A great week full of fun

What's good in the hood y'all?

This week for me has been a really fun one! To start it off on Tuesday we went up to Mama Hamils before an exchange with a member and it is one of the best places! It is a southern buffet and it is really good food, not like Golden Corral, it is wonderful! We ate a ton and I didn't eat until the next day for lunch because I was that full! We are going again today with another member and I am excited:)

Also on Tuesday we went on exchanges with the zone leaders and I went with my boy, Elder Scoresby we had a lot of fun and we even participated in the new trend drive by dunking! I will try and get the video but it makes missionary work fun when you can do stuff like it. We also saw a lot of cool people.

Then on Wednesday we had our Zone Conference and that was when I got to see some of my mission buddies. But the best part of the week was our ward activity. It was supposed to be skits like on Saturday Night Live. So all of the missionaries did a skit and it was a ton of fun. We did lip syncing to 4 different songs and the ward loved it. I think that we had the best skit, because that is what everyone was telling us. Luckily people got it on video for us, So I will send that too.

Then on Thursday we went to the Mississippi Food network and they were so happy to see us! It has been a minute since we had been there, so there were a few new female inmates haha, that didn't know us. But it was a ton of fun!

Then on Friday we helped out with the bishop storehouse. After we went and saw Kenneth and we had a very spiritual lesson with him and set him with a baptismal date, for October 28th. I hope that he makes it. He came to church and I think everyone in the ward came up and talked with him it was great! The Stake President even came up to him and asked when his baptism date was and told him that he was going to come. It was a really great week and a lot of fun.

I hope you have a wonderful week:)

Love Elder Corbett

Catfish, collard greens and a day with Elder Monibidor

Good day mates!

This week has just flown by. We have been working pretty hard and also having a lot of fun! I love Elder Deming he is a good guy!

This week we went and tracted for about an hour and a half and no one was answering. I was getting super frustrated because it was a Friday night and everyone should've been home, so we kept going and knocked and knocked. Finally we come to a house with a guy that was sitting outside. We went up to talk to him and his first words to us were not very nice. But I know God lead us to him because he was going through some hard things. I think it helped him to remember God, and all that he has done for him. We got talking with him and his fiance had just broken up with him. We shared a scripture out of the Book Of Mormon and he loved it! He wants us to come back often because he loved the feeling that he had while we were there.

Also this week we went to a southern restaurant. It is called Cock of the Walk and it was really good. It was my first time eating fried catfish and also this decent thing called collard greens. They were actually pretty good. Normally people don't like them. It was a lot of fun.

Then on Saturday I went on an exchange with an African Elder. His name is Elder Monibidor! We had a lot of fun and did a lot of work together. I think we walked about 5 miles in the morning to an appointment that fell through. It was sad but we got blessed for it. We saw an old lady on a porch who I thought was really old, so i just said hello and kept walking to the appointment and on the way back Elder Monibidor, he being out for only 3 weeks, walked through her yard climbed up on her porch and introduced himself. We sat down and taught her. It was great!

Also later on that day, we went and saw Kenneth. This time we are taking a different approach because he has depression and a few other mental things. We went and played Uno with him and listened to him play the saxophone. It was really good. He did want to come to church with us, but sadly we couldn't find him a ride because he lives about 24 miles from the church. But we will get him next time:)

Also I called Dale last night because it was one year from when he got baptized and he told me that he is going to general conference and that he will be receiving his endowment next week!!! I was so hyped!:) But anyways that is all for me!! I hope y'all have a good week.

Love,

Elder Corbett

Raytown Branch

What up Y'all? How it is? (lol the language of the South)

I am doing well, and yeah I have been hearing a lot about Hurricane Irma. The priesthood in the ward went down to Houston this past weekend and it was crazy! It is crazy how much these hurricanes affect the people around them. We were checking out gas prices as we needed to fill up our car, and since the last time we filled it up, the prices have jumped up 40 cents!! That is crazy, I am wondering if this is God trying to wake up the people to remember Him and turn their ways around. It seems like sometimes in the Book of Mormon that he does that to the people to stir their hearts back to Him.

