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| Enjoying 44 oz of diet Pepsi after a week full of miracles. |
I'm a little bit excited to write this email right
now. The week filled my heart to the brim like a frothy cup of hot
chocolate. I think I had the greatest moment of my mission right before I
drank a 44 oz Diet Pepsi. The Pepsi was the reward for the day. The church
was true this week just like the week before. We spent a day in Gresham
this week and we spent a thanksgiving dinner with a couple of awesome families. Some serious turkey, some serious stuffing, some serious
apples to apples & a lot of gratitude.
Miracle story number 1: Upon
spending our day down in Gresham with a couple of Elders we celebrated one of
the Elder’s birthdays. We went out to lunch and had the greatest miracle of
all my life. We went out knocking doors that night (it was raining pretty
hard and only about 40 degrees. ). No biggie for us missionaries, but most
people don't want to come outside and talk. We knocked about 10 or so doors and
eventually we found a door with the "Jesus fish" sticker on the front
door. Seems like someone that would want to talk? We knocked and no answer... as we walked
away the DOOR OPENED! A little dog ran out as a middle aged man yelled,
"SICK EM!" Honestly I got a little scared but realized he was
just kidding. I also realized the
dog was nice and we went to talk to this guy. He invites us in and we
meet his wife. They sat us down and gave us pie, sparkling water and told
us how much they loved our church. Pictures of Jesus covered all the
walls. Kinda dawned on us... if you love Jesus & you love our church
why haven't you joined? So we asked and
an hour long discussion commenced. No joke she told us every concern she
had. All of which were minuscule. We read John 7:17 with her and invited
her to read the Book of Mormon. A long pause followed... the spirit you
could tell literally penetrated her soul!!!! It was so great and she kept trying to think
of things to say but after a few minutes she just said, "Okay I can't
promise you much, but I will read the whole book once and pray about it.
You also have to let me feed you soon and we can read together". No
one in 20 months has told me they would read the whole Book of Mormon as a commitment.
Greatest day of my life. I have never
seen the spirit work someone over like that. She told us to call the next
day and sent us off with goods & told us she can't wait for us to teach her
whole family. WHAT IF we had given up after the first few doors?
What if we gave up when she told us all her concerns? This family is
going to get sealed together! MARK MY WORDS!!! Miracle number 2: We had a great
thanksgiving. We played in the turkey bowl all morning long with the ward. Tons of less actives came out
to relive their glory days back in high school. No injuries but we got
creamed. I definitely was reliving the high school glory days because we always lost anyway. After that we raked leaves for 2 hours in
the rain. It was a lot of fun because we knocked doors to find a rake and
find some trash bags. After some trench foot and a broken phone we cleaned
up for dinner. Turkey , good times, good spirits and I won playing apples
to apples. Taught some lessons on thanksgiving too! People still
wanted to meet. We had 8 people we are teaching come to church. Before church we visited everyone and told everyone
we saw to come worship & found some success. It was a good time
sitting back and looking at our peeps gathered at church. We kind of felt like momma & poppa hen with our
chicklings gathered at church. Good week.
Good times. Feeling thankful to be alive. It's going to be a white
Christmas in the McLoughlin Ward with some baptisms. I'm trying not to be
too preachy, but this week I learned a lot. I woke up this morning with
some serious revelation. To slow down... just slow down. The spirit
cannot be in the midst of anxiety and stress. If you're life is filled with
both of those take a little time to pray & listen. Actually
listen. I'm talking spend a few quiet moments with the spirit.
Being busy all the time isn't something we should strive for. You don't
want to miss the precious moments with the still small voice. Things will
still get done I promise. OKAY I CANT STAND THE SERIOUSNESS. I
GOT A HAIRCUT today from a lady who had a pet marmot and the blonde hair is
falling all over me. I am about to go win the NBA P-DAY Basketball championship.
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