Angels Among Us

I'm sorry that I was unable to write y’all an email this last week, so I'll just make a short yet detailed list of the big events that happened in these last 14 days of mission life. At the beginning of the other week, I had dinner at a member’s house. Everything was going great, and after the meal, their youngest son wanted to shoot some hoops with us. I placed my phone and wallet on the hood of his mom's car as we were playing and it wasn't until his mom hopped onto the freeway, that I realized I hadn't grabbed my things off her car. I frantically searched the sides of the road where she drove, all the way up until the entrance of the freeway. Nothing! We finally gave up and headed back to the car, we then received a call on our other phone from the Reid family who lived quite nearby and they said they had my phone AND wallet! I guess angels really do look out for me. Brother Reid said that a lady knocked on his door and said that she knew he was from Utah and saw that my license is a Utah one, but the weird thing was, he had never seen this woman before. It was an awesome blessing for me personally and it has really strengthened my testimony of how God is always keeping His servants safe and in good care.

The next day, we had a zone conference with the Maurer's in Goldsboro. It was reaaaalllly long, and they tried to keep us engaged the best they could. They started off their PowerPoint by bringing up "Racism in the Mission", which I thought was weird, but okayyy then lol. It was pretty good though, and they were really focusing on how many different ways missionaries can find people while here in the NCRM. One of those ways just so happens to be us (the missionaries) putting our area code into the phone, and then typing some random numbers afterwards! Looks like we are the newest line of telemarketers in today's world!!

Throughout both of these weeks, I have focused on cleaning up our area book by calling people who haven't been taught in a while, or referrals we’ve received but haven’t gotten in touch yet. I happened to get in contact with a few people who are pretty cool, so I’m going to give a quick intro to these cool kids.

-Jia is a gal who talked with missionaries in the past and we taught her the Restoration right on the spot when we called her.

-Ikea is her daughter and overheard our convo. She is interested in talking with us and one day being baptized!

-Stephanie is a referral who wanted to learn how to truly follow God (through baptism) and she has such a passion for it.

-Juanita was also a referral who originally wanted to know how to pray the right way, and she is planning to come to church this next week, if we can get her a ride!!

-Skip was a guy who wanted some clarity in what he sees going on around him. He has so many beliefs in common with us, but uses different words (Ex. Says "energy" and not "spirit")

Lastly, I wanted to talk about what I have been studying this week. In preparation for this up and coming General Conference, I wanted to go back and see what the prophet has asked each of us to do in the 6 months before this next conference. One thing that President Nelson really pointed out was that we all should study up on all of the blessings that are promised to covenant Israel. With that on my mind, I tried to read up a little bit about it on the church's website and came across the article 'The Abrahamic Covenant: a blessing for all people'. I really like how they narrowed a lot of the blessings into 4 promises given to Abraham from God: A promised land, a great posterity, priesthood and gospel blessings, and lastly, a mission of salvation to others. One scripture that they used in the article (Galatians 3:27-29) really brought it home for me when it says,

27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise". 

I feel that if others could truly see how easy it is to be one with Christ and receive the blessings in store for those willing to "Let God Prevail" in their lives, then people would be much happier and the world would be a much better place! 

But what are your thoughts on this subject? What all have you studied about through these last 6 months? I hope that everything is going great and things aren't getting too crazy over there. But anyways, I suck at writing so imma end this here. Tchauuu!