer
Kentucky Louisville Mission


Pictures:

Turkey Trot!


Disco in Bardstown (bourbon capitol of the world)


Light the World is fully in swing!

Geese

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