Alright, well first things first- I am being transferred! I will be
splitting Newcastle, so I'm excited about that! It's so weird to me... I'm going
to have to grow up here shortly! Haha but I suppose that's not the worst thing
that could happen.
So this week was amazing! Wednesday we had a
really great experience! We went to Newcastle to work a bit and we stopped by a
part member/less active's home and talked to them a bit. It was cool because she
(the nonmember) talked about how prayers are answered and I just felt like I
should share the experience about when I had a priesthood blessing and it healed
my ankle. So I shared it and she asked, "What's the priesthood?" So we taught the
restoration and things went great! It was really cool to see how the member
still has a testimony, it's just buried pretty deep. He did a great job of
helping us teach though! It was funny. I guess it dawned on her that only men
could hold the priesthood so while we were talking she just said, "Chauvinist pigs!!!" Haha so we explained that, but the husband came to the rescue and said, "You need to meet some of the women of the church. It's amazing how strong they
are and how important they are to the church. We'll have to go sometime so you
can see." He was telling us he struggled with the fact that we have so many
commandments and that's why he left the church. He still reads the Book of
Mormon and everything, but he said that Christ died for us because we can't keep
all the commandments. But right before we left he said, "You know I will say
this, when I was going to the Mormon church, even when I didn't agree with a lot
of the stuff, I felt like I was blessed more then than any other time in my
life." So we're hoping that they progress! And they're in Newcastle so I'll be
able to keep up with them!
Friday I was on an exchange and we had a
few cool experiences. The coolest one was we just stopped and talked with a lady
on the street and we asked if we could pray with her. She said yes and when we
asked what we could pray for she said she needs help getting over the loss of
her son, so comfort and that she'll be able to get on with her life. So after
the prayer we just started talking to her and stuff and told her that the
message we share can help her understand where we're from, why we're here on
this earth, who we are, and where we're going after this life. She wasn't living
in either of our areas, so we told her that if she looks up the missionaries
where she's living that they will help bless her life. We gave her a Book of
Mormon and explained it, and she said she'd read it! It was just such a cool
conversation, and we're really hoping she reads!
Saturday we taught
someone that Elder Owen found while on his exchange. He's
such a nice guy! He's covered in prison tattoos though and can't drive for 10
years so we're wondering if we'll even be able to teach him or what's going on
with that, but we'll teach him until we're told not to! He said he wants to get
to know God so that he doesn't go to hell when he dies, and he wants to know how
to read a Bible. We had him read a verse for us in the lesson and he pretty much
can't read. He doesn't know who Moses is, or Noah, and he's in a really rough
situation in his life, but he wants to make a change, and wants to come to
church. He'll be someone that I hope Elder Owen doesn't give up on! We don't
know if we can baptize him, but I'd imagine that someone who wants to change as
bad as he does will be ok. I wish I could teach him more! Like with him it's
starting at the basics, and helping him understand God's love for him, and I
think that would be so much fun to teach him and watch that change his
life!
Yesterday we taught the L family. Oh my gosh that
family is so prepared! So the dad was telling us about a dream that he
had. He said that someone told him to put his face up against a rock, and a huge
tsunami came and crashed down on them, and it washed everything away but his
family was still pressed up against the rock and they were ok. So the scripture
Helaman 5:12 says, "And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the
rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your
foundation;
that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the
whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it
shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless
wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a
foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall." So we shared that with him
and his eyes just lit up! It was so cool! And he shared a couple other dreams in Spanish with the branch mission leader so I couldn't
understand them, but still the dream he had was unbelievable! Hahaha I was
sitting there like, "I had a dream I was a Powe Ranger once..."
Haha
Anyways, they're all just so in tune with the Spirit, and
they're just so solid! So we set a date with them for October 13! We're so
excited for them! They've been so prepared it's not even funny! I just love how
Christ's promise worked in their life. "Seek and you shall find." Like he knew
his family needed to be baptized, but he knew he needed to find the right church
first, and he knows this is the true church. He's read the Bible 4 times! Haha
it was funny though one of the first questions he asked us yesterday was if we
celebrate Halloween. He said that if we celebrated Halloween then they were
never coming back. Haha but the mission leader did a great job of explaining how
the church isn't an institution that controls every decision. It gives
guidelines and the father is the patriarch of the home and that they choose
for their family what's appropriate. Haha the other funny thing was he heard we
have multiple wives so we told him no and his wife said, "I said I don't care if
they do, just make me the queen wife and you can have one to cook and one to
clean and one to do laundry" hahaha and she was like totally cool with that
idea! Haha oh man I just love that family! I'm excited to still be in the branch
so I can watch them progress!
That's about it for this week though.
It was a pretty big week! I'm hoping that this week will be a good one. Going to
be knocking on a ton of doors! Haha but that will be good for the new missionary
right? Well for me too. Haha but I'll be in a bike area for the next while! That
will be exciting as well! I'll be out in the cold biking around. Doesn't that
just sound right up my alley? Haha I'm hoping to that this week is successful so
we have a ton of investigators again so I won't have to be out in the cold
knocking doors! Haha we'll see what happens though.
Alright well
I'm going to get going. Hope all is well back home! Pray for me because I'm
going to need all the help I can get! Have a great week!
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