September 5, 2016

It's so crazy that it's September! You're right! What's insane for me to think is that by the time next transfer rolls around I will have been in this area for almost 5 months. Pretty crazy stuff. 

That is so cool that he was able to use his priesthood almost immediately! I'm so proud of him! I literally just mailed his nametag like 5 seconds ago. So hopefully it gets there pretty soon. I was late in mailing Evelyn's, but I sent it on Wednesday so it should get there pretty soon. Tell Rowena Barnett thanks for the stamps! I think I already told her but tell her thanks again for me. Somehow I lost the return address for that sister that gave Leslie and the Hayes girls dance lessons. I can't believe I forgot her name already. It's weird, because now I know almost everyone in the lakeside ward by name, but I can't remember a lot of people from the 8th ward. It's gonna be even weirder because I'm not gonna know a lot of people because of the split and all that good stuff. 

thank you again for keeping me updated on everything they are doing. I miss you guys a lot. 

Alright. Cool story time. So on Saturday, we had an awesome day planned. In the morning, we had 4 hours of service planned, and then we had a member present lesson planned for right after that, then we planned another member present right after that, and then we had dinner with a less active. Then we had 2 more member present lessons planned for that evening. It was going to be a killer day! 

And then everyone cancelled except for one lesson and dinner. So, we had no idea what we needed to do, but we figured that there must be some reason that those lessons all cancelled because they were all looking pretty solid and then fell through. So we thought about what we needed to do and decided to go visit some of our potential investigators. Before we got out of car, we felt like we were in the area for some reason. There was somebody we needed to help, but we didn't know where they were and we didn't know anything, just that we needed to be somewhere. So we prayed, and in the prayer, we asked for Heavenly Father to help us know why we were there and who we needed to help.The first one we found out that he didn't actually want to meet with missionaries anymore, which was a bummer. Then the next guy said we could come back another time, but didn't give us specifics at that time. So we were like, cool, maybe that's why we were here. Then we had to go to the bathroom, and the library was down the street. Usually we drive back to the street, but for some reason we walked to the library. But, the library had just barely closed. So we started to walk back to our car. 

Let me paint the picture here. It's about 7:30 PM, just getting dark, and it's overcast and rainy. Not too bad, but you were getting wet. So we are walking down the street back to our car.

So we are walking down the street, and this guy just runs across the street to meet us! We were like, uhhhhh what?

And then he says this, breathing hard because he just sprinted across a busy street. exactly this: "Guys, I know this might sound crazy, but you're here for me right now" 

It was so awesome!!!! His name was David and he is a less active YSA. He is girlfriend had lots of questions about the church he couldn't answer and he also was wondering where he needed to go with his life because he was 23 or 24 and hadn't gone on a mission. He told us that he was driving down the street and saw two guys in white shirts and said 'please let those be elders, please let those be elders' and we were! 

(Obviously)

We got to talk to him for a good 20 minutes, answering his questions and encouraging him to study his scriptures and pray to ask God where he needed to go in life right now. It was so amazing to realize that God guided us all the way across town to answer the yet to be said prayer of this child of his who was wondering where he needed to go in life. It was such  an amazing experience! David seemed really excited about doing what we invited him to do. Just super amazing. 

So yeah. That was my cool story. Love you guys! Hope you have a good week!

Canolis made by the Hammens. 

Elder hatch and I were quoting 

the master of disguise 

the whole time we ate them

Us on electric scooters at the Hammens for dinner

Elder hatch trying to sneak up on some sisters who were playing the piano

Exercise time lol

A missionary in our mission who is just hilarious