Saturday, November 24, 2012

Email Nov 20 2012


I’m really excited for Thanksgiving! We got invited to a few people’s homes. We are playing football with the stake in the morning and then there are a couple people who are having late Thanksgiving meals on like Saturday that invited us. We even had a Thanksgiving meal last night! ahhh it’s so good!

 

I can’t believe it’s already week 5 of the transfer! It’s going way fast. Today we are going up with some other missionaries to Lake Arrowhead to go visit around the village and look at all the shops and just have a relaxing pday. It’s been kind of funny because Elder H and I have been trying to work on our Spanish. I can now pray in Spanish. Not well. But it’s getting there! haha I’m going to keep practicing. It will be useful if I can learn Spanish.

There’s another Kevin Graf??? woah!

 

Well this week was pretty good! We had a couple really awesome experiences. One was when I was tracting with Elder N. We go up to our first door and Elder N knocks. Nothing. He knocks again. Nothing. He knocks one last time and waits and then goes to put a card on the door and all of a sudden somebody knocks from the other side. It took us by surprise but I thought it was funny so I knocked back in a little beat. Then he knocked again. After that we just waited for a minute and a younger guy opened the door and was like "hey you didn’t finish the beat." We all laughed and then started to share a little about our message. He told us he is a big believer in Jesus and asked if we had any reading material so without hesitation Elder N asked him if he had heard of the Book of Mormon. We then explained what it was and asked him to read Moroni’s promise and then got his info to come back. We bore our testimonies to him and Elder N stuck a pass along card in the Book of Mormon on 2 Nephi 33 and asked him to read it and he asked if we were thirsty, got us some water and while we drank the water he stood there and read the chapter. After he finished he said he really liked what he had read and wanted us to come back. It was sooooo neat and the Spirit was sooo strong. After that a little ways up the street there were a couple of kids trying to get a couple of balls out of a tree we asked if they wanted help. Turns out they had a basketball, a soccer ball and 3 footballs all stuck in this big ol tree. So Elder N got one football out and the basketball out and then Elders H and P showed up and Elder H got one of the other footballs out and was working on the soccer ball and I was trying to get the highest football. Finally we were going to just give up and go but we both gave them one more shot. I threw the basketball up and hit the football out! But that’s not all. The basketball came back down, bounced twice and swooshed into the basketball hoop! Haha that couldn’t be repeated if I tried the rest of my life!

 

Not too much else was really neat this week. We did get to go with our ward down to Redlands temple and set up the manger scene they have out and that was super fun. Sadly I forgot my camera but when we go back to the temple to help clean it in a couple weeks I’ll take some pictures. Well that was pretty much the highlights from our week! Love you tons!

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