What an
eventful week!
I got a speeding ticket gerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. They have frontage roads here in Texas - so I thought I was getting on the free way but a cop nailed me. I had no Idea. I thought I was just accelerating to get on the I-10 - but I get the ticket and I didn't know any better and all the drivers with the Chihuahua license plates get of Scott free. Oh well, the Lord will take care of my $298 dollar ticket some how....
Well, last Friday we woke up and looked to our little patio and noticed my companion’s bike was gone - which baffles us because his was an old rusty bike that was given to him by the mission. They left my bike which is very nice. My camouflage worked! I had wrapped my whole bike frame in electrical tape so it looked like garbage. Nevertheless I am keeping my bike inside the apartment now - no matter what anyone tells me.
I got a speeding ticket gerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. They have frontage roads here in Texas - so I thought I was getting on the free way but a cop nailed me. I had no Idea. I thought I was just accelerating to get on the I-10 - but I get the ticket and I didn't know any better and all the drivers with the Chihuahua license plates get of Scott free. Oh well, the Lord will take care of my $298 dollar ticket some how....
Well, last Friday we woke up and looked to our little patio and noticed my companion’s bike was gone - which baffles us because his was an old rusty bike that was given to him by the mission. They left my bike which is very nice. My camouflage worked! I had wrapped my whole bike frame in electrical tape so it looked like garbage. Nevertheless I am keeping my bike inside the apartment now - no matter what anyone tells me.
Later
that day we talked to some one in our apartment complex who came up to us
and asked us if we sold Bibles. We gave
him a Bible and a Book of Mormon and told him about them. The guy looked kind of sketchy and I just
thought, “Ok - he is a guy who wants to change.” We came back to our apartment before we went
to our dinner appointment (which was green Chile chicken enchiladas - oomph
they are so delicious!). We looked
around and noticed that my companion’s digital picture frame was missing - and
some of the portable DVD players we have to show investigators church videos. We
drove to the police office and they told us to go home and call the police so
they could do an investigation. [crazy] They took some prints and such. The next
Monday we had an undercover cop come to our apartment to follow up with us. He rolled up in a PT cruiser, that is an
ingenious under cover car, Elder Goff and I still chuckle about it. The
previous Sunday we found the returned picture frame on our door step after we
returned home from church. Before we
went to church we talked to the same guy we gave the Bible to. The police
dusted it for prints also. The same guy came over to ask to use our phone right
when the cops where there - so it is interesting to see this whole thing unfold
and to say that I lived in the middle of a crime scene investigation.
On the
other hand we ate dinner at a very wealthy member’s house and were talking
about scriptures. He said mine where too
big for a dinosaur. So he bought me an
Easter present and ordered me a custom new set of smaller scriptures - which I
am so thankful for because mine were getting way too marked up. Now that I
have figured out how, I properly mark my scriptures they will be so pretty. :) It is weird how receptive people have been
lately. we have been contacting using
the Book of Mormon and nothing else and people have been so receptive. I feel
weird not getting any doors slammed in my face in a while - or the same, “I am Catholic
and I am satisfied” response. People are interested what the Book of Mormon can
do for them, and I can testify that it does more than we understand. We have
several people on date to be baptized. I can see the adversary working on them -
but I know that God is more powerful than anyone. I know that this is the
fullness of times, Christ is coming and his kingdom is being rebuilt on the Earth
today. Heavenly father loves us all. I have been pondering the word spoken by
the Lord to Joseph Smith when he was in Liberty Jail - in D&C section 122.
9 Therefore,
hold on thy way, and the priesthood shall remain with thee; for their bounds
are set, they cannot pass. Thy days are known, and thy years shall not be
numbered less; therefore, fear not what man can do, for God shall be with you
forever and ever.
Remember whatever
struggles we have Christ has already experienced them for us. Let us
all press forward with a steadfastness of hope and an eye single to the glory
of God.
Mom, I think you should read 1st Nephi chapter 5. Sariah was a worried mother and then when Nephi returned from his mission she realized how blessed she was. I love you Mommmmy:)
I love you all so much
and I love what the gospel of Jesus Christ can do for each of us!
P.S. - my new address is: 1531 George dieter apt.# 1101 - It is across the street from our last apartment here in El Paso.
P.S. - my new address is: 1531 George dieter apt.# 1101 - It is across the street from our last apartment here in El Paso.
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