(Elder Cummings)
Alright y'all!
So we're at the miracle park. The same park at which we were
invited to join the Carter Family Reunion, and the same park where we have been
able to find 7 new people. It's the promised court people.
Anyway, we get there to meet and do a study with one of our
friends and we realize we forgot our basketball. Rip. Devastating. Of course we
don't need the ball to find but we figured it be good to have it. Elder Schugk
and I have the bright idea to pray for the ball. We both believed that if we
needed the ball to find someone, and if we had the faith, the Lord would
provide a ball. As absurd as that divine teleportation might sound, anything is
possible with God, plus President Nelson has invited us to do things that
require more faith in order to grow our faith. So we're sitting in our RAV4
putting our whole hearts into it as we "waxed bold in mighty
prayer"(2 Nephi 4:24). We end the prayer, walk confidently to the trunk
and open the it…
And to our surprise, there was no ball...dang. Not enough
faith I guess. Kidding kidding. Maybe. We then figure that we don't need the
ball for what the Lord needs us to do that day. Maybe that's just us making an
excuse for our lack of faith.
We end up having an awesome study with our friend Cam and
it's cut short by some people saying there was shooting going on so we make
like a tree and leaf. There wasnt, but we were being safe.
That evening we block out 2 hours to do some street
contacting. We had this neighborhood planned out and everything, we were gonna
find the elect guys. But as we were praying we felt to go knock on a ladies
door in the complete opposite direction, there wouldn't be time to do both. We
head to the ladies house. Knock 2x. No answer. Disappointed but not
discouraged. But we were there for a reason, we knew it!!
We kept walking around and see a group of about 7 or 8
little kids balling up on a driveway, we talk and ball with them for a couple
minutes and then the little ones go inside, we are chilling with our friend
Matthew and Quindarius Deon Ross(i just had to say his full name, so cool). We
tell them that if we block them each one more time then we get to share a
scripture. They agree. Man I tried to stuff them so hard. I got Quindarius.
Anyway, they end up winning and ask to hear the scripture anyway. We share 3
Nephi 11 from the Book of Mormon and discuss Christ's gospel for all of us. We
end up having an amazing discussion and they're super interested and we'll be
meeting with them this Friday before Matthew starts college at LSU. As we walk
away, Elder Schugk looks at me and says, "hey, we got our ball". So
good.
Of course you could say that was a coincidence. If it was,
so what. All I know is that we were guided to the right place at the right
time, we ended up being able to play basketball with some people who would
listen to us when we had prayed for it earlier, and these people want to learn
more about Christ's gospel. To me, prayer=answered.
I know God answers our prayers, and He will answer them
according to His will and His timetable. But I also have a testimony that
through prayer we can obtain blessings that are only made conditional on our
asking for them. Our God is a Loving God, one invested in us.
Have a blessed week!
Elder Cummings
Photo: recognize this hat Stacey?
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