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Just kidding, it does, I just can't think of it right now.

Tuesday- We met with Sharlene. She wanted a day in the life of an average Mormon, so we told her what an average day for us before the mission was like. We also went through the articles of faith one by one.

Wednesday- We got to help with the mutual activity!!! It was so much fun!! They were doing a mini MTC activity and zombie apocalypse. We taught about door approaches and meat shield convincing. It was so much fun. It made me reminisce about my days in Mutual with the man Parker. You rock bro.

Thursday- We planned and we cleaned. We were inside for a lot of the day for a chunk of the day. We did get out to go see a few people.

Friday- We had Zone Meeting, and then coordination right after. It was just a big chunk of meetings and it wiped me out. We were able to go see Rodney. He told us that he's ready to quit drinking and turn his life around. At night, we went to visit some new investigators. There's a mom with 6 kids that lives near Jermaine. She flagged us down last week. We taught her family the Restoration. It was a wild lesson. Her kids were just super wild.

Saturday- The Spanish's investigator got baptized, so they asked for our help filling up the font. The water heater is janky, so there's a technique to it. We sang the closing him "I am a Child of God," in Spanish. Later on in the day, we tried to do some street contacting near a BMX event. There were a few interested people. The kids riding were anywhere from 14-26 in the expert class. It was sweet.

Sunday- The area seventy Elder Lansing came to just our ward. President Walker invited him. He came to ward council and did some training. He talked about the hastening of the work, and how it hasn't started recently. It started when Joseph retired to a grove of trees one beautiful spring morning. It's just picking up speed. He also spoke in Sacrament Meeting. President Walker gave a talk on finding happiness. Elder Lansing followed it up with a great talk. Both talks were very instructive and inspirational. Both these men have truly been called of God. There is no doubt. 

Something I want to start doing is giving an spiritual thought from my studies during that week. I studied a BYU devotional given by Brother Merrill J. Christensen, a professor at BYU. It was given in 2007. It's entitled Comparing, Competing, and Individual Worth. Part of it focuses on student and professional  life, but the other part focuses on our personal lives. My favorite part of the devotional, is when he talks about Queen Esther. In Esther 4:14 Mordecia (Esther's cousin) reminds her, "Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" We are each given unique talents and abilities. No two people are made up the same. We each experience different trials as well. With this in mind, it is vitally important for us to trust in the will of the Lord. As missionaries, we get moved around to different areas and it can be hard, (I wouldn't know...yet) but accepting the calling to your new area will open up opportunities to reaching out and touching the life of a stranger. Former Relief Society general president Bonnie D. Parkin in a devotional talk in 2007 suggested that when we pray, we can pray "Help me to be the answer to someone's prayer today." We all have unique talents, abilities, callings, and experiences that can be used to be a blessing in someone else's life. Never compare what you have, with what someone else has. Doing so will take you out with a position to be a blessing to someone else. Just be you. That's what the Lord expects.

Plate -1, Elder Dumont - 0

Well the thought was longer than the weekly report haha. I'm awesome. All you are awesome. Everything is awesome, except the plate that nailed me in the face last night. It's not so awesome. Have a blessed week.

Elder Dumont

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