Well hey
there,
It's been a little bit of a tough week. The Black Plague came to our apartment. And the reason I call it the Black Plague is
because it came when we found some mice (the Black Plague was was
carried though Europe on rats). But
that mouse problem is taken care of. We
caught and killed three of them, and they shouldn't be bothering us
anymore. So yeah, that can count as my
funny story I guess.
We haven't
been able to find much since last week, we did a look up a past investigator
named Martha who we had a great lesson with.
She is this older Dominican lady who has had a lot of challenges with her
kids and her health. We had a really
good lesson with her about faith and perseverance, and WOW…she's such an
amazing example. She referred to Job,
and all that he went through, and how he didn't complain and then said that
what she's going though is nothing compared to him, and she knows that God won’t
ask more of her than she can support, and we pretty much just got to know her,
and who she is. It was what I thought was
a really good first lesson, and I'm excited to go back by her house and get to
know her a little more, and teach her how the restored gospel can really bless
her life and her family’s life.
Another cool
kinda funny thing that happened was on Saturday. One of the Elders (Elder Hill) in my District
turned 20 on Sunday. For his birthday he
wanted to go out for dinner on Saturday night as a District. He and I were on a bit of a split so that
Elder Head and Elder Bartlett could buy him a gift. We went knocking and hadn't had much luck,
when one of the other missionaries gave us a call and said that the line at
Dallas BBQ was huge, which sucks, because we didn’t have all the time in the
world. Anyways, on our way out of the
last building Elder Hill said a prayer asking that we could get a reservation. He finished his prayer and we left the
building, and not 75 feet from the building he got a text saying that we had
received a reservation for 8:00 (twenty five minutes from then). When we got to Dallas BBQ and saw how packed
it was we were amazed. So lesson learned…God
answers prayers. No matter how silly
they may sound.
So yeah, that’s
about it for this week. I hope all
continues to go super well, and I love you all.
Carson
