So Ryan went and broke the first bone in the family huh? Not a good door to be opening bill, hah. I hope you are doing good man, that sucks. You'll tell me how it happened of course. Im going to make a guess. You over-shot the landing and landed flat and your chest came down and smacked the handlebars....and you fell off the side of the bike and whimpered a little? thats my guess. Fill me in broseph! I hope you are doing good, you're in my prayers.
So last week we did really good number wise, and had some good results too! so on monday we went with Bro Mcduffie(our crazy mission leader)to help him with his hometeaching. well we got to the house and shared the message and he said we had to go, so we were there a total of like 10 minutes. When we got outside he said "I lied to those people.....Im not doing good, follow me to the hospital"......then he got in his car, so the whole time we were following him we were coming up with some pretty crazy conclusions about what was happening. We had heard that he has schizophrenia and minieres. So that leaves a whole slew of things, but after the 25 minute drive we reached the hospital and he gets out of the car and says. "im having a stroke, watch me walk in and make sure i make it." then he takes off.....leaving us more confused than ever and it was just crazy. Turns out they released him that night and everything was fine as far as i know. but dang man, He just drove 20 miles thinking he was going to have a stroke. Thats pretty crazy if you ask me. so that was our fun P-day night!
We went on tradeoffs with the ZL's this past wednesday. I love going with the ZL's they are always good dudes. we were actually able to see Christi Zattlin! i have tried to see her for months and finally got to talk to her and teach her. It was way cool. Shes an inactive member and she is way sweet. She has two kids that are way fun too. she said she will come back to church one of these next few sundays. so thats good. shes a recent convert that hasnt been to church in like a year or so. We are hoping we can start teaching her husband and maybe bring them all into the church.
So i cant remember if i told you guys, but this wednesday we have an appointment with the Kimblers, they are the family that we found a while back, We are mostly teaching Noel and Stephanie. But this wednesday we are going to go over and teach them the plan of salvation and 6:00 and hopefully we will get done with it by 7:30 because the young women here are going to stop by and meet her and bring some goodies(you know how girls are) and try to friendship her so she will come to church and feel welcome! How swet is that! If we can get these girls to church they are golden! So im way excited about it! We are having trade-offs that day too. And im going to have a young missionary with me, so it could be very interesting how it all plays out. im really excited for it though. that apartment is going to be crowded! ewww cooties.....
We saw grandma Haycraft again. She fed us dinner and we had a really good discussion about Prophets and the Spirit. She is so sincere when she asks too, ive never had anyone like that. I cant really pin her down yet, but i think she is a possible baptism in the near future. i call her grandma, because she is almost as sweet and nice and wonderful as my grandmas, so i go over there and sit down on the recliner and just chat with her. Shes just a little bit paranoid and crazy, hah. its all good. She wants us to come over one night with our guitars so we can sit around the fire and play for her. so that might be coming up.
We saw Scott a few different times last week. He is making progress with his coffee. or he is lying to us, im not 100 percent sure which one it is. But i have faith he will do the right thing. this is his last week to quit. The branch has been talking about setting up the food and everything for his baptism, so everyone is getting really excited about it, which is good. its been about a year since they have had a baptism. I hope i get to stay here one more transfer, i can see a bunch of good happening real soon.
Sister Wysocki had us over friday night to watch some fireworks, she buys a bunch of illegal fireworks and invites us over to watch them. haha that was sweet. We are going over there today to help her train her dog a little bit and golf a little and teach a lesson. So thats always good. This next week we are busy.....we have two sets of trade-offs, ill be staying in KKK(Kalkaska for short, or KaKaKa, like a crow would) for both of them thankfully, then we have interviews after that. plus we always have to come up with like 4 people for each split we go on with the members. so hopefully everything turns out.
This week i have been reading some of David A. Bednars training on Faith. It has been very very interesting, i wish i could remember everything from the first talk. This morning i read his talk on Asking in Faith. And i think it was very irefreshing how he brought up that asking in faith, isnt just praying its acting and asking What we should do. He used the example of Joseph Smith. When he was searching for the right church to join in his history he asks the question What is to be done? not simply what church is right. But which church should i join. He was asking for something that he fully intended to act on. he asked in Faith. He also used this example. And i have been guilty of this in the past..When we pray for the missionaries, we often say that they will be led to those searching for the gospel. and a lot of people dont know this, i didnt think about it before my mission, but missionaries are Full-time teachers, members are supposed to be the finders. in a perfect setting missionaries would never go out looking for people, members shold be giving them enough names to keep them busy so they dont have to find. There is a member here who went to Pocatello on his mission. He said he did a total of two hours of finding in his entire mission, thats becasuse the members were so good at finding for them. Elder Bednar said," Dont pawn your duty onto others!" hah so that was really interesting. just thought id share. But he said when we pray we should ask to have a missionary experience, someone to share the gospel with, pray for the strength to be able to share it and then when the opportunity comes up to do it! He said that if we would do that then missionary work would go forward ina remarkable way. And its true. Faith is the basis of everything in the gospel! everything rests upon our faith in Christ. And i know if we have enough faith, that we will grow more than we ever thought possible, and if we are truly willing to act, we will be given experiences here that will shape our lives for the better and strengthen our resolve for the work which we are called to do. I love you guys and hope everything goes well back home. Have a good week. The church is true!
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\m/ ~ Elder Larsen ~ \m/
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