Sounds like a Horror film title, huh? GOOD. To be used with parental supervision.
Howdy Howdy!
This last 2 weeks has been good! Lots of funny stuff has happened –
thats aside from the crazy awesome spiritual overload.
2 weeks ago we were riding our bikes by an apartment building and saw a lady walking her dog. I stopped to give her a card, but she said she was a member! Sis. Cornell allowed us to come by sometime and meet her family.
A different night we did and it was great, but when we were
unlocking our bikes, a kid our age walks up to us and says, “Hey,
Elders!” and we were like, “Uhhh, Hey man, whats up!” He said, “Yall
dont know me, but im tyler and I havent been to church in a while – I
think its time.” We were like, “What the!” (In mind) and told him
where the church was.
We came by to visit him on a different day but he wasnt home. As we were unlocking our bikes I looked up the apartment stairs and saw a guy talking on the phone. I asked if I could give him a card and he said, “Actually I was gonna ask yall for one of your cards! Im michael. I hung out with the missionaries in Irving all the time!” (Non member) And we were Like, “Say whaaa?”
This spot is magical! A different night we came back to see Michael, but he was a sleepin’ so we tried by Tyler. Tylers mom (Nonmember) came out and told us that she kicked him out and sent him to Utah…Hes been trouble apparently.
So we were able to start talking to his mom! Shes agnostic, believes God is the device of mans imagination, but believes in Christ… Wait..Huh? We told her we could help her in her faith in
Christ so she said we could come back. I wonder who we meet when we go back to see her! hahaha
These things have been happening because of obedience. EXACT
obedience. Its easy as a missionary to justify spending a little more
time in the apartment to do paperwork, or update the whiteboard, etc.
So I needed miracles to happen. This area needs help – hence why we
were whitewashed in. So I convinced my comp that we are going to
create a checklist for every “Standard of Excellence” Rules our
mission president has given us. Each day we were exactly obedient,
something miraculous has happened – we find people we need to teach, people walk up to us and ask us for a card, etc! Its Gold. Now we have a great testimony of complete obedience.
Some stuff We’ve done:
–Got my driving certification for the mission (FINALLY) Im expecting a car to show up at my door any moment. Ha. Jokes.
–Interviews with Pres. Ames – awesome sauce! Love that man. He will be a General Authority eventually, I know it.
–Exchange with President Ames! He came out with us and we taught people who have been taught since 2005. He laid it out for them and committed them to take the lessons seriously this time around – no time to elaborate…
–Went to the Temple! 2 sessions and a initiatory! Never ceases to
amaze me the peace in there.
–Pres. Ames Fireside: During his talk, someones GPS goes off and
says, “Turn left on….” and Pres. Ames says, “Good thing we’re
already here!” and then thinks for a split second and says, “You don’t need that. Im giving you directions to Eternal Life.” Sooooo funny
–Nerf Guns as a training in District meeting
Now for the crazy story!
It was 3am and we were ashleepin’. I woke up to a blood-curdling
scream! A womans voice also yelling, “Someone help me!!” Twas so
surreal. It was almost pitch black, and I saw Elder Reed throw his
covers off his bed – I was still dazed. He strode out of the room with
determination. Then probably realizing that he could do anything
without me, turned around and strode toward my bed to wake me, but with a silhouette coming at me with such purpose (also after hearing the screams) scared me to death to the point I made a loud gasp and threw my arms up to cover me… First time Ive ever done that….but I got out of bed and we went out of the bedroom and he grabbed the largest knife we had and stormed out of the apartment, me thinking, “What in the world is happening?!” He then realizing this didnt look good, put the knife back inside and we ran down stairs. A man was telling people that knocked on his door, “MY GIRLFRIEND IS INSANE WHEN SHES DRUNK! SHE BROKE THROUGH MY BACK DOOR AND CAME AT ME! LOOK AT
ME!” He had bite gashes all over his body – they were nasty – he was
missing parts of bicept and chest! She then came out of the apartment staggering and ran into the night…He said he called the poice, but we did again just to be sure. In the morning he said she was taken away. So weird!
Well untill next time!
Thanks for the letters friends!
Love yall!
Elder Householder
PS: I totally went to shake my protein drink and shook it all over me
and my bed…cant see much but I was confuzzled….haha and had to
change everything.
