The week was full of ups and downs for sure, but we still had cool experiences which made it all worth it!
On Tuesday night, we taught a bomb Plan of Salvation lesson to Paula and Dave. They were soaking it all up and listening so intently. They told us it made the most sense out of anything else they've ever heard!
The next day, we had a lot of lessons planned, which I was excited about, but every single one except for one of them cancelled.... But the one lesson that we had was awesome! We met Ritchie the week before last but this week when we came back, his car wasn't there and we were super disappointed. Par for the course for the day, I figured. We decided to go and knock anyway. He answered the door and told us that he had literally gotten home 2 minutes earlier and had walked because he took his car for an oil change. He stepped outside and we were able to teach him the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As we were teaching he kept saying how interested he was and how he had been looking for a church which is really family centered and he loved what we were teaching him! Music to my ears! He has a great family as well. We are excited to go teach him again this coming week! It makes the rest of the hard days worth it!
Also exciting news from the reservations: the spiritual leader of the tribe on the Big Valley Reservation (the largest of all of them in our area) has a date to be baptized on May 22nd along with about 6 other people on the reservation! We are super excited about that! Basically we threw a match down and the whole place caught fire, it has been awesome to see. We are hoping to put some more people on date there this week. We are cautiously optimistic... we want to make sure they all know 100% the commitment they're making because we definitely don't want to baptize a whole tribe into inactivity.. But miracles are being poured out!
We were instructed by our great Mission President, President Meservy, this week at Zone Conference! After a really winding road down to Santa Rosa (mom wouldn't like it at all), we talked about how to study effectively for the people we are teaching. I learned a lot about study techniques and habits and I am continually trying to improve my studies! I actually like studying now which is the weird part! At least the gospel..... we'll have to wait and see if I will like studying for other things too but we'll be hopeful.
As Easter approached this past week, I was thinking a lot about the Savior. How he went through everything that we have ever gone through and everything we will ever go through, something he didn't deserve because he was perfect. But He suffered to know how we feel when we do make mistakes and so that he can perfectly know how to help us through it and to make us better. It's comforting to repeat the words in my head "He is not here, for He is risen." Not only do I know that Jesus Christ lived and died for me and for you, but I know that He lives today. And because He lives today, you and I can be with our families forever and not even death can separate us from each other. That, I know for sure. I've studied it and I've felt the confirmation of the Holy Ghost as I've studied and prayed about it. It's the biggest blessing that we could receive!
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| Easter Dinner with the Stogner family |
The Song of the Week is Aribella by the Arctic Monkeys. Another solid one. One day I'll be able to listen to all of these again. Until then, please enjoy them in my place!
A few shoutouts for this week as well: shoutout to East Lax! I haven't heard much about what's going on this year but I hope you are absolutely crushing it! I still have Hearn's number on the back of my name tag so always remember him when you play!
Another shoutout to my boy from Day One, Josh Ford! You're a straight baller and I'm super excited for you this upcoming week!
Have another great week everyone!
love,
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