Mini Miracle

Dear Family, 

 

 

I hope you all are doing great. I had another great week, there is lot that happened. I got a new companion on Tuesday. His name is elder Pollmann and he is from southern Utah in small town called Minersville. He has been out for 14 months now. He is great and we get along well. 

This week has been little slow as far as teaching goes. Most of our appointments got cancelled on us. We did a lot of finding and tracting. We were able to get some return appointments out of that. On Thursday we found this older lady in a wheelchair. She doesn't have both of her legs. She was trying to sweep her driveway when we found her. We stopped and offered her help and she allowed us to help. After we got done we asked her if it's okay to share a message with her and she allowed us. We taught her little bit about the plan of salvation on her front porch. We weren't able to teach her the whole thing because her grandson got home from school. She seems a little interested when we talked about the purpose of life, and how things happens for a reason. She is really sweet lady and willing to have us back.

We were also able to see this mini miracle on Friday. Most of our appointments got cancelled on us on Friday and then we decided to do tracting. As we knocked on doors nobody really seemed interested but we accidentally met this lady named Jay. We took her parking spot and she came home as we were getting out of the car to see one of our potential. She stopped her car on the road and told us how we took her parking spot. We then slowly got talking to her and she was very nice. She believes in having a Christian lifestyle but doesn't believe too much in the bible. We told her how we believe the bible to be a word of God as far as it is translated correctly and then testified to hear about the book of Mormon. We had her read intro and she asked for a copy. At the end we asked if we can meet with her to talk to her more about the BOM. She said in order to meet it would have to be somewhere other than her home because her father is atheist. She seemed pretty solid and we are excited to meet with her some time. 

We had stake conference yesterday and it was really amazing. Our mission president and his wife came and gave a talk. They gave really great talk on missionary work and temples. They talked about how our ultimate goal as a missionaries is to get the people to the temple. The other speakers also talked a lot about keeping the sabbath day holy. It was really great stake conference. 

I know that we will be blessed as we keep the sabbath day holy.

 

 Jessica Rudderforth texted us and told me how happy you were and how that made your day. Jessica was really happy too that you emailed her back and thanked her. They are really great family and love the missionaries. Jessica actually used to live in Rexburg. She grew up in Idaho False and went to college in BYU-I. And I will thank them again for you. (They took and sent the picture above.)

That is awesome how Luke is having a new teethes. Why is he being grumpy? Is that because it hurts when the baby's get a new teeth? Wow all the sports season is almost over? That went by so fast. Sounds like you and Damitu had really fun time at Lindsey Sterling's concert. She has a Mormon message video and I watched that with elder Mackay. She is really great at playing the violin and dancing at the same time.

The weather is getting really cold here. This morning it was 28 degrees. It is getting dark here super early too. That kind of makes missionary work hard. People gets mad when we knock on their door at 7:00 because it's dark and seems like it's in the middle of night. Taking over the area is kind of hard for me too. It's a lot of responsibilities, my new companion just expect me to make all the decisions. This past week was probably the hardest week for me, it was really stressful. But it's not too bad. Thank you so much for everything and have a great week.

 

Love Mubarek!