This week:
Furniture moves, drug busts, finding and teaching, and
tree-cutting-throwbacks!
I loved Easter as well! I'll definitely add my testimony
that our Savior lives, and because of that, we all will live again!
We also had a humorous experience worth sharing. We went by
a LA family in Nespelem who we are working with. Only the youngest kid was
there and said that we could try back a different time. When we were walking
off their porch I noticed movement in their van that was parked on the driveway,
and after approaching it we discovered that the rest of the boys in the fam
were in there. Their cover blow, they opened the doors and we discovered that
they were about to light up their weed so they could get high before shooting
some hoops (they confessed they had literally nothing else to do)! We talked
with them for a brief moment, mostly about high-school fights and other
life-drama. But in the end we told them the weed stuff wasn't too good for
them. Still, kind of funny to catch them right before that!
The rest of the week panned out alright, and we got to meet
Nakai, the great-grandson of Sis. Cook, an elderly lady in the ward. He is 9,
and he told us that he wants to get baptized! But the first lesson did confirm
to us that we need to work on teaching simply a whole lot better! Heck,
teaching in general, because we haven't had too many experiences teaching so
far. But that's about to change too! Because in the past week or so we've had
some serious finding-blessings. It's been a mission regulation to tract for at
least an hour a day. And you know, every time we did, something happened! In
Colville we got to meet with an elderly couple named Daniel and Patty, who
after discussion accepted a Book of Mormon and Plan of Salvation pamphlet.
Another occasion at 8:35ish led us to meet a young father Jaron who totally
said we could come back in a genuine manner (I'm glad Elder Saitman convinced
me to go into the evening that late), so we left him a Restoration pamphlet! A
few days later we got in with an elderly retired hunter named Richard who was
open to a spiritual thought. And after a lengthy conversation (he's a talker)
he took a Book of Mormon and Restoration pamphlet too! And to top it off, we
ran new potential investigator in Coulee City at the bottom of our area. So
hopefully we can get something going across all the towns we are in. Still have
yet to contact Mitzee though.
It was nice, it really was! On Saturday we were enlisted by
a few brethren in the ward to go help out Garth Miller, a less-active but
pretty cool guy, who had a tree fall on his garage. Since we couldn't get on
the roof we resorted to hauling off the logs that the other guys cut off.
Reminded me a lot of the wood parties! Until my back pulled. That hurt. But it
came too in time for us to get most of the tree cut off and hitching the main
trunk to Bro. Bond's Tundra. Only problem was the tree was wire-wrapped to a
fence that wasn't budging. So after another hour of cutting, unraveling,
come-alonging and more cutting, we finally pulled the big ole-thing off,
partially irrigating his lawn in the process. He didn't seem to mind, it's a
country home. Why we didn't just go get a grinder to but through the main wire,
I have no clue. Everyone thought if we went for it we'd figure it out by the
time we'd get back.
Still, it was fun working with wood again! But even better
with what we have lined up for this week. I'm looking forward to it I'm not
going to lie! But until then, know I love you all. Don't know how I'd be able
to do all of this if it wasn't for you guys. I've really come to appreciate
prayer. I've learned that taking time after prayer to listen for answers goes a
long way. It's hard for the spirit to speak to you when you're out immediately
doing something. Just a thought, and I hope it can help.
Love you!
Michael
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