Two
month exactly today! Hard to believe for
sure. WE still miss him every minute of
every day but are so blessed to have him as a missionary and working hard as a
servant of the Lord. We love him, we miss him but we are oh, so proud of him!
Chapter 9:
1 And it came to pass
that in the sixth week of the work of the mission we found men and women and
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| I am not sure what that is or why they are so close to it! |
Wow that was really
dorky. That’s my missionary sense of humor nowadays. It's finally kicking in.
We did do that though. We had a few people that weren't extremely fun to talk
to but we had a lot more of them that were fun to talk to. Also I will send the
pictures to my awesome mom and hopefully she can get them working.
First miracle, I haven't
gotten sunburned yet this week. It is amazing what a full bottle of sunscreen
can do to prevent the sun from burning you! Also this was my first week of not
being sore from workouts and that is amazing as well.
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| This is Elder May's sunburn from 2 weeks ago! |
Unfortunately we did not
have a baptism this weekend but we are still going to try and keep teaching
him! He thankfully did not drop us like the last guy did. He hasn't responded
to our texts though either.....We will see how it goes but I hope it goes
well.
An awesome quote that we
had this past week was from Kevin who we met last week. He is progressing
extremely well and when we invited him to this week’s baptism he asked,
"Do you want me to just bring my bathing suit and I will get mine done
too?" We could not do it yet but I wish we could have.
Some cool miracles are:
Moses: During some of our
scheduled finding time we felt we should go to the Winn-Dixie parking lot and
try to find people. As we are talking to people, I look over to see Elder
Gardner yelling to a guy that is walking around as if he has no idea where he
is or how he got there. We taught him and found out that his name is Moses.
That was pretty cool.
Brandon: Brandon is a
former investigator that Elder Gardner was teaching but then his girlfriend
didn't want anyone coming by anymore so they had to drop them. But we were
recently walking around downtown New Port Richey (a town in our area) and we
see this kid that is sitting on his porch. Elder Gardner walks up and says
"WHATS UP?!" It’s Brandon. His girlfriend recently moved out and so
he went to live with his cousin and somehow we ended up meeting with him. We
retaught him the restoration and are going to continue teaching him. When we
asked if he had any referrals for us he pointed at a house and said "DONT
GO THERE. THAT LADY IS CRAZY. She met me the first time, called me Satan
because I have tattoos, and then attacked me and pulled on my skin hoping to
rip them off." We did not go to that house. I don't have any tattoos and I
was scared.
Elgin: Last night we were
walking around in an area because an appointment fell through and we see that
there is a member that lives on the road next to where we are. We had never
heard his name before so we assumed he was less active. It’s a good assumption
because our ward has less actives than it does actives. We went to his house
and accidentally passed it. After we turned around a car pulls into his
driveway and so we talk to the guy in the car. We get out and walk up and he
exclaims, "ELDERS! I HAVEN'T SEEN ONE OF MY PEOPLE HERE IN A REALLY LONG
TIME!" He gave each of us a hug and invited us in. That was really
cool.
Maria: We were having our
daily planning session which just means we were confirming appointments for the
day and we start each day out with a prayer. Right when we said amen, the phone
rings and it is a kind lady that tells us she recently had someone try to break
into her house and while she was running away she tripped and broke her foot.
Then asked if we could give her a priesthood blessing. She is also a less
active member and when we finished the blessing she looked at each of us and
said, "I will come to church again. Thank you both so much." That was
really cool.
Nate: We recently had a
new neighbor move in. A couple of weeks ago, we walked outside to start our day
and these three men were standing around a couch outside. My only guess is they
were contemplating how to move the couch up the stairs into the apartment. We
offer to help and somehow it ends up with me and the new neighbor carrying it
up the stairs by ourselves! It was a three seat reclining couch and I don't
know if you know or not, but those are heavy. Anyway, he was very appreciative
and told us we should come by sometime and hang out and so we took that as you
can come teach me sometime, so we did this past week. He was raised Hindu and
has a lot of fantastic questions about what we believe and he is understanding
extremely well what we teach. This past lesson, we were about to close with a
prayer so we asked if he would say it. He said no immediately and I explained
how easy it is to pray. After I explained, he said he would do it and he said a
perfect prayer and it was even cooler because in the prayer he didn't ask for a
single thing. Just a completely grateful prayer and that was really cool.
Alright, I will try and
send my mom the pictures from last week. I haven't taken any this week so I
don't have any. I will take a selfie real quick and send it that way there is
something.
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| Love this Elder!! |
I love anyone that is
reading this right now. Near or far, related to me or not, I love you. I am
thankful for any prayers that are being sent to me or any of my fellow
missionaries. We truly can feel them all.
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Love, Elder May
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