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| Enjoying the view in Astoria. |
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| Enjoying the graffiti in Portland! |
WHAT A GREAT WEEK!
NEVER been so busy in all my life & never been so happy. Let me
relate some of the weekly beef / meat locker for you to chow on this upcoming
week. Went on a few exchanges a few hours away one of them being in an old
area. Acted out a skit in primary this week all the while finding some
precious / elect souls to make the day brighter. I am keeping my promises
to drink less diet soda ( for the most part ) and Elder Iler gets my Lord of
the Rings references. I just want to witness to everyone reading this
email that there is a God, there is a Jesus Christ & all of this is
real. He cares & if you want to make your life better try the gospel
on for size. I would be in deep trouble if I denied any of these truths after
the experiences of doing what I do now. I'm serious. Miracles
happen every day. The same miracles that happened in all those legends
you read about in the Bible or other sources. Okay #1 story for the week. Went to Astoria this week for an
overnight exchange with a couple other Elders. Astoria is about two hours
away from where we live and we enjoyed the road trip. This was my first
time seeing the great coastal city of Astoria in all its glory. You would
think you just arrived in downtown San Fransisco or something upon driving into
Astoria. Soon after we arrived we threw on some service clothes to help a
soul in need of some trash-taking-to-the-dump. No joke we showed up at
this house and probably a years worth of old trash sat in the garage.
Spiders the size of Mt Krumpit were climbing out of the bags. This was a
great testimony to me I was serving where I needed to be. Not soon after
seeing / smelling the first gross-ness I was quickly reminded of my prior
experience as a janitor at a junior high school. I threw on some gloves
& went ham on those bags of trash. The other missionaries looked at
me like I was an endangered species. The lady for whom we did service
came outside crying tears of joy because she could not take all this rubbish to
the dump herself & has been very stressed about the whole situation for a
while now. You know that good feeling when you do service for someone
else? OKAY
#2 story for the week. Happened while I was on exchanges down in Portland in the
old Springwater YSA ward. I happened to be on exchanges with two of my
former companions as well :) which was quite a treat itself. Elder
Johansen & Elder Sander-Smith currently reside in the Springwater YSA
congregation watching over the saints in the metro-Portland area. Elder
Johansen my very own son went with me after dinner to a cool lesson. Upon
entering we were graciously given a slice of pumpkin pie accompanied by a tall
glass of ginger ale (non alcoholic okay?) and Elder Johansen told me this
young lady was quite difficult to teach. She apparently closes up when
spirituality comes up. This lesson however was different. We asked
a few questions and she started to open up! elder Johansen was listening
to the spirit like a champion and pulled out a mormon message and the tears
came streaming down. The Holy Ghost was so present in the lesson I may or
may not have attempted to snatch it out of the air and keep it for my own
using. The tears were streaming and I remembered a talk I had
"RANDOMLY" read earlier in the week. Well, here comes more
tears & more spirit. You could tell years of guilt had built up for
this precious young lady. Soon to be removed!!! Elder Johansen
& I downed that ginger ale after a victorious lesson. The feeling is better
than anything else! OKAY #3 miracle
number 3 behind door # 3. Just last night we were on our way to a lesson
& a man pulled up to the house down the street but we were a little late
for our lesson! We ignored the prompting to talk to this man.. At any
rate, we had a good lesson with the man we originally showed up for and upon
leaving the lesson the same man was outside his house down the street. We
followed the prompting this time and walked down to meet these two young
fellas. One of them yelled, "Hey ELDERS!" YEAH... he knew
us. He was a member. He was a member inactive for the past few
years and wanted to sit down and talk with us about what happened to make him
go inactive. How cool is that? How amazing is that?
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