(Elder Cummings)
Hey y'all!
Don't have a lot of time so I'll be quick. This week was awesome, my new comp Elder Rands is an absolute beast and the best greenie I could ever ask for. He makes training so easy and he pushes me and makes me a better missionary and that's all I can ask for. He's also a scrumptious cook and I didn't even ask for that so that’s wonderful.
One day this week we were calling a member that we hadn't talked to or seen in a long long time and we're just like "Hey! What's up how are y'all doing? How can we help?" And chatting it up. The whole shebang. Then she was like "Well...do y'all like crawfish?"
Next thing I know is I am biking, leaving Elder Rands in the dust on our way to his very first Crawfish Boil. Or as I learned from a drunk guy, pronounced "Burrl". Two r's or you're saying it wrong. It was awesome we get there, chat it up, get to know everyone and start chowing down on some handpicked Guatemalan crawfish. Though I guess you can't really chow down on crawfish. Sucking down on crawfish sounds weird so let's just say we were feasting on crawfish. Considering Elder Rands had just cooked some homemade fried chicken we were both amazed we ate so much and hadn't had the meat sweats yet. Good times.
Just remember y'all, Paul's message to the Corinthians, "I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase"(1 Cor 3:6). I have seen in multiple ways this week, too many to describe full, that planting seeds is a very real thing. The sister that had us over for the burrl only had us over because during Christmas time some missionaries in uptown New Orleans remembered their names and made their kids' day. A man we know, once swore to never talk to a missionary again, but after we did service for his daughter a couple times, he now contacts us and has us over to help him from time to time and is so much fun. It happens, we are tools in the Lord's hands. And then, eventually, when the time is right, people are in a position to fully and wholeheartedly accept Christ and His Gospel into their lives. We can plant, someone else can water, but in the end it's all thanks to God.
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