Hello dear Mother!
Dang, looks like a whole lot of my old buddies are beginning
to roll out for missions. I'm proud of them! It's incredible to see just how
much the Lord is opening the way for all of his children to serve him in any
way that they can! After all, with so much to be done in the Lord's kingdom,
hands are needed and appreciated.
I hope this doesn't alarm you, but while I was thinking
about home this P-day, it occurred to me just how alien of a place Vegas seems
to me now. I usually recall the weather and the people from both civilian and
mission experiences there, and it's odd to see the contrast. Yakima's nice, and
while I probably wouldn't like to live here, I still see it as a kind of
"home" I guess.
Then again, transfers are next week, but I hope that I can
stay. There is so much happening right now that I am looking forward to! The
Lord has blessed us so much out here and I hope that I can still stay long
enough to see how else He plans to bless us for the area.
In terms of the work, we had another great week! We found
ourselves doing a lot of service at the processing plant where donated produce
goes through. And also helped a member moved some furniture around. Still,
proselyting went incredibly well. After service one day, some other elders
dropped us off at a potential's home, but it fell through. So we began walking.
We were thinking about where to tract as we walked, and I noticed this one
street that we had tracted previously before. I got a prompting that we should
go and tract the other side of the street. So we did that, and eventually we
ran into a 17 year old named Austin. It was kind of awkward at first, normally
we're used to talking to adults. So I kind of threw formality out of the window
and started to talk to him about Dragon Ball Z and anime, since he was wearing
a DBZ shirt. Come to find out he's a decently intelligent fellow, and when we
asked about his religious background, he told us he's devout in a theological
view about aliens and science and expounded on the subject. Right, well
we talked to him about the Book of Mormon and talked mostly about how science
is God's creation for us to try to understand how everything works. I was
feeling pretty faithful about it, so I decided to open to a scripture in BOM by
random. Turns out I open to a scripture on how God sends Angels to converse
with men, which was nice. We gave him the book, and he said he'd read it
too!
We stopped by a few nights later, and his Mom answered. When
we got talking to her, she kind of had a "please help my son" vibe
around her. But she also told us that Austin was reading the Book of Mormon, so
you never know! For all we know, we may have a solid new investigator!
Another fun thing happened, while we were biking, we noticed
a "book box" in front of a house. The concept of these boxes is
pretty simple, put a book in, take another if you like. Well, you can probably
guess what we did. We placed a Book of Mormon in there. Some days later, we
rode past again, and some had taken it! We may do that again with our number in
it. Hopefully if someone calls it's about an appointment and not someone
telling us to stop putting those in the box. Eh, whatever.
Glad to hear that all is going great back home! I'm kind of
short on time, but it's great to hear from everyone! Glad to hear that Smokes
and Harley are doing great, among other things. Still, let me know what
happens! I appreciate all the prayers that you guys are giving for the mission
force, and I thank you for all the love and support you've shown so far! Keep
up the good work!
Love you all!
Michael
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