(Elder Cummings)
This week was a good one y’all! And we’re fixing to have an
even better one this time round. Welcome to story time with Elder Cummings, the
part of the week where Elder Cummings shares a story:
So Elder Schugk and I are street contacting, we’ve been out about
an hour and we’re gonna have to be getting back to the apartment soon. Haven’t
had much success at all. We turn left and start walking back to the car
disappointed but not discouraged! Elder Schugk turns to me and points back to
where we came from and asks, “have we gone that way?”. Me, not thinking
anything of it cause Elder Schugk is surprisingly bad with directions, says,
“Elder we just came from there”. Confused he says, “oh, okay”. We walk for
about 5 more seconds when he turns around and says, “No. We need to go this
way”. Trusting this isn’t just Elder Schugk’s lack of directional awareness
now, I gladly follow him.
We’re walking and walking (but we don’t knock down their
wall! Kidding joke joke) and we don’t see anyone...until a couple walking two
Huskies turns onto our street! Duh, duh duhhhhhh. They have nowhere to go,
nowhere to turn, it’s just them and the Mission Mormonaries.
In all seriousness we are now convinced that these are the
people we need to talk to because our car is just another 40 ft past them and
we needed to leave. We stop and get to know Branch and Michelle for a good bit.
Turns out they had seen us about 30 minutes earlier and Michelle had the
thought to come talk to us but she didn’t want her dogs to bother us(nicest dogs
ever by the way) so they turned down a different road. Now here we are, talking
with them, only because Elder Schugk had the prompting to go back the long way,
the way we just came. Turns out Branch and Michelle have 7 kids, and are super
interested in what we believe in as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints. We had a wonderful opportunity to testify of the Restoration
of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and eternal families and we were all convinced in
the end that we needed to meet them and they needed to meet us.
It is my testimony that we need to be constantly putting
ourselves to receive revelation or we are missing chances to hear Him. We need
to be living worthily of His Spirit as well as actively seek it. The scriptures
says “and he that seeketh, shall find”, it doesn’t say “and he that slacketh
shall find”. I am grateful that my companion was actively seeking guidance and
revelation from the Lord. It is a blessing to me, Branch and Michelle, and the
Lord.
Have a blessed week y’all!
Elder Cummings
Photo DUMP:
-there was a classic car show here in town so we used it as
an opportunity to go talk with people, met some cool people and saw some cool
cars!
-pretty cool sunset
-the Aucoins("Oh-Quons") a legit Cajun family in
Zachary. All those selfies are from inside Brother Aucoins' shed where he cooks
all his Cajun food. So hype
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