Week 4 in Moroleon. August 28, 2017

Hey everyone! well this week was pretty cool since we had our zone conference and interviews with the president. Monday was normal, played pool for an hour haha, my companion and i are getting pretty good! a member cut our hair, that was a mistake... then just made a few visits that night. Got up early tuesday morning to make it to the zone conference. It was so nice not having to stress at all that day haha. for the food or for time, nope i was a happy camper that day just able to sit back and relax! the zone conference took a decent amount of time as well, from 9 to 330, in part of it they made me do a wall sit while about 8 other Elders did a circle sit, sitting on each others legs. that activity was supposed to show that working as a team and in unity is more effective than by ourselves. i almost lasted longer than all the other elders haha, but after about 3 or 4 minutes my legs finally gave out. so that was funny. also i got to see 2 of the young men that i used to visit when i was in this ward. they both told me that they are getting ready to go on missions so i was very happy to hear that. Wednesday we had to get up early again for our interviews with the president. The president talked more in my interview than i did haha, that just how he is though. in our 20 minute talk i think i got off less than 100 words. but thats ok. Wednesday was also quite the adventure because our bishop asked us to go with him to a house of prayer that is in the wards area. well we went with him to a teeny tiny town that was about an hour away from moroleon. we went to close the house of prayer since no one had used it in 6 months. by some miracle we were able to fit 42 chairs, a table, lots of brooms and mops and books, and small pulpit all in the bishops minivan haha. and then we took it all back to moroleon! to show that he was grateful for our help the bishop took us out to eat dinner that night(pictures to come). thursday was chill, just planning for the week and getting everything ready for the activity on friday. Friday night we put the movie of joseph smith on in the church. it was supposed to start at 6, but since we run on mormom mexican standard time, we didnt start till 645. i was hoping for more people to show up but we had about 40 people show up, along with a few new investigators, so that was sweet! saturday was a day we could actually work and visit people all day without interrumptions, so that was great. sunday after church we had a barbecue with the bishops family a family of recent converts. we cooked a whole lot of steak and sausage, needless to say i was a happy Elder haha. that night we had quite the interesting lesson with one of our new investigators. wednesday night a girl came up and talked to me and asked who i was and what im doing here. well i explained to her that were missionaries and preach of christ and she said she wanted us to visit her one day. her name is karen and she is 18, thankfully we were able to have the lesson sunday night with her in a members house who helped us out ATON, but she basically said that she came up and talked to me because she thought i was cute.... i guess my haircut didnt turn out too bad after all haha. so yeah that was interesting but we will see how that goes this week. Today we came to morelia with the zone leaders and went bowling and also played pool. i won the first game of bowling but i had a drastic injury the second game... thumb cramp, almost won though! im loving the mission! this week should be filled with lots of good work i hope, our "golden investigator" jesus went off the deep end.... he had told us he was tired of his old life of drinking and drugs, but apparently not because this whole last week we havent seen him and his family told us that he was doing those things again... oh well back to finding more people that want to be baptized! i hope you all have a great week! may God be with you! Love Elder Griffin