"One Year Older and Wiser Too. Happy Year Mark to You" ;)
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| What a Goof Ball! This is the inside of the awesome package Shumways sent him ;) |
Well if it isn’t my family and
friends not being missionaries. How are all of you? haha thank you for all the
love and support!!
So, yes I hit my year mark and to
be honest it feels really good haha just the thought that I actually did it
feels super good and that I have enjoyed and endured it feels really good to
me! Also it is weird to think that on this day next year I will be with all of
you haha. Strange.
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| Some cake and a candle to celebrate! |
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| Which treat to eat first??? |
Any who, this week was an absolute
rollercoaster. The work is still going well but it is just soooo difficult to
find people in this town. We don’t give up and we won’t ever give up but man oh
man it is just hard to find somebody haha and this last week we actually found
people!!! So I could not be happier about that!!!
Sherry, who we have been teaching
and working towards baptism, made it church again this Sunday and we will be
going out to her place to do some service this week and also to teach her a
lesson which I am hoping and praying goes well because she is at such a
critical stage in her life right now!
Unfortunately Webb had a rougher
week. He was kicked out of his house and forced to leave town to stay with a
friend because he lost his job at Davis Brothers as well. We have been in
contact with him and he still has his testimony but is really struggling and
that has been hard to see.
Some other sad news was that I got
a call on Saturday night from a random number and it was Carmel. My long
lost best friend/convert from Tulsa. She had requested to President Loveland
that she could have a conference call with me and Elder Nau. She recently has
been told she only has weeks if not days to live and her dying wish was to talk
to the missionaries that baptized her. It was a tough night hearing that but so awesome to hear her
testimony and joke around and laugh with her again. I really miss my old Mingo Valley area and I was glad to have
made an impact and built a love with somebody. I hope that Carmel can just be at peace and feel good and
healthy whether that is through a healing in this life or by passing to the
next! She is such an awesome lady.
At church this Sunday one of my
closest friends out here and somebody who has helped a lot named Brandon
Sibbett gave his farewell and it was soooo awesome. Even though I hope Brandon doesn’t see this because I would
hate for him to think that I like him... haha Brandon is a 19-year-old out here
and he has got to be one of the funniest people I have ever met and we have
such a good time when he comes on exchanges with us. So anyway, Brandon gave his
farewell on Sunday and it was super cool, he is going to the Sydney Australia
North Mission in a couple of weeks and he has an amazing story that I will have
to tell you all at a later time. But
that was a very good spiritual experience.
I have had so many spiritual
experiences in the past year that are very special and sacred to me, many of
which I choose not to share in casual settings or emails but after this past year
I would just like to bear my testimony that God lives, his Son Jesus Christ
broke the bands of sin and death so that we all may have some hope of happiness
and redemption and exaltation. I have witnessed miracles and the greatest of
those being the day to day change of peoples’ hearts as they draw closer to God
and their Savior! I know it is true and I am grateful for the opportunity I
have to serve! I love you all!!!! :)
Thank you so much to my awesome Mama for the package and all the love she always sends me as well as the rest
of the Fam for the letters, and also Gma and Gpa for the letter. I love you all. Also thank you Shumways for the package
and especially Aubs! I know that took a lot of time and effort and I am so
grateful and feel of all your love and prayers!!!
Shoutout to my man Walbeck for
hitting that year mark with me this week too!!! See you on the flippity flop my
friend!!!
