HELLO! family,
Well this week was a bitter sweet one that's for sure....I swear at the end of your mission Satan is just trying to get you, he is always trying to destroy you or get you discouraged.
So the reason why is say this is because Friday our bikes were stolen. We came out of the place we were at and look and our bikes were gone. We were like "what the heck??" We just thought it was a joke that other missionaries did but we look down and our lock was cut and the bikes were gone. We were like "what the heck man??".. I mean it was on a busy street where allot of people are and we just don't understand how they did it without anyone seeing because it was in mid daylight. But we moved on and had a good week. On Saturday we had to walk around for a while because President Clements gave us a car to use for the transfer until we figure out how we are going to get bikes to use. So on Saturday we had an appointment at noon and so we had to leave our apartment at 10:30 just to get there on time. We walked there and got there and they were not home!! We were like "ahh man!!!" so we walked around to other investigators until 3 o'clock. We ended up walking about 7 miles in those hours.. but then we went to Bloomington and picked up our car. We got a brand new 2013 corolla, it's pretty nice....it has touch screen in it so that's one of the sweet parts about the week ha ha!!
These past 2 months have been so crazy getting hit by a car and getting my bike stolen. I just see how hard Satan is trying to discourage me, but its not working I'm still happy as ever and love doing the work even if I have to walk everywhere. Being a missionary means so much to me, it has changed me and I will faithfully serve my Heavenly Father no matter what comes my way.
This week also brought great news as well, on Thursday we got back in contact with a former investigator from a couple of years ago and he was so awesome! We taught him the restoration and we invited him to be baptized and he was like "yeah, when can I be baptized and what day so I can put it in my phone". He is really prepared and as we were leaving he was like, "alright, I will see you Elders at church!" but unfortunately on Sunday morning his little brother passed away and it was a really random thing! but we thought this will be the perfect time for us to teach the family about the Plan of Salvation.
Another great thing this week was that Elder Abbott had called me and was like "guess what?" I was like, "what?" and he said that Charlie was getting baptized on the 17th of August....I was like, "what?? no way that is so cool!!" I was so happy and excited for that news. I had been teaching her when I was in Minneapolis for about 9 months. She is such an amazing person and when I was teaching her I just had the strongest desire for her to be baptized and feel the happiness that God gives us....but it never happened when I was there, but now she is being baptized!! So even though I am not the missionary that is baptizing her, I am just filled with joy she is being baptized! That was THE best part of the week!
Something I have come to know this week is that Satan is working so hard on all of us.. but we can overcome him as we have positive attitudes and like Elder Holland said a few conferences ago "we should not be asking why other people are being blessed and I'm not".... as I look back at all the blessing I do have and who I am, I feel happy and the other hard or bad things in life tend to go away and all I end up doing is focusing on God and how I can make my life better through the gospel.
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