was cool.
We had a couple really awesome lessons with Robert. He is progressing
so well. We taught him the Plan of Salvation and our members were way
late so that was a real bummer. But once the members got there, they helped out a bunch. Then we stopped by this week and showed Robert how to tie a tie so he would feel more comfortable. He was pumped. Here is a funny story about Robert. This
week it was fast and testimony meeting and Robert told us that he
feels like he needs to go up and say something. We told him how to do
it and then he got up there and started giving a testimony. We were
way shocked. Then something that doesn't usually happen happened. He
asks us from the pulpit to come up with him. I didn't really know what to do so I
looked at the bishop for some help but he didn't give any help so we went
up there and stood by Robert and then after that bore our testimonies. The
Ward was shocked but it was good. It was something never seen before
but it worked. He is definitely getting baptized!
We did some sweet service this week. We helped out this lady with her
yard. She was so grateful for it. We were supposed to drag these
branches from one side of the yard to a huge burn pile. It was
normally going to take an hour. But we tried to get the branches free
so it was easier and we ended up moving this seven or eight foot high
20 foot long pile all the way across the yard in one trip. You should
have seen the look on their face when she saw it. Then on Saturday we
helped out at this community event. We got there early in the morning
to register and help set up. We got assigned to the parking side. We
thought we would help unload canoes and kayaks. Instead, they sent us to be
with this guy named Corneleon. He is a good guy going through some
changes. And we had a pretty boring job - just point down to the docks
and then point them to another lady. But the coolest part was that we
taught him the gospel the whole time. We taught for 2 hours and he started the
conversation. We talked to a bunch of people there and it was a blast -
good publicity for sure. Then later that day we helped take it down.
And, we helped out the mayor and talked to him for a little bit. He was
listing all the members he knows. One of them is the stake president
and we think that the service had some really good things come from
it.
Cool miracle! We were out with a priest and when we were planning we
felt like we need to let Jacob, the priest, decide what we do. We planned a day but
we let him go where he was feeling. We were driving past this house
and he felt like we needed to knock on this door, so we flipped around
to get to this house, but we couldn't find it. Then we saw this guy
Randomly standing in a field. We are in the middle of nowhere, by the way. We
rolled down the window and talked to this guy and he was super interested.
We worked really hard this week. Something I am starting to notice is
that this work is more than us and those we are teaching. There is so
much more here for them. And there is more help than we think out there.
This is a picture of a original death mask of Abe Lincoln, and the
Smithsonian wants it bad.
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