Opportunities to Serve

At the border

Buenos!

Well, we've had quite the week here! The weather has been really funky here lately. On Tuesday, we were told to stay inside due to a tornado warning. There weren't any tornadoes near us, but we got hit with a ton of rain and lots and lots of wind. It was weird, because the rest of the week it hasn't been too bad, but today we got snow again. It is literally coming down as I write this.

More Snow!

This week we had a ton of opportunities to do service. There was a family on base at Ft Campbell that we helped move. So we got to go on base quite a few times to help out. However, it took us a few days to get everything moved out and cleaned. We worked a lot getting their old place cleaned up to military standard, so that was fun. Then, we also moved another family later in the week. You'd think that helping people move would be easy for a guy that did a year of furniture moving at BYU, but I guess I'm out of shape because after a few days of moving, my forearms are just wrecked.

We still managed to squeeze in a few lessons this week in between all the service. We met with our two main investigators, G, and G. G is super interested in the church and everything, but she and her son both have lots of health problems that make it hard for her to meet with us. We had a real solid lesson with her this week, and we are hoping that we can get her to church this next Sunday. The other G is interesting. It's funny because we always call people "investigators" even though some of them aren't super interested or whatever. But G is actually investigating. The only problem is the sources she's using to get her info. When we met with her this week, she brought out a little sheet of questions to ask us, and it turned into border-line bashing. She had a lot of questions about living prophets, and the Book of Mormon; she thought that we believed in a different Jesus. She felt like she hadn't received an answer yet, and then she told us that she didn't want to waste our time, and she was about to drop us. Elder W was about to let it happen too, but then I butted in. I thought to myself, "I'm not about to lose an investigator because of this online garbage." So, I talked about asking with real intent, and invited her to try reading and praying one more time, and then I gave probably the strongest testimony about Thomas S. Monson that I've ever given, and honestly, the spirit was great. G committed to read and pray some more, so we are just hoping and praying that she receives an answer.

Let's see, the other fun thing from this week was that we had water damage in our apartment! Apparently, one of our pipes is no bueno. Our shower in the bathroom upstairs has been leaking into the kitchen downstairs. We noticed it on Friday, and called our landlord. However, the plumber was out of town this weekend, so they weren't able to get to it at all the last few days. Hopefully he came today, and it will be fixed when we get home.

Hopefully this will be fixed soon!

Alright, my ponderizing scripture this week is John 21:18, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not." This week I'm trying to focus more on putting my trust in the Lord, trying to do things His way instead of just doing things my way all the time. His way is better, right? We need to trust in the Lord and turn our will over to Him. Well, hope y’all have another good week!

Love,
Elder Mitchell

More pictures from the border

More sleeping pictures

Sunrise over the apartments