It's been a hecka week!! Lots of good things, some not so fun things, and many spiritual things....
Last Pday we were able to play Bubble Soccer (If you don't know what that is, just look it up on Youtube, you will probably laugh your head off), it was so fun and so exhausting!! We are pretty sore and having bruises everywhere, but sooooo worth it!!
On Wednesday we had a good amount of Lessons on Campus!! I will mention just a couple of them briefly so that this doesn't turn into an essay...
We met with Luke Johnson in the morning! His brother actually joined the church about 6+ years earlier and went on a mission as well. I guess Luke saw how much Josh loved the Church and wanted to have some of that joy as well!! He is one of the only people that I have taught in the mission that is trying to find out if there is a God. I am glad that we are able to help him on this pursuit, this is just a first for me! :)
Another lesson was with Mason and Catrina again!! It went really well, everytime we meet with Catrina she becomes more and more open!! Mason is getting really excited, he just wants to be baptized already!! The same day we went over to a members house for dinner and Mason & Catrina came along as well! We all had a dandy time!!
On Thursday we had a lesson with Lay! Before the meeting we texted him to find out if he was still coming and he said, "ya, we are coming now." We immediately knew that the 'we' in his text meant that he was bringing his Church of Christ Preacher, so we decided to play dirty as well and bring Mason along with us (the last church that Mason attended was the Church of Christ) and he threw down hard!! It was pretty awesome!! Then afterwards we met with this girl named Autumn who had a lot of questions about the Plan of Salvation!! As we were teaching, it was easy to see that Mason believed all the principles in the Plan as well, and he would teach them perfectly!! My comp and I just sat there dumbfounded. The man is the most Golden of all the Golden's!!!
Friday morning we got an unexpected call from our bishop. It was about 6:30am and he texted us saying that he needed to talk to us!! When we got on the phone with him he told us that the Senior Missionary, Elder Sorenson had passed away in his sleep that very night!! After we got off the phone, both of us sat there frozen for about an hour!! We were all very close to the Sorenson's, it was a real heartbreak!
We went over to visit Sister Sorenson later in the day when she felt like she could have visitors. She had a few other visitors there as well; her brother, the sister missionaries and President Clayton! It was very interesting to see everyone's reaction, the gloomy faces and broken hearts, only to see Sister Sorenson smiling throughout all the conversations. She was still sad, and broke out in tears, but she also bore witness many times of the Plan of Happiness!! Towards the end of our time there our Mission President offered to give her a Priesthood Blessing. This was probably one of the most powerful blessings that I've ever witnessed. We were all in tears, but the Spirit of God was powerful and almost overwhelming!! I love Sister Sorenson with all my heart. Please keep her and her family in your prayers!!
On Saturday we had the opportunity to go to Jason Sun's baptism back in the Fayetteville Ward. I gave a talk on the Holy Ghost and also talked about how it has been incredible to see Jason's progress from when we first met him at his door to see him enter the waters of Baptism!! I know that baptism is just the first stepping stone into a more devoted life, I am so happy for the man!!
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| {Bro Pugmire (Chinese Speaker) and Jason Sun (Jin Sun)}
The very next day we had a Baptism in our own area for Gerald Drolet! There was a large support group there for him, he really felt loved there that day! It was pretty funny, right before the service we asked Gerald to put his baptismal suit on......buuuuuuuuuut it was too small! It was pretty stressful trying to find pants that would be long enough, then he had to run back to his apartment to get his long sleeve white shirt!! It felt like a mess, but it worked out in the end!!
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| (us, Gerald, Colin Merling) *Buzz Cuts in honor of Elder Sorenson |
Overall its been a very interesting and spiritually enlightening week!! The New Testament Story of Nicodemus and Jesus comes to mind as I think about the experiences from this week!
John 3:4-5,14-16
4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the
14 ¶ And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 ¶ For God so loved the
I know that because of Jesus Christ we can all live again! He suffered, he died, and he lived again that we through him can do the same!! I have a testimony of this! I know it and I Love it!! :)
GO FIGHT WIN!!
Love YALL
ELDER NORTHRUP
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