Hey Mom! September
19, 2016
This week:
semester's back, country
walks, things are working!, and learning to teach...again.
I thought the change of furniture between my old room and the office
actually looked pretty nice! Funny to think that we're going to be leaving
town. But you know, the only thing I'll miss the most are the people, and Vegas
is just a hop over the desert from St. George.
Meanwhile in Ellensburg, CWU's
fall semester started up. And it's been....funny. And odd, and a little bit of
weird too. I remember back in 2013 we had this one assembly at Palo where at
the end some dude in a chicken suite ran out to mid-court just as the opening
cord of the Harlem shake started to shake the gym, and before we knew it the
whole place turned into the biggest mosh-pit I've ever seen. Well, Central has
a similar feel. There's no giant-mosh pits (on the steets at least), but there
are a lot of drunk guys wandering around downtown, rather skimpily dressed
ladies, and if 2nd ward elders are to be believed, a group of green-clad people
chanting "GREEN!" going down the campus. Funny, talking to the
cashier at the grocery this morning and she was telling us they had to call in
a noise complaint for the party life upstairs. And I'm dead certain that's the
least of it all...
Yeah, college life. Is this
the destiny of our generation? Because we'll at least go down laughing if it
comes to it. Oh boy...
Still, we had a lot of
miracles rain on us this last week! We contacted the referral we received from
sis. Haysom, and she introduced us to her friend Cassie. It was super cool,
because Cassie has actually been coming to church for the past few weeks, and I
always assumed she was another member! She wants to be baptized, along with her
2nd-grade year old son. OOOOOOOHHHHHHHH SNAP! And they have the best member
fellow-shippers ever too!
A few days later we faced a
transportation predicament; our dinner appointment was our in the country and
so was 2nd wards. So we had to get dropped off with enough time for them to
make it. Bottom line, we walked down the highway for a solid hour and a half,
knocking on whatever door we came across. And rather tragically, no one was
interested. Nuts. Well, Bro. Walker, our dinner, picked us up en route from work anyway and we had
a nice meal with them. And
then mid way through that, we got a referral from a less-active member named
Mike Budschat. And he also said we could come by Sunday to meet them! Go humanity!
Tyler's out of town to Mt. St.
Helens for the week. We called him and lifted the no-meat deal, and we think he
understands that his own testimony needs to stem from his own heart, not to us
abstaining from meat. We'll keep in contact. After Zone conference on Thursday, which took us to Yakima, nothing
else happened for the remainder of the week. Minus more country-tracting. Come Sunday
we got to meet Mike and his friend, Trevor. Trevor is a friend of a recent
convert in 3rd ward, and he was at his baptism when he felt the spirit there.
Meeting with him was odd. He's got good questions, and we spent the first visit
going over them. I recognized mid-way that it has been a decent while since I
had actually taught, and I felt pretty rusty. Still, Trevor is a great guy! And
we have high hopes for his progression. He too has a solid fellowship
background, he and Mike's daughter are head-over-heels for each other and she
wants to get back into church. Turns out they too have been coming for a few
weeks now!
My concern for rusty teaching
was soon addressed as well. En-route to Trevor's lesson, we came to an
intersection and Elder Ackerman felt like we should go left instead of right.
'Didn't really see a threat in any way, so we took it, and walking down someone
caught up to us to talk to us. He introduced himself as Oliver, and asked if we
could come over to talk to him! Well, 'olee crud. Saw him after Trevor, and we
talked a good amount on family history, the nature of the Godhead, and the role
of the Holy Ghost too! And we didn't feel panicked in any way talking to him
either. He's Greek Orthodox, and a super nice guy, seen a lot of nasty stuff in
the past and never gave up on faith. And he accepted a Restoration pamphlet as
well!
Yeah, things improved greatly
just this past week! I think we're starting to see the light side of hill in
Ellensburg. Still, always keep you guys in mind. Tell everyone hi and give my
best wishes to Tom and Evan too! They're awesome.
Love you!
Michael
PS loved your insight on
Charity. It's true, it really is! Charity and Pride are absolute opposites, and
we have a duty to be charitable to all men everywhere.
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