(Elder Cummings)
Good morning y'all!
This week was an awesome one, I'll just run down just some
of the miracles:
1) Our good friend John decided to treat us again and fixed
some T-bone steak! See the picture below, that was just the first one I had...
2)Except for our church services on Sunday, I don't gotta
wear a mask because I've been vaccinated!
3)On an exchange down in Gonzales, LA me and Elder
Bartholemew held up a sign that simply said in all black letters, "Free
Jesus Book!", in about an hour we had talked to about 15+ people and given
away pamphlets and scriptures and gotten numbers to do some good ol studies
with them. Welcome to the South. *clicking noise and whistle*
4)Zone Conference! We had an awesome zone conference, I am
just in awe about how unified our zone is. That's a miracle itself. So much
love for those good people
5) We had a lesson outside right after church yesterday so
we were in our suits, and Elder Richards spilled this rusty, muddy, liquid all
on himself as soon as we got there as he was moving a lawn chair...literally
the disgusting liquid done wicked right off his suit pants like nothing, and
then it went and stained the concrete without problem
Now for my more favorite miracles:
6)We've been doing some Bible Studies with a sweet lady
named Shontell. She is the definition of Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are they
which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled".
We're having the studies over zoom, and
she is just sitting there with her notebook out taking notes and writing down
all the scriptures we say, and then asks awesome thought provoking questions.
She is the most humble learner ever! So we are teaching the Plan of Salvation
from the Bible with her and she is eating it all up and loves it. She talks
about how it makes so much sense and helps her understand this life more. We
text her the link to the Plan of Salvation pamphlet and invite her to read,
ponder and pray over it. About 15 minutes after the lesson she texts us a
picture of an old beat up physical copy of the Plan of Salvation pamphlet and
is like "I've had this for years! I've been carrying it around everywhere
for so long now, now I know where it comes from!" Turns out she had
somehow gotten a hold of a pamphlet and had kept it all these many years. If
that is not a miracle I don't know what is!
7)So we're in Elders Quorum and our friend(I'll call him
Jerry) speaks up and begins to start crying, he is talking about the support
and love he feels from the church and the experiences he has had here. Jerry
has been attending church every week since October but has not gotten baptized
for various reasons. He suffers from anxiety and other things and so setting a
date for baptism has always been really really hard for him. After Elders
Quorum we walk up to talk with him and he is with two awesome brothers in the
ward and Jerry looks at us and says, "Can I be baptized tomorrow?" It
was SOOOOOOO Awesome! This morning Elder Richards and I woke up, got showered,
and went to get things ready for the baptism. It was beautiful, all the stress
and burdens he had felt seemed to be taken off. You could see it in him. What
adds to this miracle is that just last week I asked my family to keep Jerry in
their prayers and BOOM he receives the strength and confidence he needed to
take the next step! Miracles! And now Jerry has made the most important
decision in his life and will receive greater blessings and happiness than he
ever has!
Because of that, I would like all of y'all to pray for Jesus
and Carolina, they are two kids we are teaching that are being baptized on
Saturday. Please also pray for Dallas, Carolyn and Shontell! Miracles are real,
they just require the faith! I love y'all and hope y'all are fixin to have a
great week
Elder Cummings
Pics!
1. John and the steaks!!
2. Us and the Gumbo!!
3. Ivan and Lisa! The two funniest people in the world
4-5: Zone Conference pics
6: Us and "Jerry"!!
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