Meetings, and Temple and Stuff (Oh My!)

Greetings everyone!

This week was certainly interesting, that's for sure! Though

unfortunately, it meant that not a ton of work got done in the area.

Thursday, we had Zone Conference, which talked a lot about teaching

investigators for shorter blocks of time more frequently to help them

stay on track. Which honestly makes a lot of sense and I hope to be

able to apply it to my area. After that, we had to run to the urgent

care because Talbot had messed up his thumb earlier in the week and

the mission doctor told him that he needed to get it checked out. No

worries, Talbot isn't going to die, but we did have fun telling people

at the conference that he was a leper due to the appearance of his

thumb.

Friday, we were able to go to the temple! Due to the fact that we had

to walk from the nearest metro stop to the temple and back, it ended

up basically being an all day affair, but I seriously am so grateful

for the opportunity that we had to do so! Since we are now only able

to go to the temple about half as much as we used to, any and every

opportunity that we have to go worship there is greatly appreciated! I

love the temple so much and gain so much spiritual strength from being

there!

Saturday, we had interviews with President and Sister Johnson, which

went really well. President told Talbot and I both individually that

he is goi to keep us together at least one more transfer in Capitol

Hill, which I am super excited for because Talbot is awesome and we

get along really well!

Sunday was my 18 month mark, which is crazy to think that I've been

out this long! (If I was a Sister, I'd be done by now, just sayin').

Sunday was also fast and Testimony meeting, which was a very different

experience, to say the least. So to start, whenever anyone goes up to

the pulpit and says "good morning" everyone in the congregation

responds with a "good morning" back. So that's cool. During this

meeting though, we had a woman come up and sing The Lord's Prayer to

the tune of Ave Maria, a man (who's name is, no joke, Tyrone) come up

and offer a prayer (for his testimony, mind you) during which he

blessed literally everyone and everything you can think of. The saying

among missionaries in the Ward is that if you ever forget to bless

your food before you eat, don't worry because Tyrone has probably

blessed it already. So that was fun. After that and a few other

testimonies, a woman came up and bore her testimony on how much she

loved everyone else's testimonies. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is

a pretty typical Sunday in the Capitol Hill Ward!

That's all from me this week! I love you all! Have an amazing week!

Sincerely,

Elder Sam Williams

70 I St SE

Washington, DC, 20003

1. One of the perks about serving in Capitol Hill is that we get to

pass by here every week on the way to Ward Correlation meeting.