I am preparing pictures to send, but I don't think that will
happen today.
This last week has been good. I want to describe something
very important "there is no such thing as an accident or
a coincident" God makes all those things happen. I find the more you
follow the Spirit, the more it will happen. It has been happening so much
lately. I cannot share every situation. This just helps me know that what I am
doing is what the Lord needs me to do.
We had to move. We moved in with other members this morning.
Last night I did not get to bed until 12:30. I was making district leader
phone calls until 11:05 pm and then I had to pack. I did not get to bed until 12:30 because I literally had no time
for 3 days to pack. I had tried but my district leader responsibilities got in
the way every single day leaving me no time to do things. In fact we still need
to go back and clean our living space of the members house that we were living
in because we did not have time to do that either.
Anyway I am doing very well. Because we had to move, I was
able to pack up my stuff to see how heavy it is. It looks like I am going to
need to send as many books as possible home the week before I leave because my
two bags weigh 50 lb each and my carry on weighs 50 lb as well, which is not
going to work. I am considering just leaving most of the white shirts I have,
except for a few nice ones.
I decided to share one of the stories that happened this
week, just because of how awesome but simple it was.
This was during the time where we were so flipping busy that
we did not even have time to plan what we wanted to do in the day (yes, we are
always supposed to plan but the Lord understands when we cannot). We were out
in this one area, we were contemplating going home 30 min early to clean and
pack. But we both decided that we still wanted to visit someone when we could
think of no one to visit. We were right next to the main road, which would be
the fastest route to get home. We were out and about and I could have easily
taken the shorter road home. But instead, I exercised self control to go an
extra mile, and an extra few minutes to go the longer way home. It just felt
right. I did not argue with the feeling. I just said, "lets go this way
home and maybe we will think of someone to visit" and my companion just
said "sounds good". So we went. We were approaching this one house of
a family who are active members and they have 2 kids that are 8 preparing to be
baptized. We had visited them before but we had finished the lessons with their
kids, we had no reason to pass by. (side note, the husband had had a divorce
and got remarried to this great person, this new couple is amazing, but the 2
kids are his kids. but every time they come from their birth mother they are
always attention hungry and behave horribly) As we passed the house both
Elder Tillotson and I said in our hearts and to each other, lets go see how the
Brimhall family is doing today. We had not seen them for about 3 weeks. We went
and knocked and newly married Sister Brimhall answered the door. No one else
was home. Sister Brimhall had served a mission. We told her that we were
passing by and that we just wanted to see how the family was doing. She gave us
sort of an odd look. She realized that we were sent to her door. She broke down
into tears for about two seconds because she knew that God had sent us to her
door but she quickly regained herself within 2 seconds (literally) and then she
said, "I need a blessing, Br. Brimhall is not here right now, I need to
prepare a talk that I have not even started yet (that was Saturday night) and
Br. Brimhalls ex-wife is giving us a really hard time and it is extremely hard
on me. We suggested that we go to the back porch to give her a blessing. My
companion gave the blessing. We attended her ward that next day and she gave a
good talk even though she was a little emotional.
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