(Elder Cummings)
大家好！
So Elder Christensen is out and we got.......Elder Pratt!
Turns out I might only have him for a few more weeks though cause we just sent
his visa application for South Korea in today. I was getting very used to
looking over my 5' 4" companion and now I got 6' 3" Elder Pratt
looking down on me so that's a change. We were driving home from transfers and
I was like "so how long do you have in the mission?" And he looks at
me and says "9 weeks". So. Basically I'm unofficially finishing his
training even though I'm only 2 weeks older than him in the field? But it's
been awesome, the guy is learning Korean! There's only 1 other Korean speaking
missionary in the mission and no other Mandarin speakers so we're pretty
special...
This weekend we had an awesome miracle. We were just calling
some people who had requested visits from us and whatnot (usually not super
fruitful, most them say they never filled one out or they don't remember even
though you have to fill out your number, name and address to even submit it). Nevertheless
it's exciting cause you don't know what personalities you'll run into over the
phone. We called this one lady and I introduced ourselves and asked how she was
doing. She just said "bad" and I was like "oh man, im so sorry
what can we do for you this evening Wendy?" And she straight says
"you can never call this number again, bye" and just ends the call
there. Super epic. A couple minutes later we get a call back from Wendy's
number...I answer it. I'm just sitting there sweating as I pass through the
slowest couple seconds of silence in my life... All I hear is "Hey it's
Wendy" I'm just thinking that she's gonna roast me again but she doesn't
say anything so I say "Wendy you know you just told us to never call you
again right?" Anyway she had called back to figure out why I had said
"I'm sorry" so I told her I THOUGHT she said she was doing bad but
she was doing BLESSED! We both started laughing it was soooo funny.
We just start chatting and talking and have a really nice
conversation. She had an aneurysm about a decade ago and it permanently damaged
most of her left side and left her in a coma for 2 months. After she recovered
she felt that God was giving her a second chance to be with her family with her
husband and 4 kids. She's super funny and wanted to meet with us to hear our
Christmas message and so we could share our testimonies with each other. We
both agreed God must've made me mishear what she said cause that's the main
reason she called back cause she was super confused. We're meeting her and her
family tonight!
Merry Christmas Y'all!
Elder Cummings
Photo!
1. Just Joel, Elder Pratt and I in a nice wide-angle selfie
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