22 October 2018

This week we had a couple of good lessons, and one really cool experience alluded to in the title. One of our people, Jay, is still doing great. We taught him the Word of Wisdom and he accepted it with no problem. He didn't have a problem with doing any of the things in it except for a little bit of tea, and that is a miracle in of itself down here in the South. The problem is he can't drive himself, so we have to find a ride for church and things. All of this service keeps everyone tied up all day, though, and so no one can really give him one right now. We're trying to get it all figured out, and we'll see how it goes. He has a baptismal date for Saturday, and we might have to push it back by a week or two until things calm down enough. We also have started teaching another member's friend, and he is doing great. He has a ton of questions all the time, and he definitely felt the Spirit in the last lesson. We're going to teach him again this week, and he'll go out and serve with us this weekend again. We also got him to go to a devotional that President Oaks did for the Wilmington Stake on Saturday. That was really good. He talked a lot about the importance of keeping the Sabbath day holy and taking the sacrament. What I wasn't expecting was how funny it would be! It was a riot for half of it. His wife made fun of him for still getting up and cleaning out the gutters by himself and getting married so young. He poked right back, and he just kept it funny and spiritual the whole way through. But the coolest part of that day for me happened earlier that morning, where our tiny branch got a special visit from President Oaks! I got to talk to him personally, explain a little about what we did, and shake his hand! He's so humble and excited about everything. It was awesome being able to hear from him.

That about wraps up the week, I'm still uploading more pictures into that Google Drive folder I shared a few weeks back. Only one for the email today. Bye!

 

Yeah! I got to talk with President Oaks face to face and he asked me about myself and that sort of thing. It was way cool! He visited the little town of Wallace (pop. 4,000) because our tiny branch building (we don't even have a chapel, just a multipurpose room) and our 35ish active members are recognized as one of the most efficient in moving teams in and out and just general organization. We got about 400 people in and out in an hour, something that even the stake center EOC's struggle with. And they have 10 times the manpower, easily! Our members are just super good at getting everything organized and keeping things flowing smoothly.