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Elder Derek Roden
Tennessee Knoxville Mission
11320 Station West Drive, Suite 101
Farragut, TN 37934

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Love N.C.


  Well, good news is it was a really good week. Bad news is we don’t really get a Pday today so I’ll have to keep it short. Elder Costa of the Seventy is coming for a special training meeting in Knoxville today, so we have to pick up the STL’s and go to that.  But we might get an extra half p day sometime this week.
Tuesday:
   Jean Patton is getting Baptized on Tuesday the 7th! We are super excited and so is she. She is the sweetest old lady. We went over on Tuesday and rebuilt a big dog house for her which was fun.  Her daughter breeds and trains dog so they have a really cool setup there. But yeah, we have been over there a few times this week to help her prepare and get ready.
Wednesday:
   Tonight we met a super cool family and taught them, the Grays. They are super funny and we are excited about them.  Then at the church that night we taught the Young men because the leaders want to have them come out with us this summer.  Elder Ostler was in one room talking about teaching and teaching them how to, then I was in another room teaching them how to do door approaches and talking to people in general. It was pretty fun, and we did some role plays with them and it actually was pretty fun. We got some Young men on board.

Check out the sign 🤣

Thursday:
   Today was super long and super hot, haha. We were out in the boonies and our allergies were both going insane.  But it was fun being out there nonetheless.
Friday:
   Friday we taught a few good lessons and had a really good dinner.  Then the Elders from Franklin came down that night for the last couple hours.
Saturday:
   I took Elder Silva from Maricopa, AZ out for the day. We had a really good time getting to know each other and finding a couple of cool new people to teach.
Sunday:
   Busy day. 1st Sunday at the usual building, picked up a guy named Tyler that Ostler found on splits and took him to church with some members, went out to contact some Hispanics with a member (I’m not much help there), did some administrative stuff we have to do each week at the church, dinner at the Queens, then went and saw Jean, then were doing weekly calls from 8:00 to 10:4,5 haha. Pretty good day though.
I hope y’all have a good week!

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