Monday!
So
for some reason as of late my p-days have been super busy!! Like I don't even know why they get so busy. I do everything I've always been doing only
now it seems like I hardly have anytime. It's confusing... anyway, so we did our shopping
and whatnot and got the things that we needed. Then we played games!! Normal p-day type stuff. After that we had a lesson buuuuuut it got
cancelled like 10 minutes before hand. Oh
well such is the life of a missionary and there isn't much we can do about it.
We tried contacting some people and we weren't able to talk to many people but no
worries!!
Tuesday!
Tuesday!
So
today we woke up and did our thing, then we went to ZLC (which is that meeting
where I can't be there so I just practice my basketball skills). Might I just say that I've played more
basketball on my mission than in my whole life combined, and as a result I've become
quite the "baller" as the kids say 😂 anyway, so that was fun. Then after the meeting we went to Dairy Queen
and we talked with a few people there. There was actually this one lady who we
went up and talked to and she told us about how she doesn't have anywhere to
stay or anything and she was just super stressed and sad. So we shared some scriptures and our testimony
on keeping the commandments and that God blesses us for that. So I hope that she was able to feel something
and that she goes to church like she said she would. After that we started our exchanges with the
zone leaders! So Elder Porter and I got together
and shot over to their area while they were in ours. It was kind of funny but I forgot my iPad in
the other car so I didn't have it with me for like the whole day almost and it
was actually kind of nice I'm not going to lie 😅.
It was super neat just being able to teach out
of the Book of Mormon exclusively because that's all I had, that and my testimony.
So that's what I relied on! It was a really good day. We had a lesson with one of their investigators
who Satan is working on pretty hard so we were able to answer a lot of her
questions on different things. We had a
few lessons fall through but we made up for it by following the spirit and
looking for those people who were sent by God. Like we were in the area for this lady they
had contacted awhile back and so we decided to stop by. Well she didn't answer but we didn't feel like
leaving right then was a great idea, so we went and started knocking on doors
until we felt spiritually satisfied. Well
we knocked a few doors with no answer, but then we knock on this one door… I've
been able to find out that on my mission is I can talk to random people pretty
easily about just about anything, but transitioning to the gospel is a bit
tougher. So I'm still learning how to do that.
Anyway, so we knock on his door and he was a bit standoffish at first
but I noticed he was playing a video game that I had played a little bit of in
the "before time". Anyway so I
pointed it out and started to talk to him about that then he really started talking
to us and opening up to us and he started talking about Dragon Ball Z and I was
just sitting there like, "come on man you're making this too easy for me 😂". So we talked about that for a while then after
Elder Porter was able to bring up the gospel and talk about missionaries and
what we do and so we were able to talk to him a little bit about that and he
seemed pretty open to meeting with the missionaries so that was a huge miracle!
It was a really awesome exchange and it
was really cool to meet a lot of people from the Overlook area. I learned a lot and I learned how to better
myself as a missionary. So after a few
more people we headed back to the apartment and we got there and talked to their
ward mission leader (who is easily one of the coolest guys ever btw) and he
gave us some really good advice for after the mission and finding and choosing
a career that fits us. Then he told us a
few stories from when he was a police officer. It was super cool talking to him :) then we
went to bed and that was it.
Wednesday!!
Wednesday!!
Alright
so today started out with games and we created a variation of four square. Instead of four squares we use six. So we played six square and man can that game
get intense!! It was super fun though!! After that Elder Porter and I went to their
apartment to get ready for district meeting and do our studies. It was pretty cool because we got ready and
all that and spent like an hour just talking about life and missionary work and
how we can both improve as missionaries. He's a way solid missionary. He's really good at something I struggle with and
that's understanding that there are certain times and places to be funny and
have fun but also times to work. So I
was able to receive instruction as to how I can do better at that. But yeah so we talked for a while and I did my
studies and I had a really great study session!! It was super awesome!!! I was reading in Alma chapter 11 and Zeezrom
is trying to get Amulek deny the gospel. So he tries bribing him with a ton of money. Like it was a lot of money from what I
understood and Zeezrom is like, "hey Amulek, do you see all this silver?? It's a lot right?? Well I'll tell you what, if you deny that
there's a God then all this is yours." Well Amulek is a righteous guy and he sees
right through Zeezrom and his cunning. So this is Amuleks response to Zeezrom and
it's found in chapter 11 verse 23:
"O thou child of hell,
why tempt ye me? Knowest thou that the righteous yieldeth to no such
temptations?"
First
thing I like about this is he calls him a child 😂 like he's basically saying
this is childish to think that silver and riches is going to get me to deny
God. Then my favorite part of Amuleks
response is the fact that he says that the righteous won't yield to temptations
like that. I read that and I was like
wow, he threw it all back into Zeezrom’s face and said I don't want your money
because I know that there is a God and that because I'm righteous he will bless
me. Then a little bit later on in the chapter
he calls out Zeezrom saying that he wasn't even going to give him the money if
he had denied the existence of a God. It's
just an awesome chapter.
After
our studies Elder Porter and I got ready to leave for district meeting. See there was one fatal error in our planning...
we thought that the meeting was at 10:30... well we were kind of wrong... 😅 it actually was at 10. So at about 10:20 we got a call from the sisters
asking where the heck we were and it was at that moment we realized that we
screwed up 😅 oh well though right?!? You live and you learn and now I know that district
meeting is at 10 not 10:30 😅. So we had district meeting and that was all
good and fun. Then afterward we went to
Arby's for lunch and man I haven't been to that place since I was in Utah!! Like I think the last time I was there was in
high school when we went for lunch 😂 so that was a blast from the past. After that we switched back and went to the
doctors for Elder Blum’s ear because it has been bugging him for the past
little bit and he was cleared to go to the doctors to get it checked out. So we were there for quite a while and then after
that we went to pick up his prescription and because of the insurance
missionaries have it takes like 10X as long so we were stuck there for a while
as well. Once it was done it was time
for dinner. So we went to dinner and finished
out our day!! It's been a pretty
eventful day!!
