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| Elder Ashcraft and Elder Northrup |
On Monday we had a cool lesson with Dee again!! We talked about how we need to teach our kids to live good principles now more than ever!! We bore testimony and without us even needing to say anything he said we could come back next week!! So we will be seeing him again tonight!!
On Tuesday we had another great District Counsel!! The spirit was powerful while we were there and we decided that we would make District T-shirts!! We had a District Call a couple nights later and made some sketches for the shirts, and we all voted on them!! They are finna look Full Decent!!
It was also cow day on Tuesday so after the meeting, we went to chick-fil-a with 'dots' on our suits to make us look a little more cow like!! They accepted it and we got free meals!! Hurra for Israel and Chick-Fil-A!!!
That night we went to two appointments and they both got dropped! We had about an hour until our dinner started so we decided to pray about where to go! We decided to go and visit this family a few blocks away. When we knocked on the door nobody answered but soon enough a young lady drove up near the curb in her car and got out! She was picking up someone in the house that we knocked on but she instantly wanted to hear the message that we were sharing! So we taught her a 5 min Restoration and gave her a Book of Mormon!! That was a cool experience!!
Wednesday we were supposed to have a lesson with Bill, we met him at Burger King last week. He didn't actually show up to the lesson so if you could keep him in your prayers that would be fantastic!!
Thursday we spent the day laying down Hardwood flooring for a member named Bro. Aguirre!! It was a good time and I was wiped out by the end of it!! When we came back for the rest of the day we decided to hit up a guy across from us in our building! His name is a Emmanuel and he wanted us to come over and share a message with him!! He let us in that night and we shared the Restoration with him!! That was pretty sweet!!
Friday we had another day of Service but this time for a guy named Ben that we are working with!! We spent right around 6 hours digging out dirt from his basement and it was awesome!!
When we were eating dinner with some members, Ray Mcadoo called and said that he had some food for us!! He came to our complex and dropped off 2 big boxes of groceries and a bunch of Ice Soda!!! He is such a good man!! We didn't even have to shop this morning!!
We are teaching 3 Steves in this area right now; Big Hoss Steve, Firefighter Steve and Rich Steve!! On Saturday, Rich Steve brought us to Longhorn Steakhouse and blew 40 bucks on each of us!! We've had a lot of people just giving us stuff lately!! Pretty flippin sick if you ask me!!
After that awesome lunch we went to visit a guy named David/Ghandi who is pretty stoked on us!! We helped him rebuild a shed months ago and we just went and checked on him this time!! He is kinda one of those cool hippy dudes that believes in the energy of rocks and the power that is within, but we somehow related it to the Plan of Salvation and he believed all of it!! Cool stuff indeed!!
On Sunday we were chilling in Gospel Principles, listening and participating in the lesson when one of the members walked in and asked if we could go teach Gospel Doctrine about Saul. So we strolled on in and did it!! That is the missionary life, I swear!!
Towards the afternoonish I got a call from the Sister Missionaries in the District with a question. They came home late on Saturday night and didn't realize that their gas gauge was on empty so when it hit Sunday, they didn't know whether to fill up on the Sabbath, or keep it holy and have faith. I basically just told them to pray with faith to act on the impressions that they would receive. They did so and made the decision to not fill up even though they had appointments all over their area, and more importantly they came out on top and didn't crash and burn!! So that was cool!!
Just a little spiritual thought from my studies this week!!
I decided that because the prophets have repeatedly told us that each chapter of the Book of Mormon is sacred, and that we can learn from each of them, I started over on my reading and I am going to read and reread. Then I am going to write down what I learned in every chapter!! Its finna be sick by the end of it!!
So as I read 1 Nephi 1 I realized something about Lehi and his role as a prophet!! He saw other prophets bearing testimony and yet he still felt the need to do so. He had every reason to say, "aw nah, I don't need to do that, someone else can handle it," or whatever. He didn't sink into his comfortable chair but instead sought for the will of God, no matter how rough the living would be!!
Love yall
Elder Northrup
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