Veinte!

Hello all!

We had another great week!  Weeks out here are just always great, so hooray for mission life!  I'll just dive in and give a little bit of a scoop what happened last week...

Wednesday- We took a wrong exit getting back to our house after playing some basketball and ended up on a toll freeway that didn't have an exit for sixteen miles, so we blew like forty miles and nearly an hour trying to get back home- it was pretty funny!  That night we got in one lesson with an investigator and it was a solid lesson.

Thursday- I woke up and started feeling funny during studies.  By language study, I was feeling really weak and so I just had to take a nap.  I didn't have any energy- it was like I had the flu without any of the sinus or throat problems- so we stayed in that day and did some weekly planning.

Friday- Felt better, so we took the hour car ride down to Ossining for Zone Conference- it was sweet!  We learned a ton on how to be a consecrated missionary- how to better put everything on the altar of sacrifice and just put 100% of our energy, efforts, thoughts, etc. on the work with which we are involved.  As we were coming home, I started feeling bad again and we went to one appointment, but I had a fever so we came back and I crashed at 8:00.

Saturday- I woke up feeling a little better, but Elder Lewis wasn't feeling well.  We later found out that there has been a virus going around in this area, so I'd imagine we were just victims of that.  Anyways, we decided to stay in again just to make sure we were cleared out, so we did such.  We finished weekly planning and worked on organizing things so that we can attack hard with less active look ups in the next couple of weeks.

Sunday- Church was good!  Afterwards we went out to work.  We tried stopping by a few different people's houses without finding anybody home.  We finally found a part member family that we had been looking for for awhile and we taught them a good lesson.

Monday and Tuesday- We went to work!  We just decided to get out and stay out and make the best out of every moment, trying to be consecrated missionaries.  We tried to fill up both of those days with appointments and for whatever times we didn't have appointments we put people down that we could possibly drop by and see and we had back up plans, people we were going to look up and it was great!  We ended up with nine lessons after both days and we've found lots of people we can potentially work with.  Once we get things cranking, we'll probably be able to see around thirty lessons a week easily.  People said that upstate work is a lot slower, but that's a lie- there's plenty of things to do here.  Too much, it seems- we keep on not wanting to add to our teaching pool because we've already got a lot to juggle, but we keep getting people thrust upon us.  It's a great problem to have!  So things are going great!

Today we're planning on going on a hike- the AT runs through our area, so we're going to hit up a four mile trail.  I'm excited!  Then at 6:00, we're going to jump back into things and give it our all.  The mission is great- I'm loving it!

Thanks for all the support back home- you guys are great!  I hope you have a great week!

-Elder Griffiths