Week 35

Hey! This past week has probably been one of the most amazing I've had yet.

 

To start off....Flashing back to a few weeks ago. The transfer was just beginning and I had just met sister Waldron. I told her that I didn't like how things were being carried out in this area, and that I wanted to change everything. We sat down and discussed all of the changes that I felt needed to happen and we started to make a plan for how we could make the area run more effectively. We'd started putting several of our plans into action, but we still needed somethingmore. In one of our wards we had a new ward mission leader called. We met him and set up a time to come over on Saturday and discuss our ward. On Saturday morning, during our studies in the morning my companion and I had a really detailed plan that we laid out. We had prayed really hard and we felt good about what we had accomplished. In it there were several things that I don't believe had ever been tried in this area before. So...Saturday night we got to our meeting with brother Johnson (the ward mission leader). He sat us down and told us that he'd been praying about what kinds of things we needed to do to make this area progressing. He told us a specific plan that he had come up with. It was almost EXACTLY the same plan that my companion and I had come up with that morning. Seriously, it was amazing. THe spirit was really strong and we know that our plan is what heavenly father wants for this area.

 

Next, another amazing experience happened yesterday. I was asked to give a 5 minute talk in sacrament meeting. I got up, spoke and then I sat down. As I listened to the rest of the meeting I got the feeling that we needed to see a man named John. His wife was a member, he was not. Yet, for the past 20 years he has faithfully come to church with her every single sunday. I pushed the thought to the back of my mind and figured I'd discuss it with my companion later. Later came and I told her what I'd been thinking and she gave me this crazy look and said, "you know...I got the same feeling that you did". Right after dinner we made the trip up to the johns home. Lo and behold, we saw john outside mowing the lawn. We dropped the car at his house and then walked back down to talk to him. He greeted us and then after talking  for a couple of minutes he said, "well, I hope you don't mind, but I've got to finish mowing the lawn, so if you just go up to the house my wife will be there! Is that alright?" . My whole countenance just dropped....I attempted to form a reply, but I found that I couldn't find the words. John had noticed our reaction and simply said, "I'll be right up".

 

We walked back up to the house and johns wife was very surprised to see us!! We all sat down and we told them of our prompting to come there. John looked at us and said, "you know...I wasn't really all that surprised to see you here today". He then went on to say that when I was speaking in church that he felt as if I was talking right to him, and that he had the feeling that several other people were zeroing in on him that morning as well. Funnily enough, when I was speaking the thought hadn't even occurred to me that we needed to see him, it happened after I was done.

 

We told him that it mustve been the spirit that made him feel like I was talking to him. We boldly asked him why he hadn't been baptized and what was holding him back. he told us of his concerns and then we told him that heavenly father felt that he was ready for this step in his life. After that we started talking about eternal families and his wife as well as john both commented about how they wanted that in their life.

 

The last cool thing about this lesson was that something changed about john that night. I'm not sure what it was...but his wife could see it as well. I cant imagine how many missionaries have tried to baptize him in the past 20 years, however as soon as we finished our visit the wife asked us said to come back next sunday. I'm not sure what exactly the change was in him, but from his wife's reaction, I know that it was something subtle and yet big enough for her to hope that this could be the time that he gets baptized. The spirit was so strong!! We're excited to go back!!!

 

Well,.....that's about it for the week! Love you all!! :)