Some nice things happened!
Early this week we had been waiting for he rain to stop and it finally did after like 3 or 4 days of raining so we hurried to go do some service at a members home on the Res! But the rain soon came back about a quarter of the way so we stopped at a members home, we were soaked! 🌧 and they let us in and we sat next to the fire for about an hour telling story's. That was fun and then the rain stopped so we hurried again and we didn't get soaked anymore that day! Yay!!
This member brother wurdamann told us of a story of when he converted to the church. His dad was very against the church and said we were crazy out west and that he would even pay for him to drive out there
and explore with his brother just to show him how crazy Mormons were!! Hahah so he did and he went with his brother and the very first campsite they went to they had some nice people next to them and come to find out it's a bishop of a ward! And his family had them stay with them the whole time they stayed there and they feed them until they continued on there journey! So they meet another bishop of a ward while at sacrament one Sunday and he invites him and his brother to stay the night and they feed them breakfast and what not! And then he
went to another sacrament and the service had already started so his brother and him ran in and set next to the first cute girls they could find and come to find out it was the bishops daughter and he stayed with that bishop and worked for him for the next 8 or so months until he could serve his mission! The Lord really does prepare his children to do the work!!
We had a lesson with the Cooper family at the bishops and bishop told a story of when he was on his mission. He was struggling and his mom knew so she sent a letter of a story of Hugh B. Brown and it goes like this:
In 1904, when I was 21 years old, I was called on a mission to England, and my mother accompanied me to the local railway station to tell me goodbye. Just before the train pulled out, she said, “Hugh, do you remember when you were a little boy and you often had nightmares? You’d wake up in the night and call out to me in the next room, ‘Mother, Mother, are you there?’ And I’d reply, ‘Yes, my boy, I’m
here. Everything’s all right, just turn over and go to sleep.’” Then she said, “You always did; you went right to sleep, and there was no more trouble. Now you’re going nearly 10,000 miles away. You’ll want to call to me, but I’ll not be able to hear you. There will be difficulties, and there will be nightmares in the daytime when your
eyes are wide open. There will also be worries and problems to plague you. “But I want you to understand that though I will not be able to hear you, someone will hear you. And if you’ll call out with the faith that you had when you were a little boy, if you’ll call out and say, ‘Father, are you there?’ I promise you, son, he’ll answer you. You may not hear his voice, you may not see his form, but he’ll answer you and you’ll receive comfort from the knowledge that he’s there and that he cares; and figuratively speaking, you’ll turn over and go to sleep no
matter what the situation may be.”
And bishop shared how he has done that and the room filled with the spirit and he said I know he's there! Really powerful!
So we helped this old lady fix an extension cord and she wanted us to put a male part on the female part side of the cord so we explained that it was gonna work but her old age was really playing hard with her so me and my companion laughed and just did what she wanted. After it was done we showed her and she still thought it was perfect so we said show us how your gonna use it and she showed us and we explained that it wasn't gonna work so she said it will just plug it into the wall so we did and then she realized that the other side wasn't gonna work so she had us put the other side in the wall and we did and she finally realized what was going on but it was hilarious!!!
Thanks for all you do and for those of you who wrote me... I'll be sending them out soon love you!!
Love elder Nelson.
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