(Elder Cummings)
大家好!
This week has been as interesting as the last. It all
started as I was getting ready to fly back to Baton Rouge from SLC. I finished
the chest x rays and blood sample for the Taiwan visa and they sent me back to
the airport. And I sat there as my plane got delayed 30 minutes, an hour, 2 hours,
2 and a half hours…Finally, we get on and I fly to my connecting flight in
Houston. I land at about 7pm with 15% phone battery life, no charger, and a
missed flight home. I go to Customer Services and they tell me they have
another flight to BR the next morning but I would have to find a place to
sleep.
So, I say a prayer asking for a miracle. That I would be
able to call and talk with everyone I needed to to work out my travel plans.
For the next 2.5 hours, I am making calls to Mission Travel, the hotel, my
companion in BR, the AP’s, and the bishop in the Alexandria ward...my phone
battery does not go below 15%.
This is where it gets even better. I go out to the hotel
shuttles and I get on the only one without thinking(It’s about 9pm and I have
flown almost 10 hours in the last 24 so cut me some slack). The driver asks me,
“Hilton?” and I realize that I never wrote down the hotel they had booked me
in. I wrote down everything else they had told me but for some reason I didn’t
write which one it was. But I had their number. I showed the man the hotel
number and he pointed at another shuttle that just pulled up. “It’s that one”.
I trust him and hop on. The only other person in the shuttle is the guy that
was sitting next to me the entire flight here, he was in the same boat as I
was. We start chatting and he expresses how he admires the families of our
church and how strong they are. We chat about that and next thing I know we’re
talking about his spiritual journey and I’ve given him a Book of Mormon and the
pamphlets for the first 3 lessons to read. By this time we arrive at the hotel
and continue talking, and I’m able to testify of the Restoration and the Book
of Mormon. It was awesome. I go up to the front desk and check in...the lady
takes a minute and says “Um sir, we don’t have you on here” She looks up the
phone number I have and tells me it’s the Holiday Inn...I was at the wrong
hotel. I talk with Steven(that was his name) a little more and tell him I don’t
believe in coincidences, and that I might have been at the wrong hotel, but I
was in the right shuttle. He agreed and we were both very grateful for our
conversation. I hop on their shuttle, which they were kind enough to drop me
off on the way back to the airport. This whole time I’m just by myself, in the
middle of Houston, with no charger and only with what is in my backpack. I walk
a mile to the nearest gas station and buy a charger and plug my phone in before
I get into bed...it was still at 15%. God works in mysterious ways.
Anyway, I finally get back to BR the morning of transfers
and come home with my new comp Elder Richards! The man is legendary. If you
want to talk about miracles, we’ve been physically out of our area for almost 2
weeks and by the end of this week we had three of our friends accept the
invitation to be baptized. If there is one thing I learned this week it was
that this truly is God’s work. We are just His tools, we just need to be
willing to do the job He is using us for. With humility and faith come more
miracles because we are essentially saying to the Father that “Thy will be
done”.
Elder Cummings
Photos!
1.Bishop and his array of bass he caught years ago(there's 3
more 9 pounders you can't see)
2. Turtle 🐢 round 2, this one is
Reed
3. Went and saw Moana, where this guy we're teaching played
Tamatoa. He Killed it was SO much fun
4. Rescue mission to Natches. Elder Hales is all good, he
just had to get some tests done. But we picked up Elder Owens and he stayed
with us for a couple days
5. The Elders take Alex
6&7. Met with Taiwan missionaries in SLC! Sister
Tagatauli was in my MTC district!
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