September Skies

This week was pretty good and I had a lot of fun serving the people of Arkadelphia.

Spiritual: Our mission is doing something unique that I am really excited to be doing. We have been asked to invite people to meet with the missionaries as much as we can and to record how many people we invite. We really love recording this because it helps us to see what effort we are making in our own work. This week our mission president has asked us as a mission to achieve 3500 invitations and we are willing and ready to make that happen. It is very cool to see how inviting somebody to learn more helps them be brave enough to say yes and let us come meet with them.

Funny: There is a less-active lady that we try to visit often named Lea Ann and she was telling us how she was so excited because it was going to rain on the 1st of September. We were confused as to why that would be exciting... Apparently, she heard from somebody who was doing the weather on TV that if it rains on the 1st of the month, it will rain for exactly 15 days that month. So if it rained for you on the 1st of the month, keep track of how many days it rains because I'm not sure I see the weather following quite that specific pattern. It didn't rain for us on that day so we can't know the future. It was just a really funny conversation.

Where I'm at: In Arkadelphia, we had quite a few people who have loved ones in Texas who were affected by the Hurricane and we also had a few people who are experiencing personal hurricanes so we have seen the branch come support people really well. It will be interesting to see where this next week takes us, given that next week is transfers...

Things are good here :)