It sounds like you have been having a relaxing spring break! I'm glad. And I'm glad that Jonny was able to get a job! That will be good. I am excited for him and Emily. Conference was so great. I loved it all. My favorite talk was either Elder Wakalo's (I think I spelled that right) or Elder Uchtdorf's. I really loved the phrase "Behold the Man." Sometimes we learn about the Savior without really beholding Him. We need to come to know the Savior and not just know about Him. It is something that I still have to get better at but I know I have changed a lot so far!
This week has been exhausting. Lots of work and sadly, not too much to show for it. I love this area though. The members are so great and it's so fun. It's very tough though.
Thursday was a fun day! We had district meeting which is always great. My district is so awesome. We have 2 sets of Elders that are speaking Nepali. It's crazy. There's a lot of Nepali people in the New Albany, Ohio area. We ended up biking all day. In the pouring rain! It was a blast. We were really low on miles for the end of the month so we had to bike. It was the first time using my bike on my mission! Crazy right? It is a great bike though. I'm glad I finally got to use my 16th birthday present hahaha! We had a lesson that we biked to but he didn't answer the door so we knocked a lot. Lots of nice people but no one was interested. Then we biked back to town and met with Brother McNamer. He is a less active member but he has been coming to church lately! He is so awesome. He definitely has a testimony and it was a great discussion with him. We also did some Facebook proselyting. We have been finding success that way. Not with people in Johnstown sadly but with other people around the world. We have been able to send referrals to other missionaries which has been cool! Later that evening we knocked on more doors. Most people weren't interested except for this one guy! So we are visiting him again tomorrow.
Friday it wasn't raining so that's good! We did service at the thrift store. The lady that runs it is named Eileen and she is so nice. She is awesome. She is actually on a family trip right now in Washington! She was asking me about it. Her son lives near Seattle. She has also been asking a lot more questions about the church lately and it has been really cool. The rest of the day we did weekly planning and knocked some more! We are determined to find people. We played basketball with these kids Friday night. I loved basketball contacting. It's so much fun. We got to show them the Prince of peace video afterwards and give them some pass along cards. They now know that the Mormons are cool (I hope) haha!
Saturday was a great day. We helped with the ward Easter breakfast in the morning. And Eileen and her husband came! That was really cool to see her there and she became friends with some members. We served the food. Then we watched conference. It was a special experience to sustain President Nelson as the prophet. I know he has been called of God. I also know that Elder Gong and Elder Soares have been called of God. We watched the Priesthood session at the Smith's house! Brother Smith is really awesome. It was a great session. I know that we all need to rise up! Rise Up O Men of God!
Sunday was a great Easter. We watched conference at the Lawsons. That was a lot of fun. They are such a great family. Again, conference was great. I always feel an increased desire to serve God and come closer to Christ each conference. I really loved President Nelson's invitation to seek for more personal revelation. That is something that I will try to apply in my missionary work for sure!
Monday we woke up with snow on the ground! It's April! We did service at the food pantry and then we had a lesson with our investigator Charlie. He is really cool. He is searching for truth and reading the Book of Mormon. We knocked on some more doors and then tried a new contacting technique. We tried contacting in the Kroger parking lot because there is always a lot of people. We got rejected a bunch but we saw some members there and talked to them and they invited us over for dinner! So that was a tender mercy. They are a great family as well and are always willing to introduce us to friends. They promised to let us know about community activities that we can go to to meet their friends. I'm excited for that. I know thay the work here will progress as we start to work with members more closely. We have been trying to do that.
Tuesday was good. More knocking! Can you see a pattern? Haha! We met this really nice guy that was interested but we were able to talk about family history and his wife is really interested in that so we got to tell him about the family history center we have and familysearch.org. There was a tornado warning in the evening so we had to stay inside for most of the evening. We got some good Facebook finding in though! We messaged this one guy that told us that he wants to join the church but just didn't know how! So that was awesome. The tornado never touched down. We went out and visited our most progressing investigator and he dropped us.
So that was my week! Hoping and praying that things will start to pick up soon. It's tough but I am loving it here. Hopefully next week will be more exciting haha!
Love you mom! Thank you for the love and support and prayers!
Your son,
Elder Collier
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