As you may have guessed from the title, this week was an interesting one. It was full of appointments that fell through, little finding success, and other stressful things. But it also had a lot of small miracles and interesting mission stories! We did service for some members this week, helping with home improvement, and it helped to build a lot of trust.
We also had ward council this week, which was really good. We were taught exactly what is expected of us for ward council in mission conference last week, so we were well prepared! Now that we have built member trust, we have a lot of exciting opportunities in store! The members here are doing great with missionary work and starting to roll forward. We have a lot of potential member referrals on the way, and we are teaching 2 this week! We also had some interesting days.
We went up to Crimora on Tuesday (one of the boonier parts of our area) and I don't want to got back there again! We found little success, and one of the trailer parks we were in had unlawfully high speed bumps! For those that don't know, we have a little box in our cars that monitor our driving and report violations. This box is called tiwi. We love tiwi, but sometimes it yells at us. Tuesday was one of those days. As we were trying to gently move over these speed bumps, we scraped the bottom of the car on a couple and got 2 aggressive drivings. Needless to say, I wasn't very happy. I actually started driving around them where possible, and as I was doing so, Elder Berger looked at the speed bump and saw chunks taken out of it and pieces of car undercarriage strewn about. I don't think we will go back to that particular trailer park.
We visited an older lady in the ward on Sunday, and she is a 3-time hole-in-oner! She has a lot of cool stories, and is generally a wonderful lady. We really enjoyed that visit. We also visited a less active lady who had a lot of cool nick knacks. She let us borrow a couple, and one is called an evange-cube. It basically tells the story of why we need Christ through pictures as you unfold it. It was very fascinating. She also told us her conversion story, which was pretty cool. Like many others, she had some word of wisdom problems prior to converting, and at the end of the visit, she said "don't forget to take your pills!" We were a little concerned until we found out they were neat little "bible pills", essentially inspirational bible verses inside gel capsules to be read in time of need.
Enjoy general conference and Easter this weekend!
Elder Brown
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| Our visit with a 3-time hole-in-oner! |
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