Hey!
Happy New Year all you crazy people. This week was good! Except I got sick all day Tuesday so we couldn't do anything, and then Elder Bates got sick all day Wednesday so we couldn't do anything either. Then we moved our weekly planning to New Years Day because we wanted to have Friday open so we could actually see people, Friday and Saturday were good!
Our Stake is thinking about doing a once a month Sacrament Meeting in Niagara Falls because there are a lot of people that don't come to Lewiston because they don't have cars, so we've been put in charge of going through the ward list in Niagara Falls and trying to see if people will come to our mini-branch sacrament meeting. There are a TON of people on the ward list from Niagara Falls, so we've been going through every single name. It's been pretty fun though! We've been able do some finding as we go so it's been pretty productive!
We usually park in Niagara Falls and then walk around to all the addresses that we have on 'lds tools'. That's what we did on Friday and Saturday. Saturday was crazy because there was freezing rain, so we got really wet and then all of the sidewalks were just ice. We found a new investigator though! We went to an apartment building to look for someone on the ward list, and a lady started asking about where we were from and who we were. She had recently started going back to church, so we talked a little about the restoration and she wants to meet next week! Woo! Her name is Alisha and she's really cool.
Most of the addresses that we go through have people that have moved. I would say there's a 30% chance with every address that we go to that the house has been vacant for a few years. We will go to a house and all the windows are broken and there's 3 or 4 city orders of cleanup stapled to the front door from 2011....but we always knock, haha. I'm guessing it looks really funny, and we get weird looks, because we will go up to the porch of these houses and knock when there is absolutely no chance that anyone has lived there in years, and then we'll turn around and people will be walking by giving us looks that are like "what the heck are you doing?" I can't remember if I've mentioned this but Niagara Falls is pretty run down. It has a worse crime rate than Buffalo, and I would say there are worse looking parts here than in the bad parts of Buffalo. So, yah, it's a fun time.
That's all I've got for this week. We're going to go play soccer with some other elders today, but I don't know how it will go, because it's really really cold outside, but we're still going to try.
OK, bye!
Love, Elder Holt
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