Wed, Sept 9, 2015
Hey,
Being a
missionary is the cats pajamas. Y'all should know that.
Random
stuff:
Shot Calls are coming up this Saturday.
Possible changes coming. Or not. Who knows? God knows.
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| My beautiful home for the last 6 months |
We had
MLC (mission leadership council) good times. I would put some of the stuff I
learned but to adequately describe the stuff I learned it would take way to
long for me to type it out. Sooo if you really want to know you can ask me when
I get home.
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| With my homeboy, Elder Nagel at MLC |
It's been
hard work wise lately. We called some of our investigators to schedule an
appointment and instead of saying that they were good to meet they told us that
they are now homeless and living on the street. We went to the park that they
said they were sleeping in but we couldn't find their park bench. It would have
been nice if the park benches had addresses. It breaks my heart to hear stuff
like this though. Seriously. I always thought bad stuff like this happened in
the movies but when terrible things happen to those that you have come to love
it is really hard.
Experience
time:
Elder
Wallace and I were walking out of the church after a lesson and this hombre
came riding up on his bike. He was wearing a fedora. Without saying anything he
asked us right off the bat when church started. We told him the time and he
told us that he wanted to check it out. He said that his whole life he had
judged our church because he gave into a bunch of the rumors that float around
about us. He went to the library and was able to check out the dvd "Meet
The Mormons" he watched it and said that his whole perspective on our
church changed. He felt bad for judging us all these years and wanted to give
us a chance by attending our services.
The
coolest part is that on Sunday he came! He even got up to share his testimony.
It's always scary here when somebody that you don't know too well gets up to
share their testimony because there is no guessing what is going to come out of
their mouth. When he got up he shared a great testimony of how his perspective
on our church changed and how he loved it so much and was going to come back.
This guy is solid!
Elder
Wallace and I were strolling down the street on the way from the church to our
pad. There was a man walking the same direction to our right. As we began to
pass him he turned over to us and out of the bleu cheese he asked us what our
beliefs were. His name is Highness.... Yeah you read that right. He said that
he lives across the street from our church and always sees missionaries coming
and going, but he has never talked to them. We ended up having a lengthy
conversation with him. We told him about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon.
It was a weird conversation because there was moments were it seemed like he
wanted to bash with us, and then there was other moments where I wish we could
have stayed and talked to him all day. I attribute that to his strong faith he
has already built in Jesus Christ from his interpretations of the bible.
At the
end of the conversation when we had to get going he said,"I have a
question. Every time I walk by you missionaries I feel the Holy Spirit. For
whatever reason I have never had the courage to talk to you. I can tell God
really wants me to talk to you. I just want to know, if the spirit has been
urging me to talk to you so many times, if it's that important, why has no
missionary ever felt that same urge and stopped me?"
His
question changed the way I view missionary work. It made me wonder how many
times missionaries have walked past him and the Spirit has been prompting both
the missionaries and Highness to talk to each other, but for whatever reason it
never happened. How many times do you think that happens in our lives? Probably
a lot. If you ever get a prompting from the Spirit don't delay it because you
think it might be weird because the other person could very well be feeling the
same thing. Don't be afraid, take courage.
Love you!
Elder
Tyler Johanson
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