Members and Meetings but also good stuff

I had a good week this week. I'm goignto just throw this email together.

On Monday we ate dinner with Sister Thursten and gave her a blessing, and then we ran into a Bible basher. They weren't a very good. 

On Tuesday we had our district meeting. I gave a training on how to work with the ward to help people come to church. Elder Mangum and I committed a lot of people to church this week, and we expected a high turn out, but unfortunately no one came. 

We were able to find several more new investigators this week, a lot of whom seem ready to embrace the gospel (they just need to come to church). We found one investigator named Leti that broke down into tears as I gave her a picture of Jesus Christ and talked about the joys of the gospel with her. She has been having a hard life. 

On Thursday we were able to team up with our Bishop and visit Veronica B, Jonathan, and the Zamora family. The Zamora family is making a lot of progress towards activity in the church, and even Taleen is making much more of an effort to get to church and to build her testimony. We have been making good head way with her. Jerry doesn't think that his ex-wife will give permission for the boys to get baptized, and so we had a spiritual lesson on miracles and faith. We are praying for the best. 

The Miller family is striving and planning to come to church as well, but they are having a hard time getting there on Sunday. We are going to try to visit them and help them in any way that we can.

On Wednesday we went to the Doctor for Elder Mangum. He had an infected mosquito bite, but he is still alive. We also had our trainer trainee meeting. I am getting very familiar with the trainer trainee meeting, so it is lots of fun. 

On Friday we were able to teach Leti for the first time, and were able to team up with Alfredo for the first time in a little while. He is working a lot of hours to save up for his mission in December. 

Saturday was basically just a regular day. We were able to teach the Hansens (except for Kim) and were able to see Sister Workman. I hadn't really seen Sister Workman since the days of Elder Perkins. She has a husband that loves bow hunting. She told us that we could definately come and teach her family.

On Sunday we taught Minerva and ate dinner with the Nichols family. 

Elder Keeley

Rhino

Zoo and stuff

We went to the Zoo this week, so my email time is very limited. We went with Elders Collins and Strommen, and then Alfredo and Hailey. Hailey is leaving on her mission in August. It was fun.

This week was very good. We had Connie come to church, but unfortunately the Zamoras and the Millers did not. Both of those families are very close to baptism, they just need to come to church.

We were able to find a few more people to teach this week, so that was good as well. I would say more if I had more time.

Elder Keeley

Selma Training ground continues

I had a great week this week. On Monday I got a haircut from Elder Howard. It was his first one ever, but it turned out pretty well. We played some games and watched a few more fireworks. We were at Alfredo's house.

On Tuesday we went to Fresno and I dropped Elder Mountford off with his new companion. I split drove to the mission office again, and then went to Fig Garden. I was with Elder Quinn and Elder Wilmoth. Here is my only picture of them. I'll get one at Trainer Traninee.

Elder Quinn abandoned us on a split. Elder Wilmoth and I tore up the fig garden area talking to random people. We went to a park and talked to a random member with her non member friend and we were able to teach a member present lesson, and were able to get a new investigator for some random missionaries.

We went to the Temple and had all of our usual training meetings. I was the most experienced trainer there. 

We got our new companion on Thursday, and then we came back to Selma and got to work. 

I am nearly out of time. We had a good lesson with the Zamoras on Sunday. We also had a good Member home lesson with the Hernandezs.

Elder Keeley

My new Companion is Elder Mangum. He is from Orem.

Transfers and Float Party

We had a new transfer call come in. As everyone must have guessed, I am staying in the promised land of Selma. Elder Mountford is heading north to Fresno, and I am training again, so I will probably be here for a full year. That's pretty awesome. Ward members joke about how they can't get rid of me. I am excited to be training again. Dinuba got doubled out, Elder Howard and Elder Lybbert are both leaving. Elder Arebalo and Elder Matienzo are coming in. I am excited for this next transfer.

We teamed up with the Bishop this week and were able to visit three different families. The Bishop is a good team up. 

On Saturday we were able to help at the ward's fourth of July party. We scooped ice cream into cups so that people could make different flavors of ice cream floats. Root beer was still the general favorite, but I liked Berry and Pineapple. Some people liked Apple. A lot of people came, but it was mostly just the active members.

There were a ton of people at church on Sunday for a baby blessing. Almost all of the seats were filled. I said the closing prayer. 

Probably the biggest thing I learned from being with Elder Mountford is to not waste time talking about things that don't really matter when there are more important things to be done. I also learned about the teaching ability that delegation has, and the importance of positive reinforcement.

Elder Keeley

Pictures 7/4/16

I might have not sent pictures 1 to everyone.

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