Not Phase 3? 3-29-2021

 

Hello everyone!


This week has been such a good week! We had some more Elders over to do exchanges with the Zone Leaders this week and it was really fun! And we got to do exchanges ourselves! It was a blast, we had the Gaylord Elders over and the Petoskey Elders. It was super fun, every time we have Elders come over we go to this soda shop called Rocket Fizz. I've been there so many times since I've been here, they  have all these fun flavors of soda! There are so many, and they are all come in bottles. When we are done we smash them with our bare hands. Yeah, that's right.

We had a lot of good lessons this week, we met with Jon a few times, Shelly a few times, the Millner family a few times, Maida a few times, and it was great! Unfortunately, something came up for Maida's baptism and it will be postponed for now. But she is still super excited to continue learning and eventually be baptized! And some more exciting news! We were able to move Jon's date up to Easter! How cool will that be?! Easter, General Conference, and a baptism all on the same day! Jon is seriously so amazing and so prepared to fully accept the gospel in his life!

We were able to meet with this new guy this week that Elder Crookston found and referred. He is super crazy. It was one of the wildest experiences, he talked about brain waves and apparently an archangel named Metatron in the bible. Like what? And he was going off about a lot of crazy things, it was something else. And I was texting one guy here in Traverse City, and he said we should reach out to his friend in Uganda. So we did, and we tried to meet with him by setting up a zoom meeting. It took almost and hour, and when he got on he couldn't figure out how to turn on the audio so it was really funny. We just started at each for like 10 min. 😂 But we set up another time to meet Tuesday so we'll see how that goes.

Yesterday was fast and testimony meeting and I had the chance to bear my testimony. It was great. But even more amazing was Doug really wanted to share his testimony! And so he put together a little talk about Palm Sunday, and it was really good! He is seriously golden, he even passed the sacrament again with his roller walker and I had the opportunity to assist him again. I am so excited for General Conference this weekend, and it is the end of the transfer! So we'll see what happens there, stay in tune!

So you're probably wondering about the title of my email, and it's some exciting news! We opened up a little bit more on restrictions here! Prayers have been answered! We can now use the churches when we need to, but we still have to get permission as a district. We can meet with members in person if technology doesn't work well for them and if our branch President approves it. We can do service for non members if it's approved now. All zone conferences will be in person from now on. But there are no in person interviews at this point in time which is sad. And we can have 3 district p-days now. So that's exciting! They are calling it (not phase 3). So we got to use the church to play basketball a bit today.

Thanks for all your love and prayers! Stay sweet out there!

Elder Williams 

Prayers:
Joe
Maida
Shelly
Jon
David

Pictures:
1. I thought this was a caterpillar 🤦‍♂️
2. Me and Elder Roberts 
3. Jacob Millner painted a cross Doug gave him
4. Last pic with this district
5. Me 
6. Petoskey 2 and us










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