This week was a great week of heat!
We actually had some spring temperatures and then we are grateful to say that the groundhog did not see his shadow and we will get an early spring!
Kind of funny this week, we went to Panda Express and I had been waiting all week to go there be a use I was just craving it so much! We sat down at our table and there is an older gentleman who looks over at us and yells "Oh thanks to my god I get to be near to beautiful women!" Awkward!
We politely, yet awkwardly smile and we start to say our prayer over the fattening Chinese food and then start eating. This man continues to talk with us and yes it's a rare thing to see young people praying over food and how much of a blessing we were! We introduce ourselves and he gets excited about how we are from the LDS church and that we are Mormon. He was just completely, entirely happy :) we ended up reading a scripture with him and he acted as though we had given him a breath of life! So cool! Gave him a Book of Mormon and our phone number! We looked at each other afterwards grateful for the opportunity :)
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| I've painted our Savior Jesus Christ and the Louisville Temple |
We must have biked at least 17 or more miles this week. My knees have started to ache, not new for my family ;) but it has shown me that the faster we bike the greater our desire to share the gospel.We had the opportunity to serve a potential investigator. We have been trying to get a hold of this man for a lesson for over a month now! Finally we had the time and opportunity to meet outside with him. This poor man has stage four cancer. We taught him and then he started to get cold so he went inside. Not before going inside had we offered to help him rake his leaves. We set a time to come back and raked them. This mans name is Kyle Dickey and is super nice! After serving him he offered for us to come inside to teach him, we quickly declined since we needed another female to be with us. It was probably no longer than five minutes his wife came home and we were able to go inside and teach them both! Yay! His wife actually lived in Utah and doesn't like Mormons but listened to us anything. We answered questions and brother dickey told us he read about Joseph smith and the Book of Mormon in the pamphlet we gave him and a few weeks back read the first chapter in the Book of Mormon! What?! We were so excited!
We are teaching him the restoration, yay!
At church yesterday we were pulled aside by brother hale telling us that he had a missionary experience and then walked away! I yelled at him, telling him that that wasn't fair so we sat down during sacrament, waiting for his testimony. we have been working with them to share the gospel with their neighbors whom they greatly desire should receive the gospel. President Gordon B. Hinckley states that members are the best way to declare the gospel. Brother hale bore his testimony stating that since they have been praying and fasting their prayers were answered. Their neighbors had asked to bring left overs to them and suddenly started to ask about their granddaughter who is going to be married in the temple in a few months. They explained families being together forever and not just this life. They bore pure testimony. WOW. It was amazing, dad! We plan to go back and prepare the Hale's to bare testimony again and continue to share the gospel in many ways! The gospel is true!
Yesterday we were outside our area , in the eldersarea. We were heading to visit a member whose father passed away yesterday. I saw a man, probably around your age, he was carrying in his few groceries and he dropped his banana under his car and was bending over to grab them, so I biked right on over. We started talking to him and he was not interested in talking because he was having a terrible day. I looked at him and asked what happened, I almost felt like I was Heavenly Father looking at him, like a tender parent and I felt compassion for him. He looked at us confused and unsure but told us his whole world had fallen apart. He used to be the Vice President of CVS and made triple figures and has a great family and drove a work vehicle and everything you could imagine. But it all had gone down hill because he is an alcoholic. He said he was losing his wife soon and had already lost his son. I started to tear up and also smile because I knew what portion he might have felt and had experienced similar events. I explained to him that God was aware, that He has a plan for his life and to trust Him in everything. I told him that if he did that God would strengthen him in his trials and the blessings would rain upon him as I have seen it rain upon me and my family. He told us he was grateful have friends like us and that he loved us. I know we were led across his path.
I know my companion and I are being exactly obedient and since by so doing we have seen those little miracles that will impact not only work in this area but in generations to come. I hope and pray ya'll's week is full of preparing for the blessings God has in store for you.
I know this gospel is true and that we are the elect of his children!
Stay strong and press forward!Love, sister Jones
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