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| New missionary luncheon October 2016. |
WHAT A good week in Vancouver not even kidding. Some
real miracles occurred during church this week & some real opposition is
happening with those we teach. Learned some lessons, shaved with a bar of
soap, drank some purple dragon drink, ate some jambalaya, felt the spirit and
was overall just happy this week. Let me see if I can relate some of the
recent events. Okay miracle #1: Yesterday
morning we woke up to receive two texts saying "sorry I can't come to
church today I'm not feeling good". This dampened our spirits a little...
we felt rambunctious enough though, to visit both of these people that decided
not to attend church, on hopes we could persuade them to come. While
visiting the second man with no success in getting him to come, his neighbor walked in
the door & began listening to us. We started teaching his neighbor a
month ago, but the day before he said he would no longer like to meet with
us... with the spirit of feeling rambunctious we just asked him if he
would want to come to church with us. And much to our surprise he said, "yep,
let me go get ready". We were an hour early but we didn't want to leave
& give him a chance to have something come in the way of getting to
church. We took him an hour early and hung out with him in the lobby
until church started. It was great. During church kids ran amuck!
About 3 kids fell off the seats on the ground and a lady wanted to bear her
testimony but she was in a wheelchair and no ramp lead to the pulpit.
They rigged up a microphone, but the cord made sounds like a herd of elephants
during three people's testimonies. It was a priceless testimony meeting, but the man we brought to church said, "I
love kids. This is perfect". God knows His children :). This man
decided to meet with us again and work towards baptism. You go figure out
the odds of him walking in right as we showed up on Sunday morning! Okay next story: Let me tell you how
great the members are out here in Vancouver. One member figures out my
Dad is from Louisiana and the member makes a homemade Louisiana dish! Got
some jambalaya for dinner and I couldn't have been happier. The church is
true my friends the church is true. Short story but it's like home away
from home. (Still wasn't as good as yours Dad) Okay next cool story: Alright we found a
family through doing service. We literally went out for the day and the
first house we knocked on was a family that needed help moving stuff.
They looked at us and said to each other "thank the heavens these guys
have a truck". Yes, we have a truck. We helped them that day and a
couple days later we came back to move a large basketball standard which was
quite heavy. The stars aligned and they invited us over to figure out why
we do what we do. Why a couple loonies in white shirts would stop in the
rain to help a family move a basketball standard across town? We came
back and taught the whole family about Joseph Smith and the kids asked us the
question, "do you guys ever go to sleep?" & "are you two
dating?" It was so crazy. The spirit was tangible. I
tried to grasp it. Greatest week of my life until next week. Have a good
one inhabitants of the earth. P.S.: I asked a sister missionary to take a
candid picture of Elder Iler & I looking important in front of the mission
president’s wife. What do you think?
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