Monday, January 2, 2017

2017...where did the time go

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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