Had a busy week this time! Had tons of finding and tracking going on and met tons of interesting people throughout the week. I'm working hard, as usual, and I am always trying to find ways to serve others. We also got our car back on Wednesday and it's kind of nice to have it back because we don't have to ask member's for rides to places anymore. Which has been really hard to do and it's really hard to find someone who is willing to fellowship.
So Thursday we did something called a Zone Blitz, meaning all the Missionaries in our Zone go down to one area (in our Zone) and work there for a whole day. Parentally the work hasn't been going well in Live Oak so we conducted the Zone Blitz. It was tons of fun, Elder Hanson and I was assigned to a part were there lots of members close to one another. We also managed to pick up two new potential investigators and placed a Book of Mormon.
During the Blitz, we also did a service project were we went to the highway in Live Oak and picked up trash off the side of the road. There were so many cigarette butts every where that eventually our District gave up on picking them up and left them, except for Sister Jones, she faithfully stayed behind and picking up every cigarette she found. It was tons of fun and found some pretty interesting things also. We even got a picture taken by someone who said they wanted to it to their boss.
While we were there, we found a Penny Candy Store and Elder Hanson and I agreed to go in. The place was amazing! They had a shelf were you can buy pieces of candy for only a penny and tons of fairly descent priced candy! Along with some candy that is now really hard to find! Such as both the bubble gum and chalk-like cigarettes (I didn't buy any. However, we did go back down on Friday with a couple of Elders and Elder Benedict bought four packs of the bubble gum candy cigarettes.) and the Harry Potter candies, the Gummi Slugs, Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, and Chocolate Frogs with a collectable wizard card inside (I got Gildroy Lockhart.)
We had Stake Conference this week and the adult session talked a lot about using modern technology to help spread the Gospel. Like using hashtags, Facebook, Twitter, etc. it was really interesting and I did have different views on social media after that.
I hope you all have a good week ahead of you! Keep working hard and keep doing the things that you need to do! I love you all and miss you all so much!
Love,
Elder Paul Willis
Man, what a great missionary!
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