This week has kind
of made me freak out because it is now the year when I come home and I have now
been a missionary in 2015 and 2016... that’s really weird for me to think about
haha. Time is flying.
Last P-day we
kind of sacrificed our whole day to go and give service to a member who needed
a huge boiler moved into his basement. I need to stop telling people that I
used to play football, then they just use you to pick up heavy stuff haha, it’s
even worse when your companion is a signed BYU football player haha. It was
great though we had a good time and were able to share a thought with them and
it made p-day a super good day.
This week I had
one of the funniest and memorable things happen to us. We were tracting and
when we tract one person is talking to the people on the phone outside the
building and the other is streeting and talking to people on the street. So
Elder Gentry stops this old lady and we start talking to her. She turns out to
be a Jw and is actually really nice. So it wasn’t too bad, but she distracted
us because out of no where two cops walk up behind us and are like... boys what’s
going on here... so I was like well we represent our church and tonight we are
talking to people about our religion. THE COPS KNEW WE WERE MORMONS. Best day ever.
Anyway, they asked to see that we had the right to be going house to house and
talking to people on the street and so we showed them our little paper that we
have to have with us and the cop didn’t even read it because he saw that the
date on it was in English so he gives it back and says this doesn’t work and
then goes off using really law oriented words and I was like okay I didn’t understand
that fully so I called our mission President which was what we are supposed to
do and he talked to them. So we got in a conversation with the other cop and
she was actually really nice. She was really curious about what we do and where
we came from and why we even did it. We had a great conversation with her and
when the other cop came back we showed him the paper that we have again and
then he finally read it and said... oh yeah this is perfect, thanks have a
great night and left. So funny such a waste of time! I forgot to tell you the
best part too. During all this the lady that called the cops on us comes out of
the building and starts freaking out on us and is saying all this stuff about
how no one wants to talk to us and how it’s not even worth it and why we are bothering
others and the cop just shut her down and was like... these are two really good
kids and you need to go back inside mama. So great. So I can officially say
that I had the cops called on me. whoohoo.
This week was
full of miracles. We were able to meet with a couple people that have not been
able to meet in a very long time and we were able to have amazing teachings
with them. In one of the teachings we were teaching about the plan of salvation
and it was very powerful. The plan of salvation is very special to me and is
one of the biggest reasons why I am serving a mission because I want others to
be able to live with their families forever. During the teaching our
investigator said to us that she just feels so happy when we meet and she cannot
explain the feeling that is in her heart. We were able to testify that that
feeling in her heart was the Holy Ghost testifying that what we taught was
true. It was a really amazing teaching. We are planning on meeting with her
this week and extending a baptismal date.
On new years
we decided to look up
an old investigator that we have not met with in 4 months because every time we
went over she was not home and never answered when we rang. This time she
answered the phone! She let us in and we were able to have a quick conversation
with her and we were able to talk about how the last year had been for her. She
told us that it was one of the hardest years in her life and when she thought
back on the year she remembered us and thought about how good she felt when she
talked to us. We didn’t stay long because she had guests coming over to her
house but we are planning on going back and teaching her this week! It was an
amazing blessing.
Also, this
week we went on splits and I was able to work with Elder willes. He is this
hilarious kid from Cali and he is a total Cali bro. He plays lacrosse and surfs
and so we had a super good time together. He even can recite 1/3 of the pirates
of the Caribbean movie out of his head so I pretty much watched that this week.
It was so cool.
After that we
had a super cool thing happen when we went to a members house and when we
walked in she had invited a friend and we are now going to be meeting with him
and helping him to quit smoking. How cool is that? The lord really does just do
the work for us if we are worthy. So we had a lot of cool miracles happen this
week.
New years
here is for real insane. People just blow up stuff on the streets and drink a
lot. So we made sure to be inside. We were walking down the street and these
kids far off in the distance light something and throw it and we see it like 50
yards away and we are like what is going on... and them boom... huge explosion.
Like the loudest firecracker I have ever heard! It was nuts haha. So that’s
about how my new years was. Being inside and then waking up the next day and
seeing all the frozen throw up on the ground... people like to drink here.
Sorry if that was tmi. It was freezing on Sunday though. -13!! So everything
was frozen including us.
Well I want
to finish with a quick thought about what we read today for companion study. We
read from Joseph Smith history and it was really interesting. He went through
so many trials even when he was a little boy. I feel like I need to be more
grateful that I am not 14 and how I am having it easy compared to him. With
this New Year I am wanting to work on being ‘fast to love’ and ‘slow to hate’
or get mad. I think we can learn a lot from Joseph Smith. I love you all have
an amazing week!
Love Elder
Ure
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