Waffles and Blessings

This was a great week here in Almaden. We have been trying to find more people to teach and things are going well. Elder Matthias and I got to be mission presidents for a day when president Mella went to a conference in Monterey. It was so fun to drive the Avalon and enjoy the mission. I am happy here and things are going great. We saw several miracles this past week from recent converts moving into the area to a powerful blessing with the Bishop. Things are great.

Spiritual: This week we have been really putting the petal to the metal when it comes to finding more people to teach. We have a lot of investigators that are good, but floating around. It’s hard to meet with them and hard as well to help them understand sacrifice and blessings.  We have started visiting all the part member families in the ward and seeing the level of interest. We went over yesterday to a family that had asked to stop having missionaries come over a while back. They were really burnt out with the church and needed a break. We went over there hoping for a glimmer of light and it came in full force. When we knocked on the door a woman came out that was a little stressed. We asked her if she was the person that was on our directory. She said she was and that she was a little stressed right now. We asked her why and she told us that her husband had been admitted to the ICU with a tear in his aorta and a mass on his Kidney. Yikes.  She said she was on her way there and we asked if he would like a blessing. She said yes and then we were off. We got the bishop to meet us there and then we went and gave him a blessing. It sounds a lot worse than it actually is. He was sitting up in bed and looked happy. We talked to him and he told us that he was leaning on the Lord through this whole process. The blessing from the bishop was great and then we left. After the bishop told us what a changed man that man was from the first time he had met him. It sounded like a totally different person than who we had met. It was a testimony to me that the Lord uses his servants to do his work. Sometimes it takes a humbling experience to bring people to him. I am so grateful to be a part of this work.

Funny: In Almaden we drive the transfer van. A huge 8 passenger van that we use to move missionaries around. Because the mission presidents seminar was in Monterey President needed the van to shuttle mission presidents. In preparation the van was detail cleaned. It looked beautiful. So of course the next day as we were getting ready to go make waffles for some missionaries, the waffle batter spilled all over. Ha ha; it was a good example of how Murphy’s Law works. It came out just fine. Just one of those funny situations. :)

Where I am at: Things are great. I love my mission. I am happy to be here and serving in the way that I am. I love you all!