This week was very much like the last. Working hard to become a scholar of the gospel and applying it into my life 24/7. Elder Duffin and I were praying very hard to find someone interested in learning lessons and on Wednesday we were running around the ghetto when out of no where some dude chillin on his apartment balcony in all red clothes told us to head up to room 321.
We did just that and the man who's name was Erick shook our hands and invited us in. Turns out he just moved to Lansing from Ipsilani Michigan and was an actual veteran who was deployed to Iraq twice back in the early 2000s. He had a small museum of framed George Bush pictures all over his walls and those were about the only items he had in his small apartment. He said he knew who we were and he wanted lessons immediately. Hes in the Narcotics Anonymous program and is trying to go above and beyond.
We taught Eric the Restoration of the Gospel through a Prophet and helped him bake a frozen chicken in his fridge because he didn't know how to cook. He came to church with us on Sunday and we are returning to hook him up with addresses to local food banks and to teach him the Plan of Salvation... which answers the questions regarding the five W's of our existence on Tuesday and it's a wonderful miracle we all found each other.
On Saturday there was a massive state wide "Michigan Family History Seminar" hosted in our big Lansing Stake center Building in down town Lansing and Elder Duffin and I were asked to set up projectors/classrooms/chairs and greet people for the day and it was fun!! It was a large event with over 300 people there who were both members and just normal people. An old guy came up to me and started babbling away in French because I was reading a French-English Dictionary during an intermission between classes and then he sat down with me... opened his laptop and helped me finish finding several generations of my ancestors using this website named Pasilla and it was amazing!
Both my Mom and Dads sides work regarding ancestry records have been found and uploaded all the way back to the 1600s and now I'll have plenty of names for when I return home to baptize and confirm in the temple. Super pleased with that!!!
Lastly I found 2 easy healthy cooking recipes that I really liked this week. One of which is a sort of Breakfast Casserole where I throw all of my favorite ingredients into a pan with milk and eggs and bake until it rises like a cake and its filling and nice. Another is called White Chicken Chili that is just a bunch of chicken and bacon with cream cheese and spices plus black beans thrown into a crockpot for an hour and it's pretty cheap and easy.
I'm trying to stay disciplined spiritual/mentally/physically every day and I hope and pray it will pay off. I hope everyone back at home is having a great week and I'll continue to push through this strict challenging lifestyle. A mission isn't very fun at all but at least its rewarding!
God bless,
Elder Connolly
PS.. met a guy named "Quarrel" who had no teeth and 5 pet squirrels chillin in the pockets of his baggy carhart pants. All his friends at the park were convinced he was a wizard. Wow the people of this state are just amazing.
Here are some cool pictures from this week... one is at Sparrow Hospital in down town Lansing as we were ministering to a member who had a stroke
and the other is of me with a replica of Duncans sword from the "High lander" some 80s show that a member in my ward loves and insisted I get a picture with it because I look and act like Duncan.
I'm happy people in my Church get a kick out of me. Haha
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