The one and the only... Pat Parker came to church!! If any of you recall he is the fox hunter who lives behind the Book of Mormon Publication Site. It's been a journey. We've taught him a few lessons, and he's progressing! He read the introduction to the Book of Mormon and he said, "I told my girlfriend Jesus lived with the Indians, but she didn't wanna hear nothing." As funny as he is, he is just as genuine, and is excited to keep coming! In terms of others we are teaching, Mike who I talked about last week relinquished his pipe! We asked him what he felt was keeping him from baptism, smoking being one of the problems. He agreed to stop smoking, but wanted to keep his pipe to "put incense in it and keep it as a memory." We finally agreed that he would give us his pipe until he was baptized and could put incense in it afterwards. So we are now in possession of Mike's pipe. It's a pretty powerful feeling.
I don't know if I've mentioned, but the site director couple, Elder and Sister Bradford, are finishing their mission. We had our last site meeting with them this past week. I will be forever grateful to them and all they have taught me, and to have had these last few weeks to work closely beside them. The new site couple are named the Neffs (if any of you are familiar with Neff beanies, he's the owner of that, so he's pretty cool). For our last site meeting we met in the basement of the Hill for ice cream and were asked to get into lines. Those who liked chocolate got in one line, those who liked vanilla got in another, and those who liked both got in another. Each were all served one scoop of that ice cream, but those that chose chocolate and vanilla got two scoops. This was to illustrate how even though the Bradfords are leaving, and there will be changes with the Neffs, we can still learn and experience great things with both, and we should be open to learning from both. With this experiment we were expecting some grumbles, but our sisters are the best and didn't give a singel word of complaint, so the demonstration didn't work so well. Though still, it is a great principle to be learned!
With
the passing of President Monson, it's given us a lot of reason to
reflect. I am grateful for all President Monson did for us, and I will
forever remember him as the living prophet whom I testified of as a
missionary. Though, I will just as gladly testify of the next prophet,
because I know God leads His people. Whether that is through the hand of
His servant, President Monson, or on a smaller scale Elder Bradford, or
Elder Neff, He calls inspired people, and He will not lead us astray.
I love you all and am thinking of you!!
1. We had to clean out Facebook of old embarrassing posts to use it for proselyting and I stumbled upon this gem. It was prophesy for where I’d serve my mission.
2. Mike’s pipe!! (P.S It reeks 😷)
3. A picture the Waltons took when we had Christmas breakfast with them. They gave this picture to us this week.
I love you all and am thinking of you!!
1. We had to clean out Facebook of old embarrassing posts to use it for proselyting and I stumbled upon this gem. It was prophesy for where I’d serve my mission.
2. Mike’s pipe!! (P.S It reeks 😷)
3. A picture the Waltons took when we had Christmas breakfast with them. They gave this picture to us this week.
4. Pat Parker the fox trapper at church!! 🦊
5. The Bradford’s leaving (they live in Cincinatti, so they were leaving for the Ohio 😉)
5. The Bradford’s leaving (they live in Cincinatti, so they were leaving for the Ohio 😉)
6. One last photo together
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