This last week was awesome. We were super busy.
Thursday
was especially fun because it was one of the few days I've ever
experienced that actually sort of went according to plan. We went out first thing
that morning and talked to a whole bunch of people and were able to
contact some people who were previously taught by missionaries and we
set up with them to come back and teach them. Then we scadoodled on back
to the apartment and ate lunch and studied before skedaddling on out
again to try to contact more people and knock on people's doors. After
dinner we scurried on over to the church for basketball night and we saw
an older lady in a motorized wheelchair with her dog outside the
Church. So we went and talked to her, and had the most delightful
conversation! Her name is Linda, and she has a lot of thoughts about
religion and Christianity, and also a lot of questions for us. We talked
with her for a good 30 minutes and she wants us to come back this week
to do some service for her and also teach her. So that's exciting!
Wednesday
was also great. We were able to meet with Aaliyah, and also her brother
Jalen finally. And we set up for a visit with them next week, despite
their crazy busy schedules. They're really awesome and they've been
reading from the Book of Mormon and enjoying what they've been learning.
On
Friday we were recruited by the Sister missionaries to help them do
service for a lady. Her name is Bessie, and she's the most adorable
little old Greek lady I've ever met. She's also the only little old Greek lady I've ever met, but I'm confident that if I ever meet another
one, Bessie will still be the most adorable. She lives down at the most
southeast corner of the ward boundaries which is technically on a Native American reservation, and it's a pretty busy road, and there isn't a
bike lane to get there and so you have to ride on a narrow sidewalk
against the flow of traffic. So that was fun. Then we got there and
there wasn't actually really anything to do, because her son was there
and he was like, "yeah she's kind of not all there, there isn't anything
to do." She was very insistent on us watering her flowers though, but
her son was like, "yeah no it's 115 degrees and the steam from the water
will kill the flowers." So we compromised and pretended to water the
flowers while in reality we just dumped the water out.
Well, some things came up, and I am as out of time as I am out of excuses.
So
here are a couple scripture verses that have been on my mind, and I
would just invite you all to read them and ponder them for yourself.
"He
is the light and the life of the world; yea, a light that is endless,
that can never be darkened; yea, and also a life which is endless, that
there can be no more death."
-Mosiah 16:9, The Book of Mormon
"Who
shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or
distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
sword?... Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through
him that loved us."
-Romans 8:35 & 37, the New Testament
I know Jesus Christ loves us. That's something that I truly know. And I know that He is the light in our lives.
Til next week,
~Elder Oswald
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