Thursday!
Thursday!
Today
was pretty good. It was a bit of a
slower day but it was really cool because later in the day we had splits and I
was able to go and help the guy I went with, with some home-teaching. So we went to this older ladies house and
shared a message with her. She was super nice and loved the company :) it did my heart good to be able to go and brighten
up her day :) After that my split’s companion and I went to try a less active we
had talked to awhile back but he didn't answer which was a bummer. But it was pretty close to 8 which was when we
decided we would be back at, so went back and waited for the other two in the
parking lot and talked for a while about the area and the ward. Then we started talking about missions and he
served in Saõ Paulo (shout out to you Tav) but I'm pretty sure I spelled it
right. I know that there is one of those
squiggly things somewhere in it so I just guessed. But he told me a few stories which were really
cool and I was actually able to tell some of my own!! :D How nuts is that!?! I can tell mission
stories!! Anyway it was super cool. I love splits because I'm able to get to know
the members of the ward better and so that's pretty nice to be able to form
those relationships.
Friday!
Friday!
Alright
so this morning I woke up and it was like 5:50 and I was thinking, "why
the crap are you up so early elder!! We still have like a half hour!!!" Then I got a text from the sisters at about
6:15 asking where we were and I was like why are the sisters asking where we
are this early in the morning?? Then it
hit me... today is Friday... we have games every Wednesday and Friday morning...
CRAP!!! So I jumped out of bed and threw
on all my clothes and was out the door because we were late!! So that was pretty funny 😂 anyway so we did that and it
was pretty fun. Then we got a call at
like 11 from the other zone leaders asking us if we could pick them up at about
noon because their car was getting its windshield replaced. So we were like yeah sure we can do that. Anyway, so we're getting ready to do that when
we get another call at pretty close to noon from them saying that there was a mix-up
and their windshield was sent to Billings. So they were like let's just go to lunch. So we went and got some pizza and took it back
to their place and ate pizza for lunch. Then we started talking and we started talking
about “The Great Falls”. Like the actual
water fall and we were like we are only going to be in Great Falls like one
time in our lives so we need to see The Great Falls. Plus we both didn't have anything planned for
the next little bit so we drove out the actual Great Falls!! And well I didn't realize but waterfalls are only
really good during certain seasons... winter is not one of those seasons... so
we got there and it was alright but kind of a disappointment... then Elder Potter
and I looked at some rocks and decided to climb this rock hill and get a
picture of The Great Falls from the top of it and that was pretty cool.
But what we didn't realize is that the hill we
climbed was littered full of these super sharp rocks and super loose dirt so
Elder Potter starts heading back down and he just slides for like 10 feet. I thought he was going to die or something. It looked like he was going to start falling
like in the movie Hot Rod when he falls down the hill for like 10 minutes. But he didn't thank goodness!! He did rip his
pants though... so that was a bummer. But
it's all good because we got some pretty good pictures.
Anyway so after that we
went back down and headed back home and we went to our dinner appointment and
had dinner on base. It was awesome and
we had breakfast for dinner!!! 😍🤤 it was soooooo good!! I love breakfast for dinner. Then afterward we tried visiting some less
active members and former investigators.
Saturday!
Saturday!
Well
today was a pretty mello day 😅 not much going on. What happened was we just did a lot of finding
then we had dinner at a member’s house and it was way funny because the kids
were like naming off every transformer ever and I was like... woah... it was
pretty funny 😂 then afterward we tried contacting some more
people but it didn't turn out. After doing
that for a few hours and being told, "I'm not interested" a bunch, we
decided to head on home. So that was a
fun time :)
Sunday!
Sunday!
So
we started off the day doing the usual stuff and then we got a call from our
zone leaders asking if we would be able to go to the hospital in town and give
a lady a blessing in there. So we said we
would after we got done with church. We
went to church and we were in charge of teaching the gospel principles class
and I think it went pretty well. At
least I hope it was good 😅. Then we went into our priesthood meeting and
talked about the word of wisdom and the plan of salvation. It was super cool to be able to see the ties
between the two from a different perspective. After that, church ended and we had ward
council... fuuuuun stuff 😅 that lasted quite a while but it's all good!! Sacrifices for the work to progress!! After we hurried home, changed out of our
suits and into some clothes that can be washed easier because that's what we do
😅
and then we ate some lunch really quick and hurried over to the hospital to
give the lady a blessing. We got there
and it was super cool to meet her. We
gave her the blessing and we talked a little bit after and we told her that we
hope she gets better and she said, "I will now thanks to you." It was so awesome to see her faith in the blessing
from the Lord. After that we went over
to our dinner and she gave us a pizza so we had pizza for dinner. Then we went out and did some more finding
hoping that more people would be around on Sunday. Some of them were and some weren't, which was
alright😅. After that we went and did our laundry and
that's been my week!! A lot of really cool
experiences and blessings that I've been able to see this week and I've been
able to meet a lot of super cool people :)
I
love it out here a lot and I love my mission and I'm excited to see my growth
over the next two years :) I love you all and I'll catch ya next week!! :)
Love,
Elder Zeller
2425 6th Ave. S Great Falls MT 59405
Love,
Elder Zeller
2425 6th Ave. S Great Falls MT 59405
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