Hello! I hope everyone has had a great week! My week has been awesome! Arlington is truly a blessed place. Everyone actually listens to what we have to say down here! We have met a lot of people and have had such awesome experiences this week!
First off, apparently Elder Blanchard is the zone leader and I had no idea until I met him last Wednesday. So I'm a zone leader buddy! Apart of being zone leader buddy is we go on a lot of trade offs with a lot of other companionships because elder Blanchard has to go with every district leader in the zone and also one of the assistants to the president. So this week we went on trade offs with the assistants to the Presdient and I went with elder Stuart who is my grandpa on the mission! Just in case you don't know what I mean by grandpa on my mission, whoever trains you is your dad so Elder Kunde is my dad because he trained me and Elder Stuart trained Elder Kunde so he's his dad, therefore Elder Stuart is my grandpa. Elder Stuart is a fantastic missionary too! He has been a trainer, a district leader, a zone leader and now he's an assisstant to the president and he's only been out about 18 months! I learned so much from him on my trade off with him! We had such a good time and he is seriuosly the most energetic guy I've ever met! He really showed me how to get to know people we meet on the streets before we teach them or ask to teach them. It really helps them to feel more comfortable with us and more willing to listen to what we have to say because they feel almost like we are friends at the point.
Also we have a few progressing investigators who are awesome! One of them is Cierra and she is progressing really well. Her boyfriend is a member, his name is Damian, and we met with him to teach her and we were able to set up a baptism date for her on Sunday the 31st! She said that date would be easiest for her because she lives far from the church so doing it after church would be best. Plus that would be so cool getting baptised on New Year's Eve! So please keep her in your prayers so that all will go well and she can stay focused on the path to baptism. Also there is another girl named Carrie who also said she would get baptised! We don't have a date but she seems really interested and loves reading the Book of Mormon. Also literally right after we taught her this guy drove by and stopped and rolled his window down. He said his name was John and he was meeting with missionaries with his girlfriend and they told him to start meeting with us because we were in his area where he lived. Then he said he wants to be baptised but he has to give up smoking so we'll work with him on that. It was super awesome though to literally have two people commit to baptism in a span of 5 minutes. Arlington is where it's at!
Also there is this super awesome guy down here named Calvin! I know he has the same name as me! He has some sort of special needs but he is black and loves missionaries and so he took me and Elder Blanchard to this chinese buffet and they had squid there. It was literally a small squid, not just tentacles or anything but the whole thing! And Calvin was like, "Rookies eat squid" and so I had to eat the squid! It was super nasty looking and it felt like I was chewing on a rubber squid toy but it actually didn't taste too bad. I probably wouldn't eat it again but if I were forced then maybe. But Calvin is so funny! He says I look like the joker from the show Gotham so he always calls me joker. He also has like thousands of friends on Facebook and knows pretty much all of the missionaries in the mission! He is something else! Look him up on Facebook though his name is Calvin Sonnirea. He always goes up to people and gets in there face and either starts speaking gibberish or says, "Did you miss this face?" and then he makes a funny face. He is so awesome!
There was also a really cool concert at our church called Genesis. It's where African American Mormons do a cool music concert with soulful music like in a Baptist church. It was super cool! The missionaries sang joy to the world and Infant Holy, Infant Loly. After that there were people from other churches around the area that had there own songs and it was so awesome! At some points everyone was clapping to the rhythm of the song and standing up and shouting halleluia! It was so much fun! We all were really getting into it! There was a guy who brough a keyboard and was going crazy on it! He was amazing! It was honestly one of the best times I've had on my mission!
So far everything has been amazing in Arlington! I am seriously having the best time here and am seeing many blessings already and I know there are many many more to come. The members are super awesome even though I havn't quite met all of them but so far they are amazing! I love it here!
I love y'all! I hope all is going great! Y'all are always in my prayers! Keep on keepin' on!
First off, apparently Elder Blanchard is the zone leader and I had no idea until I met him last Wednesday. So I'm a zone leader buddy! Apart of being zone leader buddy is we go on a lot of trade offs with a lot of other companionships because elder Blanchard has to go with every district leader in the zone and also one of the assistants to the president. So this week we went on trade offs with the assistants to the Presdient and I went with elder Stuart who is my grandpa on the mission! Just in case you don't know what I mean by grandpa on my mission, whoever trains you is your dad so Elder Kunde is my dad because he trained me and Elder Stuart trained Elder Kunde so he's his dad, therefore Elder Stuart is my grandpa. Elder Stuart is a fantastic missionary too! He has been a trainer, a district leader, a zone leader and now he's an assisstant to the president and he's only been out about 18 months! I learned so much from him on my trade off with him! We had such a good time and he is seriuosly the most energetic guy I've ever met! He really showed me how to get to know people we meet on the streets before we teach them or ask to teach them. It really helps them to feel more comfortable with us and more willing to listen to what we have to say because they feel almost like we are friends at the point.
Also we have a few progressing investigators who are awesome! One of them is Cierra and she is progressing really well. Her boyfriend is a member, his name is Damian, and we met with him to teach her and we were able to set up a baptism date for her on Sunday the 31st! She said that date would be easiest for her because she lives far from the church so doing it after church would be best. Plus that would be so cool getting baptised on New Year's Eve! So please keep her in your prayers so that all will go well and she can stay focused on the path to baptism. Also there is another girl named Carrie who also said she would get baptised! We don't have a date but she seems really interested and loves reading the Book of Mormon. Also literally right after we taught her this guy drove by and stopped and rolled his window down. He said his name was John and he was meeting with missionaries with his girlfriend and they told him to start meeting with us because we were in his area where he lived. Then he said he wants to be baptised but he has to give up smoking so we'll work with him on that. It was super awesome though to literally have two people commit to baptism in a span of 5 minutes. Arlington is where it's at!
Also there is this super awesome guy down here named Calvin! I know he has the same name as me! He has some sort of special needs but he is black and loves missionaries and so he took me and Elder Blanchard to this chinese buffet and they had squid there. It was literally a small squid, not just tentacles or anything but the whole thing! And Calvin was like, "Rookies eat squid" and so I had to eat the squid! It was super nasty looking and it felt like I was chewing on a rubber squid toy but it actually didn't taste too bad. I probably wouldn't eat it again but if I were forced then maybe. But Calvin is so funny! He says I look like the joker from the show Gotham so he always calls me joker. He also has like thousands of friends on Facebook and knows pretty much all of the missionaries in the mission! He is something else! Look him up on Facebook though his name is Calvin Sonnirea. He always goes up to people and gets in there face and either starts speaking gibberish or says, "Did you miss this face?" and then he makes a funny face. He is so awesome!
There was also a really cool concert at our church called Genesis. It's where African American Mormons do a cool music concert with soulful music like in a Baptist church. It was super cool! The missionaries sang joy to the world and Infant Holy, Infant Loly. After that there were people from other churches around the area that had there own songs and it was so awesome! At some points everyone was clapping to the rhythm of the song and standing up and shouting halleluia! It was so much fun! We all were really getting into it! There was a guy who brough a keyboard and was going crazy on it! He was amazing! It was honestly one of the best times I've had on my mission!
So far everything has been amazing in Arlington! I am seriously having the best time here and am seeing many blessings already and I know there are many many more to come. The members are super awesome even though I havn't quite met all of them but so far they are amazing! I love it here!
I love y'all! I hope all is going great! Y'all are always in my prayers! Keep on keepin' on!
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