Email from August 22, 2022
Hi everyone!
What a crazy week. It literally flew by so fast I don’t even know haha. Full disclosure, I only have like 20 minutes to write today, so I will do my best to include everything!
Monday, we ended up having two really long lessons with two of our friends that took the whole time of teaching time.
Tuesday, we had District council and then exchanges. This time I went to Hiram area with Elder Dodge. Exchanges were super awesome and we got some good work done! We found someone, but turns out later in the follow up appointment (that was after exchanges) they just wanted to bash, haha. The story I heard is “I dabbled in the Book you gave me,” but what she talked about was actually all anti things. But it was still a good exchange nonetheless!!
Wednesday, we unexchanged and went to Burger King to do that. We had coupons so I’d say I got a good deal ?. The rest of the day, we pretty much just went finding with all of the finding options. I’m sure we met a lot of cool cool people, but honestly with this week, we met new people everyday, so I can’t remember which day was which ?.
Thursday, we had weekly planning which was good (as always). Then in the evening we got to go to the youth activities and pop in and say hi to them. That was super cool because it reminded me of the Missionaries back home coming to our activities haha.
Friday, we did some service outside, but it started pouring buckets of rain out of nowhere!! So we had to rain check that one, literally ??☔☔. The rest of the day because it was rainy we made phone calls and Facebook work.
Saturday, we did you guess it, more finding!! We also did some service for this lady who somehow got our phone number, and her grass came all the way to our knees!! It was kinda crazy, but the little tiny electric mower she had did surprisingly well. So that was an interesting experience! There was definitely poison ivy/oak, but I think we got away safe without any harm… So that was good! Saturday night we got transfer news, and it turns out I am leaving Stilesboro! I have been here for 6 months, so I was kind of expecting it, but it will be sad to say goodbyes. It will be good to have change though too ?.
Sunday, was a good day. Good Sacrament meeting. We got to sit in with the youth and had an awesome lesson about repentance and forgiveness. It was overall a good day! We tried to find someone, but the address we had took us to a hotel haha, so we didn’t know which room they were in. We ended up getting a call from them today though, so that was pretty fantastic as we have a lesson with them in like 2 minutes ?.
Spiritual thought today is about Jesus Christ. President Farias invited us to read all of the scriptures in the Topical Guide about Jesus Christ and there are like 60 sub-topics with that? But it has been so cool to see the perfect example of my Savior Jesus Christ, and I have learned so much already, and I haven’t even gotten through the Jesus Christ section!
I wish I had more time, but I don’t, so I will write next week! I hope y’all have had a great week!! Love you all! 🙂
-Elder Claussen
