Okay,
this week was crazy! It started off with a day that was 70 DEGREES?!?! Seriously,
I felt like I was in heaven. And ON that day, we got 3 headquarter referrals,
and a few more as the week went on! That rarely happens here, and we actually
picked several of them up and they want to learn more about the gospel! If
anyone wants a free Bible or Book of Mormon, missionaries are the ones to drop
them off ;)
PLUS, we went tracting
and ran into this nice guy. He had met with missionaries a few years ago but
moved abruptly and lost contact with the church. SO, imagine his surprise when
we come up and knock on his door and ask if he’s talked to missionaries before!
He remembered everything about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and whatnot
from before, and he’s just about the sweetest guy on the planet! He’s a Blackfoot
Indian and gave us feathers! We've taught him a few times already.
We've been teaching this
one investigator a lot. He’s been trying to quit smoking but keeps hitting a
brick wall. One day we go to see him and he’s just lying on the floor of his
living room in crazy pain, we were talking to him through the screen door and
got the mission doctor on the phone to talk to him. We thought it was
appendicitis or something so we're worried and impatient as we wait for the
result. He gives us our phone back and tells us that it’s apparently a pulled
muscle in his ribs. How did he pull a muscle, you ask? From COUGHING SO MUCH
FROM SMOKING!! We felt so bad, but we chuckled, it was almost too perfect. Needless
to say, he has NOT had as strong of a desire to smoke this week. Blessings in
disguise. We had a few cool lessons with him as well, on repentance and faith
and all those good things. It’s nice to know that we can always be forgiven
when we fall short.
In our first week in the
area, we met this lady who liked to talk about the resurrection and the
creation. As the last 3 months progressed, we slowly find out that she’s
actually a member of the church, has been to the temple, was super active in
the church, but left for a different church, and said she'd never come back.
That is, until we went over again on Saturday. She started crying and told us
how must she missed the church, missed the Spirit, missed how beautiful the
gospel is. And she, this very emotional super kind-hearted women CAME TO CHURCH
ON SUNDAY!! Wow, I wish I could describe how insane this is. She has come SUCH
a long way! It was a great way to end my time here, because…..
… transfer calls came
in.... and I’m getting transferred :( They
have changed the way we find out about transfers; I don’t know where or who I’m
going to be with, I’ll find out Wednesday, since transfers also got moved back
a day since the incoming missionaries‘ flight got cancelled...
Funny story, I found out
about transfers during Stake Conference, since that’s when the calls came in,
so the Zone Leaders just decided to tell us then instead of calling us all
later, and I started crying, and a member went and YELLED AT THEM! As if they
had anything to do with the fact that I was leaving, ha ha. And all this
happened in front of the Mission President and wife, who looked very concerned
for my well-being.
I know it’s God’s will
and whatnot, but I will really miss this area :( Anyways, I don’t have much time left, but a
member of the Seventy (can’t pronounce his name..) came for stake conference
and spoke a lot on the narrow path that leads us back to God. I really like how
he said that no matter how crooked the path behind us may be, it’s never too
late to make it straight again. God is always there to help us back on the path
when we need to, we can always change!
SORRY THIS IS CHOPPY, I LOVE YOU, WISH ME LUCK WHERE EVER I’M GOING!
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