URGENT! I know how to MAKE THAT NOW! I CANT EVEN SPELL IT BUT IM SO DANG CLASSY I CANT STAND IT!! The member we live with is a CHEF! So she taught us how to make Quiche this week, can't even describe the incredible-ness. YOU'LL ALL DIE. Christmas Day breakfast 2014.
Enough.
OK exchanges in Augusta this week, DYING, becuase this is now the THRID time I've been there. As we were praying the night before where we should go we do "what are you thinking 1-2-3-........."Bel Aire" (unison) #DANGIT. haha so re-pray.....#Augusta3x its this tiny little ho-dunk town outside of Wichita.
BUT miracle- last time I was there on Exchanges, walking to an appointment, felt like we should knock this RANDOM door, the lady just seemed dazed and confused but let us set a return appointment, as were walking away I told S. Hartung who was still in training, "So ya, you can count that as a new investigator!.....i guess......even though she was a little confused......?"
GOT BAPTIZED! Got to be at the lesson on THIS exchange where we had the Baptismal Interview with her, WHAT THE. Like could.not.believe.it. #miracles
Ok ok, but they have this CLASSIC investigator named Brad. Think of you typical like Mid-Western "Mericuh!!!" stereo-type and he is every.single.one.
ULTI-MAN.
He has a confederate flag OVER the American flag.
Not only does he wear a pistol like halter belt vest thing? (im so white)but also HE WORKS AT GUN SHOWS?? Boot dagger strapped to his leg, knife in his belt......huge beard, ANOTHER gun on his hip....Hates anything "girly" drives a giant truck......little bit of an accent...loves hunting...wears camo....need I say more??
BRAD.
So Brad is investigating the Church becuase he re-connected with his 14-year-old girlfriend (they are both divorced) and now they are dating/getting MARRIED but she converted like 5 years ago and is solid making him investigate.
Brad's ex-wife lives next door.
They live in a duplex.
Share a driveway.
AWK-CITY.
So ex wife= crazy. on drugs ALWAYS, left Brad for a 30-yr-old crack job.
So her paranoid boyfriend has no job, no life, but makes youtube videos about how the government is out to get him, and "anyone wearing red" are spies.
So Brad of course as SEEN all of these..........*cue screwing in red porch light...red Caridnals jersey hanging in the screen door, BOUGHT A RED JEEP, red curtains, his daughter him and all his friends walked around the driveway pacing up and down in red shirts, changed his Internet router name to "FBIfan943"......
Basically Al Nash in like.......23 years.
HILAR.
After his 20 minute story about how he almost SHOT his ex-wife on Christmas Day becuase she stepped inside his door, we actually had a great message, and I'm SO proud of him becuase he has come SO far (first exchange in Augusta they had just started teaching him, Lesson 1)
SO cool to be able to see PROGRESS with investigators I've met in da zone.
CHRISTMAS MIRACLE: Judy got a new oven (insisted that her foul banana bread was beacuse of her oven, we're like ya ya you are crazy. no.)
NO.
That was real.
AND NOW IT IS LIKE NECTOR OF THE GODS DELICIOUS!?!?!?!?!??! S. Beuchert literally almost started crying tears of joy. SUCH A BLESSING. (she feeds it to us EVERY time we go over. every.time.)
LAST BUT NOT LEAST:
Top 10 of my mish.
Went to visit "unkown LA" named Brand Mokuau.
Rest home on lock down.
After we like key-code us in, find her room, start talking.....not SUPER responsive, little bit dim sunken eyes, looking down... so we're like huhhh.......well Brenda can we read the scriptures with you?
I could tell her memory was not all there so Spirit hit me with most MEMORABLE chapter in the BOM........1Nephi1:1 NO ONE in the church who hasnt read that like 40 times. at least.
So we start there and her eyes just like light up. So i'm just like SCRIPTURE MASTERY S. BEUCHERT! ..............cue awkward fail of neither of us even knowing those..................ok so famous quotes scriptures instead go:
ALL of the go-tos..... Alma 7:11 EYES PERK UP.......1 Nephi 3:7 STARTS QUOTING it.........Ether 12:27 starts like scribbling out the words in the air with her hand........
FINALLY realized we introduced ourselves as missionaries from the church......
"Brenda....do you belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints??"
*eye contact*
"YES! yes I do! TRUTH. So true....."
SPIRIT JUST FLOODS the room. So remember from my internship in high school on the rehab floor at the hospital old woman who had a stroke couldnt even speak, family visits for her birthday and they randomly started singing primary songs and she SANG which was a miracle because she couldnt talk, all of us crying, so powerful, FLOODS BACK TO ME.
SO we sing I am a Child of God and she TOTALLY joins in and knows EVERY word and its AMAZING and greatest spirit EVER and i could just IMAGINE all of the countless years of service she had given and here she is totally forgotten in this rest home BROKE MY HEART but the LORD knew where she was, the LORD knew her heart, and so he sent us and it was the GREATEST!!!
.....end with showing her the pictures in the front of the BOM.....
"Oh yes!! THat is Joseph.....Joseph Mokuaua..................................."
yes...almost......
LOVE YOU ALLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
love,
Sister Murray
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