(Just another typical week in the mission field?)
We participated in the Oakland 9th Ward's "lost sheep" program where we attempted to locate and meet with less active members that have not been seen yet by anyone in the ward.
We attended Oakland 9th Ward mission correlation and ward council leadership meetings.
Sister Felt participated in choir practice.
We picked up an investigator (French speaking woman from Liberia) and brought her to church meetings.
Elder Felt confirmed our blind new convert (who also has cerebral palsy) a member of the Church.
We helped the sister missionaries teach a Laotian investigator, and then drove him home.
We sprayed two missionary apartments (one in Alameda, and one in Oakland) for bed bugs.
We prepared a new mission apartment in Moraga (totally furnishing it).
We shopped for additionally needed furnishing for two mission apartments (one in Moraga, and one in Concord).
We delivered extra mattresses to apartments in Moraga, Concord, Martinez, Berkeley, and Oakland so they could house "threesomes" as of transfer day.
We picked up three missionaries and their luggage on one day and transported them to and saw them through security at the San Francisco Airport; and repeated the same process for two more on another day.
We shopped for and delivered 20 pillows to the mission president's wife for newly arriving missionaries from non-supporting countries who needed pillows.
We picked up four newly arriving missionaries from the Mexico MTC at the Oakland Airport, fed them, and delivered them to the mission home.
We replaced door locks on a sisters' apartment in San Francisco, and repaired a light fixture.
We did a temple endowment session.
We helped the sister missionaries teach the French speaking Liberian woman and one of her daughters after we first picked them up and delivered them to the Visitor's Center, as well as helped them tour the Visitor's Center and the temple grounds, and then returned them to their home.
We home/visit taught a newly assigned less active sister for the Oakland 9th Ward.
We shopped for groceries.
Essentially, so much of this is what goes on "behind the scene" of a mission anywhere in the world.
We often do not feel like we're doing enough (mostly when we consider our proselyting activity) until we either tell someone what we just did or we see a list such as the above list for our 21st week in the mission field - NO WONDER WE OFTEN FEEL EXHAUSTED when we return home at the end of the day!
We love you all so much and appreciate all of your prayers on our behalf!
