My week in Santa Maria:
Monday: Today was super sad. But fun at the same time haha. So we got haircuts from sister Pinneo and then we had lunch and after that we played basketball from 12-5pm. After that we stopped by the Pinneo's again so I could say goodbye to the whole family. I am really bummed to go, I can't believe that I'm the one leaving to be honest. We also saw Sister Scheu as well. I really dislike saying goodbye, it's the worst ever. Then we saw Dean and split home so I could finish packing. Goodbye Moorpark!
Tuesday: Transfer Tuesday! Well we got to the transfer train at around 7:30am and I left! I finally arrived and met my new companion, Elder Reichman, he is super cool! We had an awesome day, did a little grocery shopping and unpacked a little. Then we set out to dinner with the McCord's. Their grandson, Seth, who is 9 was recently baptized which is super cool. We had spaghetti and I made a mess haha, I still have a ton more white shirts. But what made it cool was that there was a non member there and when we gave our spiritual thought which was on the spirit, the scripture was Galatians 5:22-23, this man, Anthony, started to cry. What we told him tonight was what he was looking for. So we gave him a Book of Mormon and set up a return appointment. It was so cool! After dinner we went around and saw some of the members in the ward here. Honestly I'm super excited to serve here! To end the night we saw Barb and Dan. They are super cool, pretty real. It was a good first day in Santa Maria!
Wednesday: Day 2! Today was awesome! We started with some service for one of our investigators named Genie! She lives out on this ranch a ways away and we helped her with some wood splitting, wood piling, chicken coop moving and other stuff! She fed us some deep fried tacos for lunch and they were awesome!! And then we had District leader council with all the missionary leadership in our zone. And had some super good ideas for this transfer and how we can best work! So this is my companions last transfer before he goes home so he has to do MyPlan, which is just a way the church helps returning missionaries prepare to be home! Then we had a really early dinner at Panda Express. I got to meet some more members, the Cornwells and all the youth at mutual! I'm ready to get working here in this area! Our night ended with some more ward review and investigator backgrounds between me and my companion! We are gonna see miracles this transfer for sure!
Thursday: Today was fantastic! We started the day by going to see a man named Ernie, we were going to teach him the Plan of Salvation but he was busy power washing his motor home so we rescheduled for next Tuesday. Then we did a little weekly planning before we went up to Nipomo for lunch with the Zone Leaders. It was about a 30 minute drive from Santa Maria to Nipomo so I got a little cat nap. After lunch we tried to go see Anthony and follow up with him on his reading and teach him. He couldn't meet however due to being busy working. So we did a bit more weekly planning and some companionship study as well. We then had dinner with the Speakers! It was pretty good, we heard stories of when they were both on their missions and the experiences they've had. We decided to go for a little walk after that from about 6:30-8pm around our area trying to contact people. At the end of the night we were supposed to meet with some members so I could introduce myself but as soon as we got to their house we noticed that their next door neighbors were outside working on one guy's truck. We talked with them for about an hour on the subject of who God is and their belief in Him. We ended up giving one of them a Book of Mormon, his name is Adam and the other ones name is Brian. It was pretty cool though because we were able to testify of the Book of Mormon!
Friday: Today was awesome! We had district meeting today which was centered around getting to know one another better which was pretty fun. We did a question activity. After district activity we finished up some weekly planning and had dinner with the Cornwells! Turns out their son is the next professional football player from Santa Maria! Even if he is just 10 haha. But their family is super cool! After dinner we decided to go help our friend Genie move a huge shelf. We also took some pretty cool companion pictures. Soon thereafter we did a lot of walking and talking to people. We handed out 2 copies of the Book of Mormon and set up 2 return appointments for next week! Super cool miracles because we weren't even planning on walking in the street we met both of them on. Their names are Dariel and Greg. They are both pretty darn cool. I'm most excited about Dariel because he was willing to give up his free time on his only day off to set up an appointment. It was successful overall!!
Saturday: Unfortunately today was another sick day in the apartment for me. Hopefully I'll get better for tomorrow.
Sunday: First Sunday in Santa Maria! The ward is awesome! We had two super good talks on Forgiveness and Putting God before ourselves. The entire service was awesome. We had dinner with the Sloan's and had a few appointments afterwards. Both appointments fell through so we walked around and tried talking to people. Our night was finished by meeting with Barb and Dan! It was a good first week here.
- Elder Smith
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