Last Report from the Field

This is it. My next report will be done at home.

Monday- We went to Cape Hatteras with Jacob during P-day. That was a blast!!! We had dinner with the Drake's, then we went and saw Mike Harris and Brother Hulet with Brother Drake.

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​Tuesday- We went and saw Mike again today. We helped him with a couple of projects he was working on, then we talked about the Word of Wisdom. We had dinner with the Estes, then went out and tracted a bit. We talked to a guy that said we could come help him lay some mulch later in the week. We started exchanges with the English Elders. I went with Elder Ferrero.

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Wednesday- We had a pretty good day. We got to see a lot of less actives and members. Elder Ferrero's a really good guy.

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Thursday- After weekly planning, we went out with Jacob to a couple of appointments. They both fell through. We were able to have a meeting with him though. We went and helped that guy lay the mulch, and we taught the Restoration. The Packer's brought us pizza for lunch. We went out and did some bike riding (first time on a bike since December).

Friday- Today was a blast. We woke up early to drop our car off to get an oil change. The Albemarle Elders came and picked us up and took us to Suffolk for our Specialized Training. We received 3 trainings: A personality training, a health and safety training, and a budgeting training (I really needed that last one). In the afternoon, we split up into teams and all played Oompa!!! It was kinda weird playing with Sisters, but it was fun. We picked up the car and Brother Packer hooked us up with some Wendy's. We contacted a referral and that was all we had time for.

Saturday- Brother Winters came with us to a lesson with James. Brother Winters saved that lesson big time!!! We contacted a referral, then went and invited Mike and Dan to church.

Sunday- We had Branch Conference. There were some really good talks given!!! Jacob came with us to a lesson with a Spanish Lady. Jacob translated while we taught. He is awesome!! We had dinner with the Etheridge's.

Love you all!!!

Elder Dumont

They Call Me Elder

Trunky thought of the week: If it wasn't for my week long extension, this would have been my final week in the mission. But alas, I have more time in North Kakali and I love it!!!!!

Monday- We actually washed the car today, like we're supposed to.

After P-Day was over, we had dinner at the Johnson's. We asked them for counsel on how we could help the Greene family come to church. They offered some good ideas that then said they would come with us to our next lesson!!

Tuesday- We had a busy morning: My Plan, DL Call, MLC Call, lunch, DL time, then we went out. We didn't have a whole lot of success today. We got to see Sister Halko and the Hamilton's fed us dinner, but that was about it. We did get this cool pic.

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Wednesday- Today was just plain rough. Nuff said. I guess this would be a good spot for the Meme of the week. We're the worst secret ever!!

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Thursday- Today was much better. We had a good weekly planning session. We both made a goal to not quote movies anymore so we could be more focused.  Not much else happened after that.

Friday- Today was interesting. Us and the zone leaders caught a ride down to Nags Head for district meeting. District meeting was good, but we ended up getting stranded for 3 hours in Nags Head.

​I went on exchanges with Elder Vanisi and we had a really good day. We met with the Johnson's real briefly to get coordinated for the lesson with the Greene's. They had to cancel, but the Johnson's did a great job at inviting them to church and explaining our worship services to them. We met with Brother Smith briefly, and Brother Connel fed us dinner. We did some late night tracting (late night being 8 o'clock). We found some good potentials.

Saturday- Elder Vanisi and I taught a new investigator on our way to exchange back. Elder Collier and I spent much of the day tracting with not much success. We went and worked out our own arrangement for "I Stand All Amazed" for church the next day.

Sunday- Elder Collier sang while I played the piano for the special musical number. People said it was good. My Mom has the recording. We did a lot of tracting and had dinner with the Bairs.

Sorry that was an abrupt ending. I've got to run so I can go to Hatteras. Love you all.

Elder Dumont
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I'm Not Trunky!

But this week sure didn't help with that at all.

Monday- We had dinner with the Moster's.

While we were over there, we found out that Brother Eller had passed away.

Tuesday- It was deep clean day...my last one...(sarcatic) yippee. We went and saw Mike and talked to him about church. He said he really liked it and wants to come back.

