Me and Steed
So on Monday we went fishing near this dam in
Columbia, TN. I took some pretty good photos and Elder Hinds struck out on
fishing. I think that was the first day I was with him that he didn't catch
anything.
James K. Polk home
from the front
Anyways
after that we went downtown to visit the James K. Polk home, which is basically
one of the more famous things in the city. It's like the equivalent to Andrew
Jackson's Heritage, except it was the home of Polk's parents and his childhood.
It's the only standing home of President Polk. For those of you, like me, who
don't really know a whole lot about President Polk, here's some interesting
facts:
He ran
for President in 1844 and served from 1845-1849 after serving as a lawyer and a
congressman, I believe. He only served one term and died less than a year out
of office in his 50's He was President during the war with Mexico and was
present during the annexation of Texas as well as seeing the other states that
came with that acquisition. He is one of
three US presidents from Tennessee (Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson are the
other two), however he was born in North Carolina.
Polk home from the
back
But yeah,
we toured the house and had a pretty good experience. There wasn't too much
there, but the museum was really fascinating. After the tour we went up to
TSTAT (Thompson’s Station Ward) and hung out with the elders there just playing
basketball.
Tuesday was my birthday and in the morning
we got a call to help out this family move some pretty heavy stuff from their
shed to the house and from a Penske truck to the shed. It was exhausting. After
that we got a call from Elder Steed, my old companion in Eldorado, Illinois,
who had finished his mission in October. He had come back to visit the mission
this week so he took us out for blizzards at DQ. It was weird seeing him not as
a missionary anymore. But cool none-theless. After that we had lunch at Olive
Garden thanks to a gift card, and then we went down for a lesson with Zoey,
which went well. After that we went over to the Maury County Park where a good chunk
of the ward were there and threw me a surprise birthday party. It was a lot of
fun and I appreciated everyone who did that for me.
Birthday party!
Wednesday we did not have district meeting
because Hermana Hooker was sick, so we instead went out contacting people. We
didn't have a whole lot of success but we did see a recent convert and later on
we contacted
some old investigators. We did go out to eat with the Zone Leaders again, which
was fun.
Thursday we had district meeting since
Hermana Hooker was better, and I trained on dropping and deleting
investigators. Basically cleaning up the area book so that missionaries know
who they need to go see, and who is on the back burner. We also had a mini
party since it was Sister Crossley's birthday that day. So we celebrated hers
and my birthdays. After that we went over to Zoey's again, and this was pretty cool. We
had asked her on Tuesday to pray about who she wanted to baptize her out of the
ward, and she ended up picking me. It'll be the first time I ever baptize
someone which will be cool. I'm excited for it.
Friday we did some planning as well as some
other things. We tried a few people and set up some appointments and then got a
ride to Hampshire, TN where the bishop lives and we had dinner there. It's funny
cause everyone is talking about and asking if I'm excited to go home. I
wouldn't say excited, I would say ready. I feel ready to go home. I've done a
lot on my mission and I'm excited for the last bit of it.
Saturday we had a Cinco de Mayo party at the
park, which was a lot of fun. We had a lot of people come out to it. They had a
giant slip and slide which was really tempting, and a lot of good barbecue.
After the party we
went to go help out a member with his yard. He later brought over one of his
Mennonite friends who was cool to talk to.
Sunday was Mother’s Day, so after church
we got to Skype home. We had technical difficulties at the first house so then
we just went to our place to Skype. It was kinda weird in my opinion, since I
see most of my family
in roughly 16 days so most of the time was spent talking about other things
than the mission like what plans are for home. I'm looking forward to it. After
that we went and gave a Hispanic lady a blessing.
She didn't speak any English and the Hermanas kinda bailed on us, so it was
interesting. I used whatever Spanish I knew and it was fun. We also found out
that Zoey went to Columbia Ward's meetings, which are
an hour after ours are so she is well on her way to getting baptized on May 21st.
Fishing by the
dam in Columbia
Today we
are up in Franklin, TN and I'm currently writing this while they are fishing
again. I've kind of gotten burned out of fishing. It's okay every now and then,
but like every week is getting ridiculous haha.
Anyways, hope y'all are doing
well and thank you again so much for all the birthday wishes. It has meant so much to me.
Have a
good week!
Elder Peery
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