So I'm finally out in the field!!!! My first area is Greenville North Carolina. This place is so prepared. My trainer is Elder Terril. He's a cool guy. Anyways, on to the week.
Tuesday- I was still in the MTC at this time. My companion was still sick so I was restrained to the residence hall all morning. We took him to the clinic after lunch and they said that he was going to get delayed. Poor guy. We were able to go to the devotional that night. Elder Cook spoke and is was a wonderful talk.
Wednesday- We had a super early start. We had to report to the travel office at 3:30 in the morning!!! We got to the airport and I was able to talk to my parents for a while. It was so great to hear their voices. We got on the plane and this thing was sweet. It had touch screen displays and the seats were oh so comfortable. We had to switch flights in Atlanta to get to the Norfolk airport. That plane ride sucked!!! My back is still hurting from it. We landed and were greeted by President Baker. He's a really nice guy. We got some dinner at the church and had some orientation stuff.
Thursday- We traveled to the mission home to receive our assignments. I of course am in Greenville. I love it here. The only thing is that I keep getting lost. There are no mountains for me to tell directions with. We had to travel 3 hours from Newport News, Virginia to Greenville. Let me tell you something about the scenery. TREES, TREES, AND MORE TREES. We got to the apartment and did some planning. We then went to a member's house, Bro. Smith, for dinner. He made meatloaf and this was the best meatloaf I've ever had. We had my first lesson and it was definitely not anything like the MTC. Good thing Bro. Smith was there cause it was bad. I completely froze up.
Friday- We had our district meeting, so I was able to meet all of the missionaries in the district. Elder Terril and the spanish Elders (they live with us, Elder Seastrand and Elder Lancaster) took me to a place called Cook-Out. It was awesome. We had a couple of more appointments that we biked to. We got so many potential investigators. We spoke with this one lady for probably 15 minutes. The second we finished, it started pouring rain. The Lord is watching out for us.
Saturday- We had correlation in the morning. We had an appointment cancel last second. This lady (Kecia) that canceled is very close to baptism. She just has to quit smoking. That's a huge problem down here. We had an appointment in an assisted living center. It was very hard to understand him. Afterwards, this guy in a wheelchair rolled up to us and told us that we were wrong. My first anti. We biked home so we could talk to people. We met a few Jehovah's Witnesses. Most of them were nice, but one of them really just seemed to want to argue. We went back to Kecia's house to see if she wanted a ride to church tomorrow. We met her cousin and we taught her about the Book of Mormon. She seemed really interested and we set up an appointment.
Sunday- We didn't have ward council, cause most of the council was out of town. Me and Elder Terril had to prepare and bless the sacrament. We also were asked to teach a little bit in Relief Society. That was definitely a new experience. We gave a blessing to one of the Sister missionaries' investigators. We tried to go visit one of our investigators but we just missed him. We started home and on the way, we stopped at another investigators home. He was gone but his cousin was there. She was an awesome lady. We gave her a BOM and set up an appointment in two weeks. We were supposed to have a lesson with Kecia, but she canceled on us again. We did meet one of her friends, Mike, and he was golden. We walked home with him and we taught about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We set an appointment up with him.
So those were my first few days. I am learning so much everyday. It's ridiculous!!! Hopefully my MTC companion gets to come out this week. Fingers crosses.
Elder Dumont
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