Week 13 First week in the Lovell Wyoming area


This was a busy week of traveling for Elder Williams. He was transferred from Gillette Wyoming to Lovell Wyoming. The way transfers work is every 6 weeks you may be transferred. Typically, a missionary stays in an area for more than one transfer but there are times when they only stay for one transfer. Mason served in his first area for 2 transfers.

Mason was definitely excited about this transfer because it brings about an opportunity for new growth in himself and in the work that he is doing. There was a lot of travel this week but there were also spiritual experiences to be had.

For those who were worried about Mason being the disobedient Elder you can put those worries to rest. This week he was paired up with some Elders who were not to hip on rule following and Mason was able to recognize it and ask to be paired up with someone else for the day.

This is what happened on that day:
"I had such a good day, we were able to help the new elders and sister who came into the mission today. It was super cool to be able to help them especially since I haven't been out very long I was able to tell them some things I wish I would've known sooner! We got paired up with a new elder and they had us go tracting today and that was a lot of fun taking the new guy out and showing him how it's done! We had to place a Book of Mormon so I was trying really hard to be a good example! The first guy we talked to was sooooo crazy he just wanted to bible bash us the whole time and was saying the weirdest things and I had no clue what he was talking about. I felt so bad because this new guy was like oh man what have I got myself into....  I was able at one point to ask the man "What did Jesus mean when he said Other sheep I have which are not of this fold?"

For the first time in about 7 minutes he did not speak and was super confused. I explained that those sheep were the people in the America and how the Book of Mormon was about them! Well he didn't take the Book but I was glad I was able to share that with him and showed the new guy it's not bad to be bold. So after that we keep trying to place it knocking on door after door and I just felt like we should keep going but after that we knocked on all the doors on the street so we had to head back to the church... As we are walking back I hear "Hey how's the mission going?" So we stop and look and it's just this random guy walking and he wanted to talk to us and we gave him the Book! It was so cool to see what happens when you try your hardest that God will put someone in your path."

In his new area the kids attend seminary (scripture study) as a part of their schooling. Here our high school aged kids attend early morning seminar before school. Because of the large amount of Latter Day Saints in his area they have it as a part of their schooling. One neat thing Mason and his companion will be doing is:

Lovell is basically mini Utah because they even have seminary as part of school. So every Friday we go into all the seminary classes and share a quick message with the students and how to help make them better member missionaries and how to prepare for a mission.


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