week. But all is well and the work is going great.
Umm so first off this week I got home and settled into my new
apartment and then my President gave us a call and wanted us to move
into the Juneau trailer which is a double wide next to the stake
center out here. There are already a set of missionaries in there and
he wants to save on money and it's a test run for the rest of the
mission to see if 4 missionaries can live together without being to
wild. Haha so I had to pack up all of my stuff and haul it across
Juneau it was good though. So we live with the Auke bay Elders and
it's awesome. My companion is elder Hunter and he is awesome and the
other two are elder Watkins and elder call who are really cool. I
served around Elder Watkins while he was in Anchorage and now he is
one of our district leaders in our zone. It's been good to work with
him.
A big portion of the week we have been hauling missionaries to and
from the ferry and the airport as they went to Anchorage to get their
new companions and then headed back to their area. It was kind of
weird because for some of it I was in the car by myself as my comp
drove the other car on the way back haha it was kind of sweet though.
It's been fun though since being here in Juneau. We have met with a
lot of families and one of them is the son to a family that I was
very close with in Cordova and that was awesome to talk with him about
his family and Cordova. The members here are awesome and super excited
about missionary work. We just got another set of missionaries in our
ward so now there are four of us because the work here is really good.
We got to teach the restoration to an investigator named Pama she is a
Samoan girl and the spirit was so strong. We invited her to be
baptized for the 26th of this month so we are super excited to be
working with her and helping her to be ready for that.
Life is good here in Juneau, it definitely rains here.... a lot but
that's chill I have lots of rain gear from Cordova so I think I'll be
okay. I'm just excited to be here and they are putting us to work.
Just in this next week I get to talk in sacrament meeting in both the
YSA branch and then in the ward as well. So that will be good and then
we have a lot of other stuff coming in the next week and then Zone
Conference that we have to start preparing for. My companion and
myself have to give a 40 minute training... yikes we will see how that
goes..
Well this week we also got to go out and see the plaque for the
missionary dedicatory prayer and that was awesome. Cool to see the
history of this mission start right here in Juneau Alaska.
Also on Tuesday we got to go and see John Bytheway who is an LDS
speaker and pretty famous when it comes to missionaries. He was up on
one of the cruises and decided to come and speak to the youth so we
were able to attend and got a pic with him. He is awesome and a great
speaker.
Umm well that's about all I have for this week I hope all is good 😊
Keep the faith
Elder Kayden M. Gentry
Alaska Anchorage Mission
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| Pic with the crew and John Bytheway Aka... jbtwttdubs |
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| Downtown Juneau |
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| Dedicatory Plaque |