March 6, 2018

 (this is the backyard of someone we taught)

Family,

Tuesday was a really good day! We had our district meetings which were really good. We took the first 20 minutes and talked to the zone about how things are going and set some new goals to improve. The past 2 weeks have been really tough as a zone. In the past 2 weeks we have only found 1 new investigator as a zone. There are 6 companionship. Normally we find around 5 as a zone each week. But we set some good goals to improve. We also started teaching (K) she is 9 years old.  Her family are members and they are a super awesome family!! She has been wanting to get baptized for a long time and we are now beginning to teach her so we are super excited!!

Wednesday I was on an exchange.
Thursday was a lot of time in the apartment. We had our normal daily studies then we had our weekly planning which is 3 hours and then on top of that we had 2 hours of entering information from the area book into our phones. So we were in most of the day. 
Friday was also a very busy day with mission leadership council or "MLC" that takes up most the day. We didn't get back until 6:00. It was good though. 

Saturday was wide open though. We had nothing planned so we did a lot of finding through formers and potentials. It's also weird now being on Facebook and having things to do on there. We can now teach people who don't even live within our area or even the mission. I was able to contact a recent convert. I had to see if we could start teaching her brother because she had mentioned in the past that he was beginning to be interested! So it's been pretty cool!

Sunday is always good. It's usually a pretty busy day with church and then a lot of meetings but it's nice to have a full day. We got a call from a member in Wyoming who has a daughter and a grandson who live here in our area who are interested in the gospel so that was exciting. We are going to start teaching them next Monday. It was also transfer calls tonight. I thought I was going to get transferred because I have been in each of my areas for 3 transfers and I just finished my 3rd transfer here... but nope I'm staying another one! I will also being staying another one with Elder Delp. So it will be the longest I've ever been in an area and also the longest I've been with a companion. But I'm excited because we should have some of our investigators getting baptized this transfer!!

Monday was pretty good for it being a Monday. It wasn't our pday with it being transfers this week so our day was pretty open. We did a lot of finding and ended up tracting a street. And we are glad we did and we are done with it also because the people weren't to interested. ha ha It was pretty interesting.

We went to a former investigators home that was just wild. We read the information about him. It said something along the lines of his house is sketch and he's always in need of service. So we went... His house was SKETCH... it was actually a massive home but it didn't look quite complete on the outside. We knocked on the door and some man in his 50's came to the door and said, "the door was open - just come in" so of course we go in. The house was jam packed of everything you could possibly think of and the house was just plywood. It wasn't finished. You could see the trusses, the wires running through the walls and there was no installation. It wasn't just like this guy is building a home and it's not finished yet but this house is probably over 15 years old so things are getting old. It was pretty wild. He was a crazy nice guy though.

That was about our week. Nothing else to terribly exciting happened. I'm looking forward to this next transfer and to hopefully have some baptisms go through!! Thank you all for your love and support!! I love you all!!

also so you know.

pday will be Tuesday the 13th next week as well cause we have a General Authority, Elder Costa coming on Monday.

Preach My Gospel just got a new chapter to it that will be related to phone use but it applies to a lot of things and how the things we learn here will bless us in our lives when we go home!

Gotta go have a good week. I love you all!!
Elder Ethan Wayne Stucki