Jacob - July 24, 2017

Hey everybody, this week went well for me. Lots of finding and
teaching. Nothing too crazy. I can't really think about too much
things to write about. We did end up having an activity this past
friday that was a lot of fun. We had a bunch of small "minute to win
it" sort of games. There was a bean bag toss, the game where there are
golf balls held together by a string and tossed to spin around 1 of 3
bars (i forget what its called), a basketball free throw competition,
a tenis ball toss to knock down a pyramid of cups, hoolahoop contest,
bounce a penny into a cup, we got empty tissue boxes and tied them to
people and put ping pong balls inside and the people would have to
dance to get them out, a game where we got pantyhoses and put a tenis
ball through one of the legs and put the waist part on the heads of
the people and they would have to swing the tenis ball to knock down
water bottles. Lots of fun and there was a pretty good turn out. It
took all of the night to get things set up and put down, but we know
the ward had a good time and also the investigators that came,
afterwards there was some pizza and a bunch of deserts as well. Also
this past Monday we had the opportunity to take out a Joven with us to
do finding. We walked in a neighborhood that was pretty close to where
she lived. It was her first time doing something like that, but she
enjoyed it. We could tell she was pretty nervous, but she was able to
talk to a few people and share some stories so that was cool. She is
almost 17, but thinking about serving a mission so we are trying to
motivate here as well as the other jóvenes in the ward. This Sunday we
had a Less Active come to church, that was pretty cool considering
that we were the first missionaries he has seen in at least 3 years.
We met him about 2 weeks ago and he lives in a complex where 4 other
member families are. We hope he becomes active once again. Other than
that I can't recall much more about what to write about. It was just a
bunch of working this week. We don't have a ton of people with
potential, but we are talking with lots of people and inviting
everyone to learn more, people just seem to say no more than yes, but
we don't let it get to us. We just have the hope that the next person
will say yes. We've met a few cool people this week thanks to just
keeping up on talking with everyone on the streets and in the
complexes. But that's my week for this week. I love you all and hope
you each have a great week!

Elder Baer