Hey everyone! Things are definitely going here in Ohio! Thank you all for your love and support! I ate a banana for the first time since I was little. I am still not a fan. But it was offered to us, so I took it and ate it. I have been commissioned to make some origami for one of the primary teachers. That is going to be fun!
Here's a quick run down of the week:
Monday was by far my favorite experience that I've had out here. We went down to Hocking Hills in Lancaster for our district activity. We spent pretty much our entire day there just messing around and having fun with our district. After that we stayed with the Lancaster Elders for the night for training visits on Tuesday. It was really awesome going on a hike here, and it was a huge blessing that the weather permitted it!
Tuesday we had our training visits in Lancaster. I got to go with our District Leader Elder Wiggins. He is an absolute stud! We met with a couple members and tried to set up some return appointments with our investigators. Near the end of the day we decided to go knock for a little bit. As we were going around we just started talking about how well we work together with everything. He told me that he feels so invigorated with me when we tract. Normally he would just go knocking and he never really cared too much for it, but with me it was just so much better. I felt the same exact way! We both hope that we could possibly be companions in the future. I would love being with Elder Wiggins, that would be an amazing transfer!
Wednesday was a very slow day overall. We had our District Council in the morning and tried to figure out something to do in the afternoon. We ended up just meeting with a couple members and did some planning for our trip the next day.
Thursday was nonstop good times with our Circleville trip. Opioid central is always a hoot n' a holler! We got to meet with tons of members down there and a couple investigators. At the end of the day we met with a less active member and moved some of his furniture downstairs to help him get ready for moving out.
Friday was a nice snow day filled with service. We got about 3-4 inches of snow, so naturally there was a snow day for the schools. We took advantage of the snow and decided to go shovel peoples driveways for a couple hours. We hope that our service was able to brighten some people's day! After that we had our weekly planning and went tracting for a couple hours. Overall it was a cold and busy day.
Saturday went by incredibly slow for the most part. We helped clean the church in the morning which went by pretty fast. The rest of the day we were planning on meeting with a member at the end of the day and we would just knock doors for an hour or 2. After that we had a little miracle which will be found at the bottom of the email.
Sunday was absolutely amazing as always! Sacrament was filled with wonderful talks and amazing testimonies. Me and Elder Neddo got to teach a restoration lesson to the young women for the second hour which went really good. After church we visited with as many members as we could in the area and had very spiritual and powerful lessons on the atonement and restoration. Sundays are always the best day out on a mission!
Funny moment of the week:
When we were in Circleville we were meeting with one of my favorite members. He is such an interesting guy! We were over meeting with him just having a normal conversation then he looks like he's just had some major epiphany in his mind. He then looks at us and says, "well are you boys gonna share a message?" We said of course and shared a message about the atonement with him and he loved it. Then he said, "That was awesome! Now give me another message!" So we laughed and gave him another one. He just kept asking us to give him message after message and we even skipped lunch that day to give him several messages. Eventually we did leave to make our next appointment. That guy is such a clown sometimes!
Miracle of the week:
On Saturday we were getting done knocking in the afternoon and we were about to head over to a family's house to meet with them, but right before we go to head over they texted us and cancelled on us. We both got worried because we didn't know what else to do and we did not want to knock for 2 more hours. We decided to pray about what we should do and we asked Heavenly Father to guide us on where we need to go. After the prayer we felt prompted to go meet with another family and a recent convert. We head over to the family and they start talking to us. We started talking about missionary work and the dad started talking to us about his mission experience and basically told us what we needed to hear about finding people. We were both feeling just unsuccessful because we put so much time into finding this past week with no success. But he told us that as long as we do our part and serve the Lord, we will be blessed. I know that he was truly inspired to tell us what he did. I am grateful that God does answer our prayers!
Love,
Elder Bohn
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