Hi Mom! June
19, 2017
This week:
Boat rides, Jessie's baptism, answering prayers, and
what-have-you
This week in Coulee Dam proved to be a spiritual overload!
Whenever we went tracting it seems, we were able to talk to someone keenly
interested, or serve them in some way or another! Tuesday we wound up helping a
few lawn care guys with one of their jobs, which provided a nice break from the
usual door knocking! Later than night, we got to travel to Keller, which allows
us to ride the ferry. I think it goes to show how desperate we get for
adventure sometimes, because for a simple boat ride it can feel pretty epic!
Jessie's baptism went phenomenal! Thanks for the prayers you
put into it! She and Austin as well as the family were the first to show up,
but in the course of the hour, seemed like half the ward arrived! It was almost
hard fitting everybody into the small relief society room where the font was!
But the spirit was so strong, during the whole service and particularly during
the ordinance itself. Later on that evening, Bro. Kershaw ,her step dad, texted
us and told us that while they were driving home, both she and Austin had this
"burning" feeling in their hearts. The ward has helped us out so much
in guiding them to have this relationship in Christ!
We also had a really cool experience that I can't pass down
sharing. We were driving around trying by folks on the unassigned-home-teaching
list, but to no avail. We drove by a potential investigator's home, named
Phillip, and saw his door was open. Normally he works at the nearby Exon, so we
decided after some consideration to pull in to see how he was doing. He wasn't
on duty, so we went back to his apartment. Knocked on the door, and he comes
around the corner, sees us, puts his hands on his head, looks up, and then
proceeds to bear-hug both of us, exclaiming "Does God answer prayers, or
what?!" As it turns out, he and his wife had had an argument that left him
alone in the apartment, super-depressed. At that moment he felt like he needed
God now more than ever in his life, so he was praying that God would send us
because he had lost our number, and his phone was down. I guess we knocked
shortly after he said that! I got to agree with him, God really did answer his
prayer then! Talked with him, gave him hope, and in the end left him with a
blessing. He also asked if we could find a ride for him to church, and not only
did it work out so he could come on Sunday, the member who gave him the ride
had a lot in common with him. God is good!
Other than that, we are holding together quite nicely here
in Coulee Dam. I'm not going to lie, it's frightening that I have less weeks
than I have fingers on one hand. Heck, if it wasn't for the schedule change at
the MTC, it would be even sooner! But, the Lord has blessed us with so many
abundance that it would be mockery to get trunky beyond working. That said, the
full-throttle effort has been so awesome recently. I truly do love you all for the
love and support that you guys have show me. I will continue to push forward
hard to the end! Kind of like flying to the finish you know? So much so that
you need to eject because you can't pull it back.
Anyway, cheesy rhetoric aside, love you all! I really do! I
don't know what I would do without you guys.
Michael
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