This week was a whole lotta nothing. We have no progressing investigators, so we pretty much tried to contact all of our potential investigators every day. Because we're on bikes it takes a good portion of time to get around and we probably end up biking between 8-10 miles a day. 12 on good days, or bad..... depends on how you look at it. and most of it is uphill, because as i have learned, there isnt a flat stretch of ground anywhere in Virginia and our apartment is literally on the highest point of ground for miles. so coming home every day is quite the chore. There are no mountains also, at least by Utah standards. just rolling hills. imma have huge quads when i come home
Anyway so we pretty much knocked doors and rode our bikes, we found one man named John and had an awesome discussion with him on his doorstep about the afterlife and such. and we gave him a Plan of salvation pamphlet and set a return appointment. when we went back we were stoked, one because it was something to actually do, and 2 because he had a ton of notes and marked up the pamphlet. most of his questions dealt with the restoration so we ended up teaching that instead of the PloS and he seemed really wary, we tried to set another appointment at the end and he said he'd call us instead. which pretty much is the polite way of saying i dont wanna talk anymore. its been about 5 days since then and we havent heard back. soooooo
With no one to study for I've just been reading the Book of Mormon every morning and it's been awesome, my personal testimony of its truthfulness has really increased as well as my understanding of it. One thing I've been doing is reading along with the institute manuals open on gospel library so I can reference things when i don't understand something and it has been awesome.
thursday was zone conference, the highlight of the week! our mission is now authorized to use facebook! so everyone add me as a friend! im just under Kayden McArthur on there. and if you know anyone living in charolettsville who could use the gospel......... set me up so we actually have someone to teach haha..... so the topic of zone conference was using facebook to further the work, i still dont really know what to do with it(facebook) yet, but were working on it.
Sunday we tried to go tracting because we have nothing else to do, but it turns out there was a huge benefit/charity concert at UVA because of the events of August 12th (the riots) so Justin Timberlake, Ariana Grande, Coldplay, and Dave Matthews band are performing, plus some other famous people I can't remember, we biked down past the stadium and literally a BILLION people were flocking to the stadium becuase it is a FREE concert. RIP to us, what a time to be a missionary. we were too early to hear/see anything cool, but fun to think all these famous people are in the same town as me right now lol. And also UVA beat Boise State so go Cavaliers to all the Bronco haters out there. Jk I don't really know anything about college football rn so that could be a good or bad thing
So thats pretty much it...... very exciting I know, but hey no one said it'd be easy. Also shout out to Sarah McArthur for the dope postcard, thanks! but yep I'm still alive and well kicking around in Charolettsville, I know the lord and the spirit will lead us to those who they have prepared, it just takes time.
Love you all!
Elder McArthur
Sugar Hollow Hike
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