Soooo. Story time. We were doing outdoor sacrament with the elders (we still don't have in person church here haha help but also it's fine because we just get together as missionaries and do a little sacrament). Well in the middle of sacrament a car rolled up and we were like huh? Well when we finished sacrament he came out of his car and started talking to us. He asked if this was just a missionary thing and if there were any close by church services. Turns out, he is from utah and came here for work! So we talked with him and he was so sweet! He asked if he could take pictures of us to document, ah this man was just so tender. Well, while he's talking to us, Sister Carr turned to me and whispered, wait, I know his voice. WAIT he's in The Best Two Years I think!! Well 2 days before we had met this person who we were like, WAIT we think he's an NBA player, but WE DIDNT ASK. And then we regretted it big time. So I was like, ask him ask him!! And so Sister Carr was like, "hey, are you in the best 2 years??" And he was like oh yeah! And ALL OF US were like WOW WHAT!! And that was way fun. I'll attach some pictures. Way good times. Ah that was epic.
This week FLEW. It was so amazing!! Some really cool miracles that happened with our friends:
Sharmistha
She is this cute cute lady and recently she's had a lot of questions about woman and the priesthood. And I was like oookay how do we approach this?? Be cause I'm honestly not great at explaining this. Well we had 2 lessons on it and during our second lesson, she just went all, oh I get it. And something just clicked inside of her and she explained it to us!! It was AMAZING.
Bryan
Every time we teach Bryan he is so down, but never really does his commitments and is usually distracted. Well this week we've been making good progress with him! We taught him twice and they were both just tender experiences. We had read 1 Nephi 1 and he told us he liked it, so we told him he could watch the Book of Mormon video. We sent it and the next time, he told us he LOVED it and said that he will always keep that video in his heart (how cute!!) And then he told us he has a really hard time with reading and understanding and he doesn't like reading, but when he read the Book of Mormon, he likes it. And we talked about how that was the spirit confirming truth to him. And then he was talking about how he knew this book would save him. It just helped me see that wherever people are in their life, if they understand scripture or not, that there are people prepared and if they have that desire, God will help them.
Keith
Oh keith. I love this man. So he is one of those people that loves Jesus and everything with God and sings praises. Amazing man. Sometimes though it's a little hard to get across to him that there was a Great Apostasy and that we needed a restoration and that the restoration is different than anything else that's ever happened before. Well we were going over the restoration, and he was like, where is Joseph Smith's name in the Bible? And we were like oof okay how do we answer this one. Well, we talked about the Great Apostasy in the Bible, and then we read Moroni 10:3-5. And then all of a sudden he goes all (by the way, he's very knowledgable with the scriptures), oh. I understand. I believe what you said about Joseph Smith. Ah the spirit was SO STRONG! Now our next step, helping understanding that this is the one true church(:
This week was so good! I also got to go on exchanges with Sister Perez. She's so sweet, pretty quiet, but she is so kind!
This email is already pretty long already, but if you made it this far, congrats! I love you all!!!
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