I'm gonna make this place your home 3-10-2025

Pdayyy Mondayyyy! We played basketball and it got intense and then we ate bdubs. Average P-day activities. Thay evening for pross time it felt like we rode our bikes forever all around town haha. We stopped by some people and one of which was a apathetic 9 year old named Camden who forgot to get baptized so now we missionaries get to teach and baptize him haha. It's cool though because his family loves sports and they were down to play with us once it gets warmer. Tuesday was hard not gonna lie I had panda 3 days in a row as well as Buffalo wild winds the day previously my stomach hated me. That day was district council and to be honest I had no idea what to do a training on so that morning I woke up and hit a 3 hour personal study and it came to me. I will say this though being in the new zone has been hard for me kind of a culture shock to be honest but I'll adjust. I had a training on beating apathy and baptizing 100s and it went so well I thank God everyday. When we got back for lunch I was so exhausted for no reason it was hard to get up and bike 30 minutes to discover new finding areas but God rewarded us with a Chinese refferal my first one it was awesome! We also had a good member meal and then a lesson with a friend who's been taught for a long time and we just applied the training and beat apathy and helped our friend understand baptism and why he needs it and ge accepted a date for the 23rd of March. This is a huge miracle!! We also made 4 friends again which is insane for this area so they say. God is so good and you gotta love the grind. The zoneleaders and I had a good chat about the zone culture and vision and talked about zone accountabilities and district councils and delegating responsibility to the district leaders and pushing baptism and it was great I loved it. Wednesday was intense so much opposition in the morning it was so crazy. My companion actually low-key has been depressed and the hard part is he is so funny and he copes by making Jokes and I can't stop laughing it's not ok. We had President interviews as well but they got canceled because of rain so we had to do them over zoom call and it was nice to have them haha. I have had culture shock going from the city my whole mission to the suburbs that havnt baptized in over a year and a half but we got two lined up for this month. He followed up on my last interview and asked if I was able to learn to give some weight to the Lord and he said the Lord will just keep giving me more responsibility throughout my life and it's going to get heavier and heavier quickly. He told me that he felt that God needed my in this companionship and this district that they need me, especially my companion because he has been depressed. He also said he put me in this area because it needs work haha that it does. After interviews my comp and I went and knocked doors like crazy. We actually found some cool people but it's interesting seeing how people react in the burbs vrs the city when you talk to them. One dude we invited to church and he said no then he picked up his dog he was walking and ran away from us for like 30 seconds straight Bro forgot we had bikes like where you going man. White people are so funny. I have a vision of this area and I am excited. Thursday we had a workshop training from some senior missionaries that was great! It was an interesting day because we had a long workshop and it was kind of a far drive so we ended up doing that and then going to a member meal with the most amazing family ever holy cow. The husband is Cia and they are such good missionaries too. They use to live in turkey before missionaries were proseltiting there so they did all of the teaching and baptizing it's crazy. They then took us to youth night and it was so fun we played some games and got in with the youth. Overall it was one of those days we didn't have any finding or teaching time but it was great. Friday was awesome. We had service in the morning which was really boring actually we just stood around at a restore building, but after that we went to Chipotle and had a fire companion study. We went over our vision for the area and how we are going to find people to teach in the suburbs. We have a part of our area that is kind of a far bike ride but hasn't been knocked up much so our goals have been to go down to that area every day and get in a members home everyday. We have been doing that and it has been such a blessing. We went down and knocked straight and found so many cool people we even found a family👀God is so good. This past week I felt out of it but I am so back. We got into a members home that night too and later on our bikeride home we ran into one of our 18 year old youth and they said that the scripture class we were talking about with another youth back on Sunday is happening and like 14 people are gonna be there and it's so hype. We are cooking God is so Good! I struggled being in this area not being use to the city but the lord has been able to work in a differnt way and magnify my efforts. Saturday was unuiqe haha we went out with one of our youth for 3 lessons and all three fell through it was kind of lame but we got wawas shakes afterwards! He gave us a scoop of all the ward members and gave us w insight. We then ended up visiting by some friend to confirm for church and some less actives and part members and no one was answering the door. We did end up stopping by like 3 family's and a less active and got to know them and their missionary efforts and it's crazy I feel as if I know most of the ward and it's been just over a week. The member grind is crazy. I am so satisfied with it though and the youth are on fire in this ward. I am excited to see the fruits of it. We ended up biking down south of our area again for some finding from like 7-9pm and weren't able to find anyone but the work was hard. We did confirm a family to church and that was a blessing. For a couple days I felt so burnt out from the last two transfers and everything else with exchanges I felt down but as I recommitment myself to Christ daily I received strength and Joy to bike harder, work harder, and be more intentional with everything. Something my mission president told my current companion in his interview is that "Elder Williams is on another Gear of working hard" and I was in awe that he though of me as that but felt recently I had slacked a little bit from how I usually get down but through Christ I was able to kick it back in gear and what a blessing it has been. Sunday was absolutely amazing. We had a family we are teaching get sick and wasn't able to come to church but I had peace in Christ knowing it was OK and I didn't beat myself up about it like I use to. We went to preist quarm and it was so amazing I love the youth in this ward. We followed up with the Bible class thing we commissioned a youth to startup and she's Like yup, my house at 7 and I was so hyped for it. We had a member meal and then went to it and had a lesson and it was one of the most powerful lessons iv had the youth are so amazing. The coolest part is they want to help us out and be missionaries and invite friends to these Bible classes and have then consistently so we can teach their friends. It's crazy I love it. I am in awe that this was put together within a week of being in this area. We figured it out and I am so happy. My comp is doing great now and I love him. I feel at home in this town it's so weird haha. That night my comp shared a quote with me that he said fits my description and how it healed ny soul seeing that somone was able to get me. Especially with my last comp all those ordeals haha. This is what it said.... We shouldnt dim our own light in an attempt to be more humble. Shying away from opportunities to be a light, in an attempt to "be humble." Is wrong "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ― Marianne Williamson This has been a struggle my whole mission and I absolutely love my companion he shared this with me and he said that I have a bright light and that I shine and sometimes at first people may dislike me for it or be intimidated by it but to just keep being me. He said it can be intimidating seeing how much that I care and do things for other people and in turn my light shines but that I shouldn't dim it. I felt a weight lift off of me when he said that because I felt it. He said that he feels like I have a unique gift of seeing others needs and lifting them up and helping them but it can be intimidating sometimes being loved and being helped. God wants us to love ourselves and let our light so shine, not put it under a bushel. He wants us to lift and love others. He loves us and I love all of you. Send me an email sometime and "Stay Sweet"-Elder Williams