GOOD MORNING CREW. What a good week it has been so let me tell you about it. It was off to a good start beginning with Tuesday. One thing Elder Woolsey and I are focusing on in the Grand Valley Ward is the youth. We are trying to build good relationships with them to help them potentially prepare for and serve a mission. Tuesday evening there was a youth get together at a members home and we got invited over by the members. There was pizza, soda, and ice cream. I haven't had any of these three items in so long since I have been trying to eat better. Elder Woolsey and I pounded a pizza, a lot of ice cream, and too much soda together. The game we played with all the youth was on the TV through a game called jackbox.tv. It was such a hilarious game that had everyone involved. We had no regrets from coming to this youth party.
Wednesday we brought along a guess to our usual weekly district council meetings. The stake president's family, The Buckwalter's our in our ward. One of their sons whose name is Adam just got set apart as a missionary last week. Now since he is the same gender and is a missionary, we are now allowed to drive him places. We picked him up Wednesday morning and drove him to our district council which was the Spanish district in our Zone. This was good for Adam since he is speaking Spanish as he departs to Ecuador in the next 2 months. A fun experience I had to write about.
The evening on Wednesday will be memorable forever. Elder Woolsey and I have not been having the success we would like to see in this area for the past month now. Towards the latter end of our day we were driving around deciding on where to go. We ended up just visiting an inactive member and it turns out that member doesn't live there anymore. As we were leaving we spot a man across the street named Dion. He is a high-school football coach and teacher, has three D1 athlete kids, and would seem from the outside to have a great life. He was the most energetic and happy person I have met in the 13 months I have been a missionary. He opened up to us saying that he had a breakdown about 24 hours ago with his mother since he has been away from The Lord. As we introduced The Book of Mormon into the conversation, he lit up. He was amazed that Jesus Christ visited the Americas (I know Taylor… CRAZY) and he was shook that God still has prophets on the earth today. As we testified boldly of The Book of Mormon, he looked down at the book that I had in my hands and said,"Wowww, that makes me want to have one. Can I touch it?" The spirit testified to him that we are messengers from God to deliver His message. He will be the best person I will teach in my whole mission if he continues to progress. We needed him in our lives to bring us hope and he needed us. God continues to bless his servants.
Friday was an awesome day. It began with having our apartment inspected. You know me… we passed with flying colors. It is nice that you can deep clean a small apartment in less than one hour. You already know the spirit dwells in its fullness in our apartment.
Later in the afternoon we met in Lansing. We had a Mission Leadership Council. This was one of the last times where I would see Elder Tueller. We talked a lot about how we can be more effective missionaries and man I need to prioritize more things. We have been focusing a lot on preaching by the way (door knocking) and that pond is so not effective. It just makes me feel the MOST effective. Weird how Satan works. We had some BBQ for lunch and it is always great to hear instructions from President Heap. It took up a big chunk of our day. We also got transfer calls in person that day. After we closed with prayer, President Heap went around the room one by one calling us by name and announcing our transfer calls. Elder Woolsey and I get to run it back one more transfer together at least. This is the first time where I get a companion for two transfers since I trained Elder Hanson in Bay City. We are so excited. Also crazy news was that we are getting two completely new STLs to work with. Jared knows how that goes…
We have a baptism this coming Saturday for our friend Alan. He is so excited, but he doesn't have a car, which is tough. The members here are willing and he hasn't missed church for the past four weeks. God continues to gather his children, hurrah for Israel!
Love you all so much. I am thankful I am a fulltime missionary. This is my season to preach the gospel, westons season is coming. I'm always available to talk. Reach out to me on messenger. Have an amazing week!
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