Not Your Typical Bay Watch (Chesapeake that is): Elder Bednar!!!

I'll get to Elder Bednar at the end.

Teaching

We spent a lot of time this week teaching. We taught a total of 15 lessons this week, which is the most I've had for about a year.

Donaheys

4 of those lessons was taught with either Brother or Sister Donahey. We went out with Sister Donahey 2 days in a row, then went with Brother Donahey the evening of that second day.

Service opportunities

The Sister's investigators Kenny and Sha'qual were moving, so we helped them out. We put some stuff in Bishop's trailer, then went over to their place. They weren't there, and their door was locked, so Elder Ward and I threw a baseball. I miss baseball so much. They finally got there, and we finished up. We were at a car dealership, getting our car looked at the next day, and we got a call from Bishop. He needed some help with something at his movie theater. We got a shuttle to take us there. We did some service at Angel's closet, and then we mowed Sister Crawford's lawn.

Movie theater chilling (don't worry, we didn't watch anything)

Someone has to come

We desperately wanted someone we were teaching to come to sacrament meeting. We had to have invited over 50 people to come. We called all of our investigators on Saturday. Sunday rolled around, and nobody came. It was very disappointing, cause Elder Bednar lit up the Chapel. We decided that we did all we could do, and that we want to say that every week. I want to say that I did the best I could do every week. We realized that we should be as excited every week for Sunday, no matter who's speaking.

We had to get creative with food this week. Eggburger.

Elder Bednar

The first glance I got of Elder Bednar: I was sitting at the sacrament table, and he walked by with Brother Lansing (his friend) and walked up the hallway towards the bathroom. The second I saw him, I suddenly received an inspired thought. If I'm this excited to see an Apostle, think about how great it'll be when the Savior returns to the Earth. I came to the conclusion that I, assuming I'm still living, want to be there to welcome the Lord back to the Earth at his second coming. Both Sister and Elder Bednar gave amazing talks. Sister Bednar talked about staying true to who we are as sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father. Elder Bednar spoke about making the sabbath a delight. He urged us to not be afraid of repetitious teaching. Line upon line comes from this repeated teaching. They did a Q&A session for the 2nd and 3rd hour. They work very well together and they are hilarious. After church, everybody got to shake their hands, then Elder Ward asked for a picture and Elder Bednar agreed. It was the best ever, definitely a life changing experience.