Hey friends and family!
My
week has been one unexpected circumstance after another. Like I said in
my last email, I've been transferred to Logandale, NV. I cover two
wards - one in Overton and the other in Logandale. My new companion is
Elder Crabb, a missionary from Colorado. We work really well together,
probably better than my last couple companions.
We had some
cool spiritual experiences. The one I will tell you about involves
prayer. So here in Logandale, most everybody's Mormon so it's hard to
find non-members to talk to. We were walking around, and we decided to
say a prayer. After saying the prayer, we contacted and tracted into
member after member. I even told Elder Crabb that I thought my
Spidey-senses were off a little bit. We were walking back to our car
when we saw someone coming are way so we contacted them. They turned out
to be non-members, so we shared a scripture with them. After that, we
asked if they were interested in learning more (they weren't) but they
said their friend Larry might be. So we followed them back to their
house. We met Larry and his dad Robert. Larry is a non-member/atheist
but Robert turned out to be an inactive member of the Church! Robert is
hard to teach, but he said we could come back whenever. Hopefully we
will have the opportunity to teach Larry and Robert so that we can help
them come to church sometime! Heavenly Father literally put us in the
right place at the right time to meet them that day.
We've
also had some interesting adventures. On Friday, we were driving on some
dirt roads and got our car stuck in some really soft sand around 8 pm.
The wheels wouldn't turn so Elder Crabb tried to get the wheels unburied
while I tried to use the accelerator to get us out. Our minivan doesn't
have a 4-wheel drive so we ended up getting pretty stuck.
We got back
on the main road around 9 pm and knocked on a random house for help. An
older-woman answered the door gave us a ride back to our car, and we
ended up knocking on another door. The man who answered is a cop. He
called one of his friends (who just so happened to be the second
counselor in our ward) to come pull us out. We had some crazy
coincidences that led to us getting our car pulled out. It's safe to say
that Heavenly Father was aware of our situation and helped us to be
safe.
In short, missions are awesome. You get the
opportunity to rely on Heavenly Father as much as possible. And the best
part is that he actually responds by giving you what you need.
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