Hello
Everyone!
Hope you
are all doing well. Thank you for the emails/letters and pictures. Miss you
all! And for the people of Idaho's sake I will change all their names because I
heard a story of a man leaving the church because his missionary wrote home
about him and posted it on the internet.
This week
started off awesome. Monday, we taught four lessons in a matter of hours. We
usually are unable to teach that many in a whole day. From that experience, I
though the week was going to be awesome, that everything would be turning
around. Nope I was wrong. Elder Downey has started this program called
"Elder Downey Be quiet days" On those days he does not talk and I am
in charge of all the decisions we make, lessons we teach and talking to people.
Tuesday was one of those days and everything went wrong that could go wrong. All
our appointments cancelled, people were slamming door after door and the people
we talked to told us to go away. We worked our tails off to find someone or at
least do some service for someone. Absolutely nothing! That was a downer of a
day. That night, when I was getting ready for bed I did not want to go to
sleep. My desire to go out and keep serving was too great to let me sleep, so
that night I did not. Sadly once the sun goes down no one will open their doors
even though it is only 6 or 7 o'clock. Wednesday we met a woman
named Angela. She called the bishop of one of our wards telling him she wanted
to learn more about the Church. She is a super nice lady. She has had a rough
past. Drug addiction, abusive marriage, been to jail, not fun stuff. She has
been searching for God and understanding and relief in her life. So we met with
her at noon. ( Elder Downey was in bed all day Wednesday so we did emergency
exchanges to be able to teach her.) We went through the restoration of the
Gospel and the Joseph Smith Story. She absorbed everything. At the end she said
the restoration made sense because she was being restored as well. She has been
keeping her commitments. She is set to be baptized on November 22 at
2:00. She was/is totally prepared by Heavenly Father, no doubt about it.
It showed me that when we work hard having faith in the Lord that He will
provide, He will. We may not always see the fruits of our labor but they are
there. Other than that this week was spent in our house. WE left for a total of
77 minutes in 2 days. Elder Downey has been really sick. We have been praying
to have the strength to go out and the little time we were, we did a lot!
Saturday Elder Downey felt better but lost his voice. I taught lessons by
myself. It was crazy! Great Learning experience. Sunday Elder Downey was back
in bed home sick with Elder Blake that had the flu. So I went out with Elder
Simmons. We had to give a talk in one of their wards. I prepared a 20 minute
talk in an hour. Since I was helping the other missionaries it was a very long
Sunday. We were at a church building at 8 am and ran from
building to building until 4 pm. 8 hours of church takes a toll on you.
For some reason I was very contentious for part of the remaining hours we were
out. Everything was annoying me. We taught a less active family around
7:30. We discussed the atonement and everything that Christ has done for
me in my life. It rejuvenated me and I felt the Spirit working through me. I
was so comforted and happy after that. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real.
He suffered all our pains and sorrows to help me get through my struggles. I am
so grateful for everything He has done for me.
Hope you
all have a great week! Do not forget to pray or study the scriptures!
I suggest
you read Alma 31:26-38! It is AWESOME!
Elder Rush
Elder Rush is a little taller than his fridge!
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