This week has been pretty sick! Both literally and metaphorically. Let me explain. On Tuesday, we got a call from my boy, brother Stroman, saying he was in the hospital:( We kept in touch with him throughout the week and instead of just having some intestinal issues, he also has pneumonia now! Be sure to keep him in your prayers!
We had a zone council in Goldsboro and my zone is pretty hype. While there, we had a game of Jeopardy, based on how well we know our companions. It was really fun and we ended up winning the grand prize – a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts! I also found an awesome leather bound copy of Jesus the Christ. I took that as a sign that I should study my scripts more. There are actually about 6 or 7 people in this zone that have the same release date as me so that's pretty cray cray. We set a zone goal of having 8 people baptized for the month of March and I have faith that things will work out!
Throughout this week, I decided that even if my comps don't want to do too much, I’ll get all of our contacts done for the day and set up future lessons. The Lord has seen my efforts and knows my limits. Through my hard work, I have been able to find 2 new people and one person who came to church. Her name is Melinda and we actually put her on date for the 20th of this month!:) I am soo pumped and I hope that I can continue to keep up this intensity. I can see that I sound a little bit selfish when I've been talking, my companions are actually really great missionaries and they have so much experience, they just don't really have the drive to do much if there's nobody on the schedule to teach. So I’m going to keep us busy by setting up lessons!!!
I was able to finally meet Momma Reed's husband this week and boy is he cool! Brother Reed is a pilot for a company that flies around celebrities and other famous people, so he was sharing some of those stories with us when we were over at his house this last week. They were generous enough to get some of the best steak filets I've ever had! These cuts of meat were sooo tender and juicy and the Reeds were just sooo over the top kind to us that evening. I love their family!
We also had the chance to help a family move out of their house. It was a young couple in the ward that wanted to head out to Morehead city. There were little kids running around the entire time, but they were usually in their giant backyard. After moving the stuff into their moving truck, I was tasked to take down their kid’s big wooden playset thing. When I was taking it down, we lost the drill bit. I started looking for it with the girls and found nothing. After a while I asked them, "Do you think God knows where the drill bit is?", And they replied, “of course He does”. So we knelt down and had the oldest daughter say a prayer for us to find it. When she finished the prayer, we started looking again for the part on the ground. After about 5 minutes, I looked up and found the drill bit resting on a piece of wood above my head. Upon finding it, I showed it to the girls and the youngest one said, "I think God wanted us to look up towards Him instead of looking down, huh?!" It was a very special experience to me and I am grateful for this amazing new memory!!
These past 3 days I've also been feeling suuuuper sick and in a lot of pain, but that's fine because the more I prayed and relied on the Lord's help, the more I was able to withstand the pain and keep up the work that I'm a part of. It reminded me of when President Ballard just had hand surgery but still needed to do quite a bit of paperwork, so instead of giving up, he said a prayer and asked the Lord to not take his pain away, but to make it bearable and allow him to do the work he needed to do. Kind of how the Israelites or Alma’s people, when they were in bondage; the Lord did not immediately free them from bondage, but first made their burdens light so that they could endure the trial and then they were freed in His time. Anyways, I'm feeling a little better and I hope y’all have a great week. Valeuuu!
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