We had both district and zone meetings this week and they
were both at the stake center (sigh). I got an interview with President
Winder and that was pretty cool, he is truly called of God. Zone
meeting was mainly about working with the members, and we've been
talking about that a lot lately. We try to get the members more involved
with missionary work and we are beginning to see some of the work and
counsel pay off. We are getting more and more referrals to go and talk
to people. It keeps us busy all the time. So cool story time. After the
zone meeting we went to lunch at Costa Vida and had huge sweet pork
burritos which were awesome. As we were pedaling home, a woman flagged
us down so we pulled over to her. As we started to talk to her, she
completely broke down and told us that her daughter was in the hospital
and that her son in law whom she was staying with assaulted here. She
openly admitted that she was a less active. She said she couldn't feel
the spirit anymore and she just wanted to pray with somebody. We stood
there and said a prayer and she left that parking lot with a smile on
her face. The blessings of talking to the missionaries.
This week started suit coat season for our mission
meaning, we can only wear suit jackets and/or sweaters. I've got two
sweaters and two suits so I think I'll be good until it really gets
cold. Hopefully I'll get my visa by then. We were talking to one of our
ward mission leaders ,Brother Berg (hes really chill and cool) and he
said that I might not get it for awhile because apparently the US
government was shut down b/c Congress couldn't pass a budget so I don't
know if the State Department is working on visas. Well, hopefully it all
gets resolved soon and I will be off to Brasil. Boise is awesome, but I
can't wait to get to Manaus.
This next part may not be a good thing to read
out loud at dinner so just giving a heads up. So as were pulling up to
the Stake Center where we email we see this funeral processional
leaving the chapel and so we go around the other side of the building
to get to family history center where we email from. It wasn't open so
we were standing around talking to some members when one of them mention
that apparently there was an accident on the other side of the building
so we start heading around to see what had happened. We get there and
there are 6-7 people lying on the grass with people huddling around them
and a car parked on the grass as well. Apparently an older man had
gotten into the car and gunned it, lost control and went up onto the
grass hit some people and managed to come to a stop. There were fire
trucks and ambulances all over the place with police officers coming up
as well. Some kids were crying so we talked to them and tried to
distract them from what was going on. After that we just went around to
people who looked like they needed a comforting word. It was quite sad
and it looked like everybody was going to live, and we had a prayer to
bless anybody who injured and then left to get out of the way of the
first responders. Hopefully everything will be all right.
How is marching band going? When is district and
regional competitions? I didn't know that there was a BOA thing up in
Muncie. Thats cool. We still do eat in members home every night. We
don't every cook for ourselves b/c the only meal we really make is
breakfast and thats cereal. Nothing major. We actually do have bunkbeds
in our room since there are three of us! I'm the only one who is not on
the bunk bed so its pretty great. I don't think I need anything right
now. If I need anything I'll let you know! Thanks so much! I miss you
all!
Love Ben/Elder Battraw
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