1. Can you give us an update about your 18-year-old
that wants to be baptized? Any progress with his parents?
1. Yeah I’ll update
down below.
2. What about the lady in the hospital?
2. Same
3. Now that you’re headed to the finish line what
things about Washington will you miss?
3. Haha well! I will
miss a lot of things. There is this great pacific northwest culture up here
that I have grown to love. But I will miss the trees! I know there are trees in
Utah but it’s not quite the same.
4. Have you started the coming home program they
have the missionaries do now? I can’t remember what it’s called.
4. Yes it’s called My
Plan. Some of it seems kinda silly because I’ve had a plan for a long time but
there is a lot of it that is very helpful. Gets me thinking about the
future.
So this week was
pretty crazy! God has given us some serious blessings this week. This is going
to be hard to update you on, but I’ll try my best.
First off. The 18-year-old
had a long talk with his parents and they want him to really make sure that he
wants to join the church. Which is kinda ridiculous because he has asked like
every question ever. He knows more than any other person I’ve taught. But he
has decided to try to respect his parents and also be a part our church so he
is waiting until December to get baptized so that’s good and also frustrating.
Second. We went over
to give a blessing to Trina who is the lady who was in the hospital. So we went
over Monday night and her whole family was there. Tommy who is 18 and engaged
to his girlfriend Mara were also there. Along with her son Rylin, daughter
Taylor and son Preston. We gave Trina a blessing and then after a long talk and
a lot of teaching we gave Tommy a blessing too.
Backtrack about a
month ago…we got haircuts and the girl who cut Elder Robb’s hair was talking to
him about God and she wanted to learn more and gave us her number on the back
of the receipt. Well a couple days later we realized we had lost the number! We
were super bummed and then we show up at Trina’s and guess who is there? Mara,
the girl who cut Elder Robb’s hair! She just happens to be engaged to Tommy, Trina’s
son! What the heck!
Ok, then we give Trina
a blessing. We get talking with Tommy and he has had a rough past year and
really needed some God in his life. But, right at first, he was very opposed to
missionaries and God and he didn’t want to have anything to do with it. But,
after a blessing to Trina he was curious and we convinced him to let us give
him a blessing! I’ll tell you what, there was a lot more that went into this
that is just too hard for me to explain but it was a very spiritual experience
and at the end of the night we were planning on meeting with the whole family
on Wednesday. After meeting on Wednesday, we now have a family of 5 people on
date for baptism and they came to church on Sunday! Overall that’s probably confusing
but we have been so blessed to find this family and they are so ready for the
gospel!
That’s about all for
this week. It was pretty crazy though! Tomorrow we have zone conference with
about a 3rd of the mission so it will be huge! I’m super excited but also sad
because it will be my last zone conference!
I don’t know if you
remember them but Elder King and Elder Bennett (from my mtc group) fly home
today so that’s a little weird.
Love ya!
-Elder St. John
MLC
Elder Jackson, Elder Bennett, Elder St. John, Elder King
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