This week has been another busy one, jumping from driving to
biking, from lesson to lesson to service to lesson all over the place. What a
blessing it is to have a lot to do in the mission field! Because we had a lot
of lessons I have a lot of stories, but I'll only share a couple:
We show up at Joseph's house and he's like "yeah guys I
mightve broken my foot" as he's walking perfectly fine towards us. Turns
out while doing some demolition and trying to be a big boy hunked a massive
piece of concrete and it landed on his foot. He said he's fine but the guy
definitely broke it. After that we sat down and had an AWESOME lesson. He had a
ton of questions about the Book of Mormon and the Bible and expressed sincere
interest in the Holy Spirit. He's awesome!
We're teaching a friend of my brother's over zoom! Talk
about a guy who is letting God prevail in their life. 1)he's a genius and does
tons of research on stuff but still holds his own spiritual experiences as
greater evidence than anything. 2) when asked if he wanted to get baptized, he
was like "you know what, if God desires it of me, then it is something I
should do". The guy's a beast!
This week we had a goal of 6 new people (people with whom we
have a lesson and then a follow up lesson scheduled). Sunday morning we had 4
new people and had lessons scheduled and plans to get our last 2 people with
return lessons. Unfortunately, all of our plans fell through on Sunday and we
were left sitting at 4. But when we were gonna do some companion study I was
like "hey let's do it at the park". We head over there and started
talking with two young kids, then we start passing the football with them and
then start playing with them. Later we went to finish our study and they come
back and ask if they could join our Bible Study. We were like "oh yeah!
What do y'all want to talk about?". Long story short Keedin and King loved
talking with us and we loved talking with them and ended up teaching them about
Christ and how we live his Gospel. We had a lot of fun and we agreed to meet at
the park the next day at 5pm(today). Afterwards Elder Christensen was like
"whoa they're two new people". And I was like "whoa they're two
new people". It was so cool and such a tender mercy on our lives. Obviously,
our goal of 6 people isn't super important and it's just a goal we set. But we
set it with real intent and did what we could to reach it and God saw fit to
bless us for our efforts. So cool!
I love the phrase used in Ether 6, when the Jaredites are
about to set out across the ocean in their barges. It says that "set forth
into the sea, commending themselves unto the Lord their God". What a
beautiful phrase, they completely turned to the Lord and relied on Him to
deliver them. When we all commend ourselves to the Lord we are expressing our
desire and willingness to follow Him and to "let God Prevail". It's
the way to live a happy, purposeful life so don't miss out and just let God
prevail in your life!
Also don't miss the amazing opportunity to hear global faith leader and prophet and president of our church, President Russel M Nelson this Friday at 12pm(CT)!!!!! It's only gonna be 15 minutes of hope and healing!
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/message-coming-nov-20-hope-healing-president-nelson
For all the people who wanted it last week, here's the
dumpster chair I fixed up last week...the hydraulics are broken, lost it's
fluid or something, but I fixed the recliner using some screwdrivers and some
WD-40, made the armrests stay on with an old innertube, and stuffed it with
some old blankets where it was missing stuffing. Don't worry I've washed it...
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