Sprints 🏃‍♂️ (week 7)

So this week, President Heap issued a challenge to the whole mission! As a mission, from Monday the 5th to Sunday the 11th, we had a goal to have 1000 spirit led invitations for new friends to be taught, 500 spirit led invitations to read the book of mormon, 500 spirit led invitations to come to church, and 250 member lessons set up. President Heap said that so much of a mission and of life is like running a marathon, but this week was the time to sprint. And sprint we did! As a mission we had 894 invites to church, 306 2-1-2 lessons set up, 1603 invitations to be taught, and 736 invitations to read the Book of Mormon! So that was awesome. It was a great week.

 So our Facebook finding efforts took up a lot of our time this week. But last Monday, we had a little district p-day that almost turned into a zone p-day 😂. We carved pumkins and played some soccer. 

 On Tuesday we had interviews with President Heap! It was amazing to be able to talk with President Heap. Unfortunately, by the time he got to our companionship he was already like an hour behind schedule. We had a really good, short conversation! I was a bit disappointed that I didn't have more time with him, but we have an amazing mission leadership here with President and Sister Heap. They are amazing! 

 We also went live again on Tuesday. It was our last part of our breakdown of King Benjamin's address. But I think I'm going to breakdown Alma chapter 5 on my own this Tuesday night at 8 so stay tuned for that! I'm super excited for it.

 Tuesday was also 1 year from when I put in my availability date for my mission! After almost 10 and a half months I finally made it out to the mission field 😂

 On Wednesday we did some service for the food bank at their warehouse. We bagged and boxed a lot of plums! We also met with our new friend Iyonna. She is awesome and we have loved the opportunity to get to know her better! We studied in the book of revelation!

 Thursday we did a lot of finding. I got a new record of 14 responses on Facebook! We also met with our friend Boone again, and had a zone conference. The Sisters experienced an amazing miracle on Thursday though and were able to put their friend Teresa on date for baptism! Teresa is awesome and I am super happy for her to enter the waters of baptism!

 On Friday we did more work for the food bank in their gardens over by Okemos. That was fun!

 On Saturday we dropped off a Book of Mormon to our friend Nick. We also met again with Tom! 

 On Sunday we had in person church which was awesome! We also had another lesson with the amazing Donnelly family! We talked about temple marriage and sealings! We also had an awesome mission devotional with the guest speaker being President Ward, he is the Stake President of the Ann Arbor stake. He shared some awesome stories about his mission and he is an oral surgeon, and he lost his thumb and still does surgery! He's pretty awesome and he had some great thoughts.

 But thank you guys for your support and I will be back next week!

Elder Oswald

The comp-ship


Pumpkin pie shake from dairy dan 😋


Elder Averill's angel Moroni pumpkin


My uhh... pumpkin


The group at service. The little fort was built by some awesome Chinese kids!


Our Zone Leaders, Elder Pepa and Elder Miller


Elder Pepa made himself a helmet



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