Hi everyone!
This
week has been crazy, exhausting, and fllippin' awesome all at the same
time! For one, we had the best week the Enoch West Area has had since
at least several months ago. We hit Standards of Excellence! Standards
of Excellence in this mission is a total of 22 lessons, 2 new
investigators, 3 on date for baptism, and 3 investigators at church. We
got 23 lessons, 7 new investigators, 6 on date for baptism, and 6 at
church! This week has been awesome! New investigators seem to be coming
out of nowhere, and we're going to get at least 2 more this week we're
going into! We also finally met with some of our investigators who
haven't been able to meet with us for about 2 months! The Stake
Presidency plan to do splits with the missionaries is also working
pretty well, and has gotten us some extra appointments, and from the
looks of it it will continue to be very productive. However, I think it
is working too well! We literally don't have time to do that most
evenings. We're getting totally booked in the evenings. Too much more,
and we're going to have to stop this plan! We might have to start double
booking ourselves, without all the splits! It's awesome, but there is
such a thing as "too busy" sometimes, especially when the area we cover
is rather large. What I'd like to see is the attention of the plan shift
to filling our afternoons. Our evenings are getting ridiculously full,
but our afternoons are for the most part pretty bare. If all that energy
and focus that the Stake has could be channeled to the afternoons, when
we actually need to be busier, that would be stupendous. As awesome as
this week has been, it's also been exhausting. In addition to regularly
scheduled lessons, and lessons scheduled by ward mission leaders as part
of the Stake initiative, we've also done an outrageous amount of
personal contacting. And we've found quite a bit of success. But I'm
totally exhausted, physically, spiritually, mentally, etc. Thank
goodness for P-Days, right? Anyway, the Lord is really blessing this
area, and I'm so thankful to a part of that work.
As
for the Spider Hordes mentioned in the subject of this email, that's
actually pretty crazy. So, a week or so ago, we were trying to see if
one of our investigators was home, and we found a black widow spider on
their door. We decided to do them a service and destroy it for them,
which we did. I've seen a few other spiders around over the week that
followed, that made me uneasy, but it wasn't anything too serious, and
nothing like the vinegaroon from a month and a half or so ago (anyone
remember that story?). But then this past week, we got some very
unwelcome beasties. In the corner by the door of the stairs that leads
down to the basement we live in, there was a big fat black widow. In the
driveway too, we found a dead one. Now, I'm terrified of the
non-harmful kind of spiders. I don't take very fondly to the one that
can actually kill me. The next morning, there was another black widow,
and a freaking egg sack! I was not about to allow a couple hundred
poisonous demon-spawns to hatch and spread themselves throughout the
place, nor was I remotely fond of the adults. So we determined to put a
stop to it. We went to the Family Dollar and I bought a can of bug
killer spray. We came back, and lo an behold there was not one, but
three black widows (and the egg sack), and two spiders of another sort
that weren't black widows but were nonetheless spiders and had to go.
And one of the black widows was HUGE. We nicknamed it Big Mama. Then we
unleashed the bug-spray. We doused the whole corner, as well as spraying
other parts of the stair-well that could be potential bug lairs. The
two that were not black widows died pretty much instantaneously. The two
smaller black widows died shortly thereafter. But Big Mama didn't want
to give it up, and she kept trying to escape. But she eventually died
too. Then a couple days ago, another black widow tried to get in.
However, this bug spray lasts several weeks, and this spider crawled
into the sprayed area and died shortly thereafter. So that's a total of
four black widows that I got rid of. Maybe that sounds like a really
lame accomplishment to most people, but I feel like I just slayed some
dragons or something.
In
other news, today is my 8 Month Mark! I can't believe it's been that
long! It's just flying by! Well that's about it for today. Have a great
week!
-Elder Oswald
PS- My companion is just really awesome! I'm really enjoying training him and working with him!
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