Heyyoooo!!! You mentioned Mom that it's a national holiday
today... is it terrible that I have no idea what holiday it is today?? haha oh well, I've gotten use to being out of
the loop! It was great to hear from
everyone! Thanks for the advice Austin,
it has a lot of real life application here in the mission, and out of the
mission as well. I had a good chuckle at
the motion pictures you sent along with the email. I'm not even sure if that's what they're
called but they were pictures and they were moving so that's what I'm calling
them! Mom that's some great missionary
work you have going on! Even though Sheri wasn't as open and receptive as we
hoped she would've been, I'll bet my bottom dollar she'll still remember the
experience of going to the temple. There's no other place like it on earth.
Sorry for no pictures today, I'll be sending home a small package with my
memory card in it, along with a few CD's. One has x-rays on it, the other some
awesome videos, and the other some talks. It's called Take Control, by Douglas
Callister. His wife speaks first and then he speaks. Its AWESOME. Annnnnd if it's not in there there you'll have
to let me know, I'll send it to you…
Anyways,
we've had a busy busy week! Oh real
quick funny story, then on to the good stuff. Have I told you that Elder Vance is a healthy
guy? Well he is. So it's sweet because he's doesn't have any
issues when we try to eat healthy! A
member family in our ward is super healthy minded too, and they had us try some
kale chips, which when they made it was super good. Well we had the bright idea to try to make
some on our own.... haha let me tell you what, kale is disgusting!! Ladies and
gentlemen, leave it up to the professionals! Ok, back to business.
So quick
story to highlight how God works. He does work by small and simple means. In turn great things come to pass. The other
elders in our ward were out walking around and talked to some people who were
putting things in a U-Haul. They asked
if they could help. The couple gladly accepted the help, and as they talked the
couple mentioned how not 10 minutes earlier they had said a prayer that they
would get some help. (Background info: The husband's grandpa died 2 months ago,
his dad died 2 weeks ago. 4 days ago,
when they get back from the funeral which was out of town, their utilities are
shut off and they have a notice that their home is being sold in a week and
have that much time to move.) We pick
the other elders up for dinner, and tell them we'll come back to help
afterwards. We come back and meet
Jessica and Josh. They're moving to a
small town outside of Tulsa.
These two
are incredibly friendly, very open people. They were asking a lot of questions
about us, and why we were all dressed up. That opened the door for us to begin
to talk about what we do and then we began to talk about families. We talked for the next 20 minutes with Jessica
about her relationship with God and she mentioned how she's felt like for the
longest time she's been able to get close to God, but lately she hasn't, and
there's something missing in her life, something she needs to do to get closer
to Him. Josh then pokes his head in and
mentions how he had been praying these last few weeks to be lead and guided to
the church God wants him to be at, where his family can be blessed the most. Haha I'm telling you what Elder Vance and I
looked at each other and were like "is this really happening?" We
testified of the simple points of the Plan of Salvation, left them with a Book
of Mormon, and committed them to have the missionaries over when they move
outside of Tulsa . It's not in our mission but that's ok, we're all on the same
team! Anyways, at the end Elder Vance
said "We know that if you do what the missionaries in Tulsa invite you to
do, you'll have that relationship with Christ that you're seeking." They
then said "Thank you so much, we know that you've been an answer to all of
our prayers."
I'll
probably never see them again, but that's ok. What I'll keep from that night is the
knowledge that God knows us individually, and he will work in the very details
of our lives. Very seldom will angels
come down and interject. Rather he'll allow our brothers and sisters the
opportunities to serve and love one another into the gospel. Thank you for
serving and loving me, I have been blessed greatly by it. I love you!!!
Elder
Traasdahl
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