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| Let's start with a picture. Have you ever seen anyone getting such a kick out of a cat?!? This cat went door to door with them one day and Parker apparently thought it was hilarious!!! |
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| Chanielle and Justin and their boys. Hard to say goodbye. |
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| Last time at their house with this little guy! |
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| Cobb Family Home the night before leaving Bay City |
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| Suzette and Jacob came to watch General Conference |
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| One of the many bridges they cross all the time. If you don't time it right, you will be waiting 15 mins. |
conference was great! i have always loved president
uchtdorf’s talks and this week was no different! we watched conference at the
church with the investigators who came and a few members. it was a great
experience. its funny being out here, cuz seeing salt lake and all the
thousands of saints gathered there, it seems like this mystical, magical place
and almost seems fake in a way that there are that many mormons haha its
like... i want to go there and see for myself that its real haha. so i can only
imagine how our investigators feel, sitting in a near empty chapel watching
this amazing scene on a 24 inch tv haha. it was awesome to hear all of the many
talks on missionary work! especially elder gifford nielsen!(former BYU football player and then Houston Oilers) soo cool to see him
speak at general conference! especially on missionary work. its not going to
slow down any time soon, so we might as well get involved! remember that as a
member in missionary work, you should not keep your mouth closed because you
are afraid someone will say no. success is not if they get baptized, but if you
give them the opportunity to use their agency. if you extend and invitation,
then you have already been successful, regardless of the answer! so pray each
night as families for opportunities to share the gospel. leaders of the church
have promised the Lord will provide opportunities that are not awkward or
difficult, but will be natural for both parties. so what are we waiting for?
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| Parker with his District |
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| The poor Sister Missionaries!!!
It's like they don't quite know what to do with these guys.
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this week was great though, but not
a whole lot changed from last week. we have quite a few people on date to be
baptized right now, and it has been awesome to see the work grow and progress here
in Bay City. I am so grateful for the Lord's Hand in His work.
something WAYY funny happened this
week. so we pull up to our apartment the other night. and this guy pulls his
car right in front of ours and gets out and asks if we will pray with him. his
name is bob and he just got out of surgery. after relating to us his life story, he takes our hands and
tells me to pray. as i prayed, he was saying, "mmmhmm! amen!" and
stuff like that. after that, he asks elder bass to pray. at the end of the
prayer he asks if elder bass is ahead in his studies, and then goes on to say
he asked because his prayer was better than mine. he said that i needed to keep
working and listening to him and things. it was soo funny. we were busting up
about it forever.
well, that’s not the end. so this
morning, we got to our apartment after we did laundry and he was down the
street. he walks over and asks us if we will come preach at this party he is
having for children...? haha anyway, he asks us to pray again. so i went first.
and i was saying a prayer full of scriptural language and quotes and things and
then i finished my prayer. he says that was pretty good... and then he asks
elder bass to pray. well in the middle of elder bass' prayer, he paused for a
second, and when he paused bob said, "err! times up!" he then told us
that I was better today and that i must have been working hard cuz my prayer
was just better today hahahahaha. he said he will ask us to pray with him
whenever he sees us. so elder bass and i were laughing cuz it has turned into
like.. a rap battle with prayers. we are both praying to try and impress bob
and stuff. and you have to bring your "A" game every day haha it was
super funny.
one thing i loved really quick was
from president uchtdorf: “doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith.” the adversary would have us doubt what
we know to be true over some foolish thought he puts into our minds. so always
doubt what you haven’t tested through time and study and prayer, rather than
doubting your faith that has sustained and guided you through so much.
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| I think the River of Time was the most fun they have had in a while haha!!! |
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