We actually haven’t had much wind here. It’s been breezy but not
windy. Which is good because the other day we took a bike day! It was sooo much
fun! Biking is so much more fun when you actually know how to ride a bike well!
The streets here are perfect for it too because there are only a few main
streets and everything else is residential so you can get where you want to go
by taking side streets because most of them connect. So that is fun.
I got an email from Morgan today and it sounds like he is doing
really well. It really has brightened my day to see everything going on with my
friends. Some getting baptized, lots on missions, it’s so crazy!
It is really crazy that conference has come and gone again. It
was really weird when President Monson said until we meet in 6 months and I
thought... "I will be at home...” It was really crazy. It’s coming quicker
and quicker.
I really enjoyed conference and the values that they talked
about. Mostly what I got out of it was that 1. Families need to be raised in a
Gospel Centered home. 2. Member missionary work is extremely important and 3.
No matter what the world is doing the standards of the church stands strong.
I really enjoyed the talk that President Uchtdorf gave in the
Priesthood session about the 4 names that we have as men and priesthood holders.
I also liked President Monson’s talk on Sunday morning... Mostly because I went
to watch that session with a question in mind that I wanted answered and that
was "How can I become a better/the best missionary I can be?" and his
entire talk was on obedience. It’s interesting because I have been really
working on that and doing even the small things that most people don’t think
matter. Like, Make your bed, Write in your journal, clean your apartment, talk
to EVERYBODY. Things like that and as I’ve been doing that I’ve noticed a lot
more blessings.
As far as things this week we had kind of a rough week for a
couple of reasons… it was transfers and we got a new greenie in our zone and he
and his comp are on bike and had some meetings in R so we were the drivers for
that. Then our brakes were having major issues that presented a very serious
problem haha so our truck got worked on in 2 different shops. Luckily the
second one was close to our house and in our area so we just took a partial
bike day and I LOVED it! I want to take
a bike day at least once a week because our area is really not a hard bike area
at all. So we didn’t really do anything from Tuesday-Friday... it was crazy...
but on Friday we went to see that family of potential investigators we got from
knocking on doors and taught them part of the first lesson, told them about
conference, and set up a time to teach them again. We found out that the mother
is going through cancer right now and her sister in law who is a member is
encouraging her to listen to us. We had a really powerful lesson and promised
her that the gospel would help her through her trials. Not take them away but
give her the strength that she needs to overcome them.
Sunday night we also had a neat experience where we went to see
a member who just got active about a year ago. She is having some difficulties
because her husband won’t come back to church with her and so she is doing it
alone. While we were there she brought up a concern that she was feeling guilty
about something and felt like she shouldn’t pray because of it. We read her 2
Nephi 32:8 and told her never to feel like that. We then had a very spiritual
experience and just let her know that God loves her and she should never leave
him. She talked about how hard of a time she is having and how she feels like
the better she gets the more trials she has and we promised her that the Gospel
would help her through those trials and that if she backed away from the Gospel
she would still have trials but she would no longer have the strength of the
Gospel to help her through them. It was really neat and the spirit was strong.
Well that about sums up our week! Oh yeah funny story though! So
the missionary that is training in our zone is Spanish speaking and I told him.
If you get Elder Graff lets stand up and hug each other in transfer meeting. (That’s
what the trainers do when they get called with their greenies; they get up and
go hug their greenie and sit on the stand.) Well that was while I was sitting
next to him but I ended up getting up and moving to the back side to sit by
Elder U. Well lo and behold Elder C gets Elder Graff as a companion. So I’m
sitting in the back laughing because there are now 2 Elder Graffs in Ontario
and I look up and Elder C is coming up the aisle towards me with his arms open.
So I get up and we hug each other and everyone is laughing and his greenie
looked sooo confused! haha it was super super funny. Anyways there are 2 of us
in Ontario! He is from Washington but has many ties to Santa Clara. crazzy! Well
I love you tons! Have a great week!
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