5.23.16
This week has been very busy! Saying goodbye to a ward you love
and
then trying to adjust to a new ward is quite the emotional
roller
coaster! The Tuesday before transfers we had one last zone
service
project at a lady's house named Paulette. We helped her paint a
bunch
of lawn furniture, helped cut her grass and did a lot of other
yard
work. Paulette was a super nice lady, she ended up feeding the
whole
zone! It was good food too. Paulette used to be a zoo
keeper, and due
to that she had some pretty sweet animals. She has two giant
tortoises, a peacock and ring tailed Lemurs!! I will attach
pictures:)
It was pretty sweet. It was a great way to end the transfer, I
truly
will miss the Hurst zone and all of the missionaries I got to
serve
around. They are incredible.
So I am not actually white washing,
elder Mormann has been here for 6
weeks. Im pretty happy that I don't have to white wash! It would
have
been fun, but it relieved a tone of stress:)Both wards
(the YSA is
actually a branch) are awesome! There are a lot of cool members
to
love and serve! Elder Mohrmann and I have already seen quite a
few
miracles in this area. The first one came on Friday night. We
were
feeling a little down and I was feeling some anxiety about the
area.
Well that night we went to teach a man who was excommunicated
and is
now going to be baptized again. He is a super nice man! He
actually
grew up in Big Springs and I believe he know the Jones family.
As we
were teaching him, his daughter came in and told us that she had
been
talking to her daughter who is 9 about baptism. The daughter
said she
would love to be baptized! We are going to get in touch with
them this
week and set up an appointment to start teaching her:) It was
such a
tender mercy and it lifted our spirits. The next day we had the
chance
to go sing hymns for an older folks home. The Copperas Cove 2nd
sisters joined us. It was a little uncomfortable at first, but
once
you forget yourself and started focusing on the people you were
singing too and really show them that you loved them through
your eyes
and smiles it turned out to be pretty good experience. After the
service we eat lunch and then went out to try by a couple
potentials/formers. As we were trying to visit them, we talked
with
everyone and were able to give out 3 Book of Mormons. We meet
some
cool people. There was this one lady named Patty who was super
nice to
us. We talked to her for a while and ended up teaching her about
the
Book of Mormon and part of the Restoration. She was pretty
interested
and was excited when we gave her a copy of the Book of Mormon.
We have
a return appointment with her this Saturday. We also ran
into a less
active man on the same street. We were walking down it and we
heard
"hey elders". We started talking to him and found out
that he hadn't
been to church in a while, mostly due to his service in the
army. He
was super cool. His wife and two girls are converts. We set up a
time
to go see them, we are going to do our best to get them to
church.The
last tender mercy happened last night. We went on exchange with
a
member of the YSA, named Brandon. He is an awesome member
missionary.
We went to this apartment complex to visit an investigator. As
we were
knocking the door a guy to the left of us sitting outside his
door
asked what church we were from. We told him and then talked to
the
lady we were going to see. We set up an appointment with her and
then
decided to go talk to the guy. He had gone inside, so we went to
knock
on his door. I asked the member if he had ever given a Book of
Mormon
out and he said he had not. I asked him if he would be up to
giving
one to the man, and he agreed. Well he knock on the door and a
different, younger guy answered. It happened to be a buddy that
our
member had played football with! He accepted a Book of Momron
and even
said he might come to church. It was a pretty neat experience.
God has
been really good to us this week! I have a good feeling about
this
area. I testify that God answered prayers and that he wants each
and
everyone of us to be happy and to have joy and success. Have an
awesome week!
Love,
Elder Griffin
P.S. Congrats on getting your eagle Nate!!! Also congrats to
Jake on
getting
his mission call to Mexico City:)
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