May 26, 2014
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| Elder Snow with Elder Gray at last transfer meeting |
hello hello! Another
great week in the life of elder snow! Man, Elder Vega and I have been working
hard this week, and because of that we've been able to see a lot of miracles! It's
really been great.
So, to start things
off, let me just reiterate how tired I am all the time haha. I wake up about
5:40 to work out with Mr. bodybuilder Elder Vega EVERY morning. Then, we bike all day. One day, we had to
bike out to the farthest part in our area..TWICE. We actually did that twice
this week, but anyway… As we were riding home the second time, about to
approach this huge hill, I just thought to myself "there’s no way. there’s
no way I can do this right now, I am SO exhausted. If I try to ride up this hill right now I'm
just gonna die." And, literally as soon as that thought registered, a guy
in a truck next to me yells out "hey, do y'all need a ride?" And I,
without even knowing this guy or thinking about it was just like "yep,
absolutely, we'll take a ride!" And, so he pulled over. Elder Vega catches
up to me and is like "what's going on" and I was like "some guy asked
us if we needed a ride. I don't know who he is, but I said “yes" and he
was just like, uhh okay. So we ride up to the guy and he was like "oh man,
its brother Ellis!" We tossed our bikes in the truck, and he gave us a
ride and broke open a big bag of sour patch and we pigged out on sour patch on
the way back haha. Oh man, it was so great. Miracles for working hard, tender
mercies every day, it's great!
So, two people we're
teaching right now - the “M” family, a family of 7 (5 of baptismal age), and “J.”
We had two lessons with each of them this week, and they were FANTASTIC.
They're all so golden! We just found “J” last week, and as we met with him this
week we committed him to be baptized on the 14th of june. It's fantastic.
We taught him the
word of wisdom and law of chastity, and the plan of salvation, and he has NO
problems with the word of wisdom. He's 25! We were like whaaaat? And, he loved
the plan of salvation. He said it made so much sense. it was fantastic. The law
of chastity he committed to live, he was even the one who asked us to teach him
about it so he could know what he was/wasn't doing right. He's so insanely
golden, it's so awesome. I love that guy so much. I'm so excited to see him get
baptized!
Next is the “M”
family. I can't even tell you how solid they are. They have us over twice a
week, and they've come to church EVERY WEEK FOR TWO MONTHS. They haven't missed
once, and they stay for ALL of church! It's so crazy. They love it. We taught
them some commandments, and sister “M” and all her kids are all ready to be
baptized...brother “M” isn't quite ready yet, but he's super close. They’re all
so close to be baptized, it's crazy. Sister mcnary straight up told us she
wants to be baptized...she reads like 5 chapters of the book of mormon every
day, it's insane. she's already in Alma! Man, they're so awesome. We had dinner
with them this week, too, and it was delicious. Afterwards, brother “M” had
some questions for us and we helped resolve some concerns; we just had a great
lesson. i'm so stoked to be working with these people!
So elder Vega and I have
been working super hard this week, and it definitely paid off. We pulled off
the highest numbers in the zone for the week! We even topped the zone leaders!
We were super super excited. The zone set a goal for 80 percent of our lessons
to be member presents, and the zone wasn't even close, EXCEPT for our area. We got
80 percent the first week! Oh man it's so great. We're working so hard and
being blessed for it, and it's just such a great feeling to be an instrument in
the Lords hands.
That's about it for
me this week! It's been a great week. I’m having an awesome time, working hard,
and getting into better shape! Hope you guys are having as good of a time as I
am! Have a great week!
Love you!
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