This week for me has been a super crazy one!! I swear it has just flown by! So last Tuesday was our p-day and then on Wednesday we had district meeting! Then on Thursday our mission president had a district leader conference!! It was so much fun. We started calling it a district Leader retreat because it felt more like a retreat. We all arrived in Madison at 4:30 and then they drove us up to Raytown, which is a small branch building. They had a barbecue, and we just hung out for about an hour-and-a-half and talked. I got a chance to catch up with a few mission buddies! After that, we had a little meeting where our mission president taught us a about the history of the little branch and how much sacrifice and how many miracles it took to keep it standing! Then after we got bused back and we got back pretty late to the apartment that I was staying at. I guess if you are with your mission president, rules go out the window... haha just kidding.

The next morning we all had to get up at 5:00 so that we would be able to get out of the door by 6:40. This was with 11 people in a 2 bathroom apartment. Talk about a short shower. Then we actually had our conference and we were able to learn a lot about how we could improve and be better district leaders and help those that we are over. I am very grateful for the opportunity I had to learn a lot. I really wish I had that chance to learn earlier on when I first became a district leader. But eventually it ended and we headed back to our area.

On Saturday, Elder Deming and I went and tried a bunch of our investigators thinking that it would be a good day to catch them and invite them to the other Elder's baptism. We literally walked 5 miles in about 3 hours and no one answered... or wasn't home. I was so sad. But It was nice to see that others in our district had success that day! The Jackson North Elders got a baptism and after we went to Wendy's to celebrate and we got frosties and played risk in the middle of Wendy's. It was pretty funny, and a lot of fun!! Then on Sunday we only went to sacrament meeting it was actually really neat!

I hope all is well with you!! I miss y'all and hope to hear from you!

Love Elder Corbett

1 Elder Hubert and I. He came out with me!

2 Elder Hubert, Elder Wandry and I. Some of my mission buddies.

3 Guest Star, President Olson, who jumped in on the pic!

4 Playing Risk at Wendy’s

5 The new thing called the Batmanning!

6 2 Elders that are in my district

This is the Raytown Branch building. It is a very small building and over 100 years old. It was built in 1906 and was bought by Joseph F. Smith for 10 dollars cash and was the first LDS church building in Mississippi. The early missionaries would meet there for mission conferences. It was not used for a number of years and then the church came and decided to restore it. During the dedicatory prayer when it was first built it was said that the building would be there until the millennium. Since that time several tornadoes have come through the area and jumped the building leaving it unharmed. There have also been wild fires that would stop just before the building.

Hurricane Harvey

This week was a good one! I hiked the water tower last p-day with a young man from our ward and that was fun. Then we said goodbye to all of the members because Elder Conger would be transferring. On Tuesday I shipped him off to some area and I got Elder Deming. He is a really cool guy. He is from Dallas Oregon and we have had a good time so far.

I am still the district leader and now I am over a district of all elders. I couldn't be more happy. Sister missionaries can be tough to deal with, so this was an answer to many prayers.

This week we tracted a ton of hours and we got rained on by Hurricane Harvey. I don't know why everyone was freaking out about it. It wasn't even that bad in my area. But I know that we experienced a little part of it. I am sad for the people that got hit hard. But I hear that we are about to get hit by some tropical storm and that it is going to tear up the South.

Lately we have been knocking in areas that say no soliciting and technically missionaries aren't soliciting but people still get way mad at us sometimes. But it is the work of the Lord that we are doing so it must go on. The one really funny thing is that we were knocking, and this lady asked me where I was from. I told her Utah and she asked me how many Mom's I had. It was really funny but we resolved her concern and now she is doing better. Sorry nothing too noteworthy happened. Next week will be a lot better!!

Love Elder Corbett