Area: Jackson
Howdy howdy!!
Holy smokes it's been a while! It's definitely been a week for the books! It was probably one of the longest yet shortest weeks of my mission and definitely the most exhausting!! There were so many people and so many missionaries! Every night we had from four to ten other Elders in our house! It made me Pooped!
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| What the booth looked like |
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| The Lancaster District when they came to help |
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| Elder and Sister Allison |
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| Elder and Sister Meacham |
Well everyday really looked the same.. So after we got the booth all set up, which looked amazing! All the craziness started just like that! We would wake up, Exercise, take turns showering and getting ready and be to the Allison's by 9:30 with all the missionaries. We'd eat an amazing brunch provided by the branch and give a training to the missionaries and why we have them here in Jackson! Then we'd all shuttle them to the festival. I got to drive the beast and it was a good time! We had a reserved parking spot from a member who owned a house pretty close! Which was very convenient! Then we got there and set the booth up and start talking to people! What we would do was we had a couple clip boards with sign up sheets on it and a binder with pictures of all of our prizes!! So if we got someone to sign it that was called a sign up. If we got them to check one of the three boxes at the bottom of it, it's a referral! There were three boxes to check, family history account and training, a free king James version of the Bible, and a book of Mormon! We had an incentive for the missionaries as well! We made a deal that who ever got the most people to sign up would get Michael's ice cream!! It was crazy how hard they worked after that! Haha! We gave a beautiful statue of Christ away, a little 10 inch one, and we had 4 awesome pictures as well. Our goal was to get a thousand people to sign up. After the first day it was pretty slow and we got kinda nervous because we only had like 157 or so, but we knew it meant we had to work harder! The sisters one that day because they wouldn't leave the dang booth... Haha! Even then we only lost by five or so. We ended up winning on Thursday with fifty nine! That was a new record that we broke the next day with sixty one! Except someone else got sixty four so that's all good! Later on in the day we'd have dinner and by nine we'd head home and get some shut eye!
Well I did want to share a couple miracles we've seen already from this!
Number one we tried so hard to reach our goal of a thousand, when the final count came we only had like 950, then on Sunday we found a bunch more hidden in binders and ended up having 1135 people sign up and 800 of those were self referrals! Meaning they signed up to have one of the three boxes given to them! Which means that we can go to their house!! Holla! Some genius must have thought of that! Lol! 219 requests for the book of Mormon! 545 for the Bible, and 363 for family history! Huge miracle! God has definitely put a lot of trust in us!
Miracle number two! Two people that we have had on date in the past were found at the Apple Festival and signed up! One of them has finished the Book of Mormon and still wants to come back! Many former investigators signed up! It was so sick!
Miracle number three! The first place winner was a ten year old kid. When we went to drop off the statue, we were shocked because his family invited us back and have been looking for a church! They want to come on Sunday and the kids a genius! Loves the Bible and is so sweet! Was stoked to read the Book of Mormon! Hopefully his family will come a day everything will go well!
Today we got to go bowling, play volleyball, and ultimate Frisbee for a district activity! Got some free hair cuts and ate steak and shake! Life's good! Haha
Love y'all so much! Hope your week was this good!
Hope you know how much the mission has changed me and my testimony! Every night after we got the results, thinking about how many children of God have opened up and signed up is very humbling and I'm excited for the craziness that is now happening!
Love ya!
Love Elder Smoot
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