RUNNING AROUND!
Hello everybody!!! Since it was
Labor Day yesterday we couldn’t email so today I will have to be quick but I
can email home real quick!
Here is the week in review:
Monday: P-Day classic! Not much to
do in Mena so we just hung around. Ended up making a rope swing with a youth out here, Brandon
Sibbett.
Tuesday: We went and did a huge
service project for our investigator Sherry! It was a lot of work loading all
of her stuff from a barn into a storage unit and took several trips it was really
hard work. But rewarding. After that we had to rush to the Sibbett house
because they had a big Family Home Evening thing where all the branch came to
their house and some of our investigators, and we taught the Plan of Salvation
and cut out a bunch of pictures and it was a big production haha I forgot to
take a picture though, dang.
Wednesday: Drove 2 hours to Gore,
Oklahoma to help out those missionaries with the work! I got to interview two kids for baptism
which was such a good experience and the spirit was extremely strong in the
interview.
Thursday: Made the two hour drive back home to
work in Mena. We went back to
Sherry's and finished up the service project, finally. It was rainy and stinky and not a whole
bunch of fun hahaha but then we had to go clean out our car completely because
we were getting a new Jeep at zone conference! We had to leave this night to drive an
hour and a half to the Greenwood elders’ apartment to stay the night their
before zone conference.
Friday at 4:45 in the morning: Wake up and shower and make the two
hour drive to Bentonville for zone conference from 8am to 5pm. Ate dinner with President and Sister
Loveland. Made the 3-hour drive home...
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| This darling lady is the Mission Home Secretary, Sister Dora Weiner. She is from Riverton and has looked out for Mikey so much. She sent me this picture yesterday of Mikey and his friend from football, Elder DeGooyer, at their Zone Conference. |
Saturday: Back in Mena for a whole day. Work hard to get everybody to church
the next day, taught an awesome lesson with the Dominguez family and committed
all 6 of them to church!
Sunday: Nobody made it to church...
I took you through the week we had
to show you how crazy life can be on the mission running around especially when
you are the farthest away from any other missionaries you can be in Mena. It can be a little tough and a little
discouraging. However, I never want to be the miner that stops digging just
inches before he hits paydirt! I
know there is somebody out here who will accept our message! And if nobody does
that is okay too, success isn’t measured in a number to the Lord but rather in
your commitment to do what He wants! I know we are doing what He wants!
I read one of my favorite chapters
in the Book of Mormon today 2 Nephi 33, I know that Nephi was commanded to
write on gold plates in 600 B.C. and what a blessing these scriptures are to us
today!
A miracle I didn’t include earlier
is that we have found Webb! He has gone through so much recently and after many
prayers and random acts we ran into Webb outside of a gas station, and he ran
over and gave us big hugs and told us everything that has been going on. We went to see him in his house later
that day and it turns out he is just staying in an old shack that is abandoned.
He is working hard to make enough
money to get an apartment here soon! We are going to see him tonight and their
will be further updates coming soon!
I love you all. I hope you had a great week!