Wednesday- I got a wedding invitation from Shane Terril, my trainer. That wasn't crazy at all. We went straight from My Plan to Grandy. We grabbed lunch down there and went and saw Sister Cartwright. We spent a good amount of time tracting, with zero success. It builds character, and knuckle strength.

Thursday- Today, I got my flight itinerary. I'm officially terminal (get it, because like, airport terminal) Following weekly planning, we had a correlation meeting with Jacob. We were thinking that we could walk to one person's house. It turned out to be like 3 miles away. We got a mile in and then were told that it was going to rain soon. As we were heading back to the car, we got drenched ha ha. Thank goodness for waterproof bags. We did get to contact a couple of people, so that was really good.

Friday- We had zone meeting. I gave my departing testimony which is kind of dumb because I still have a month left pretty much. Everybody's going to forget it by the time I leave. I went on exchanges with Elder Edwards. We went and saw Brother Connell and helped him get set up on family search. Apparently, Brother Connell's house is named Lochnagar.

​We hurried home to meet Jacob and he took us up to see a new investigator named Rachel. We introduced the Book of Mormon to her and she was super excited to read it!! Elder Edwards is a funny guy.

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Saturday- We exchanged back. We went and helped Mike with a project and read the Book of Mormon with him.We had dinner with the White's. Sister White prepared my Dad's Sweet and Sour Chicken and Ham Fried Rice recipe. It was sooooo good.

Sunday- We were asked to help run the Primary with Jacob. That was just nuts!! Women of the church, Kudos. Major Kudos. Nah, it was fun though. We met a new less active named Molly. She has a son on a mission in Provo. We went and saw Dan, then Brother Hulet. We went and saw Joshua Greene and his son Malachi joined in. We gave them both a Book of Mormon and they were both excited to read, especially Malachi. We went to the Etheridges for dinner and I skyped my family (actually it was facetime).

I love you all and stuff. Here's my meme of the week.

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Elder Dumont

April showers bring May flowers

Tuesday- I worked on My Plan in the morning, then had a district leader call. While we were out, the GPS sent us down an unpaved road at 45 miles an hour. My driving ability sure was tested yesterday. We were able to deliver a Book of Mormon to a family, and had dinner with the Huggins. I'm going to try to start putting pictures up of the families that feed us. I just don't have any this week.

Wednesday- We went and saw Mike Harris. We talked about him coming to church and he said he would!! We went and saw Brother Eller and Brother Connel, then went to dinner at the Hamilton's. BBQ is sooooooo good!! Sister Hamilton can cook!! Roy and Nick Johnson were there, as well as Brother Smith. We went out with Brother Hamilton and tried to see a couple of people.

Thursday- After weekly planning, Jacob Packer came out with us to see come people. We had quite an adventure!! We went down this neighborhood that was unpaved and just had sand. We were super close to running off the road a couple of times, but it was fun!! We got to see a less active lady that we hadn't seen in a while. We had dinner with the White's and it was super good!!!

Friday- I exchanged with Elder Bearnson after district meeting. We went to lunch at a place called Pass the Salt that was super good!! We did some service for Mike and talked more about him coming to church. We rested for a while, then Jacob and Nathan Packer brought us pizza for dinner, so we had a pizza party in our trailer. They came out with us to a couple of lessons. We taught this guy named Joshua and had a really good lesson with him!!

Saturday- We drove down to Nags Head to get Elder Collier and then back. We were very short on miles. We drove up to Wedgewood, parked the car at Mike's house and walked around. We were able to see Dan and Brother Hulet. We were out tracting when Brother Drake pulled up randomly and asked if we wanted to go home teaching with him. We went and saw Brother Boyd. We gave him a blessing and shared a short lesson.

Sunday- Church was super good today. After church, we had a short meeting with President Evers, and then went and was Sister Sears. We tracted a little bit, then went to an appointment. The guy said he didn't want to waste our time. He started talking about all of these different translations of the bible, and we were like.

Not really, but he was pretty funny about it. We had dinner with Sister Nixon and the Cartwrights.

I love you all. Mom, I'll get pictures of the trailer next week!! For now here's where I sleep. I love you all!!

​Love,
Elder Dumont