Hello dearest family and
friends!
Spiritual Moment: Nate would be interested to hear that his
mission president, President and Sister Gay, came to visit our mission. They
spoke to us for the majority of the day on Friday it was great. I asked
them if they knew an Elder Wright....and Sister Gay was like "OH
Nate!!" and I said yeah. I vaguely remember meeting the Gays once when we
were at a volleyball game or something, and she remembered too! IT was pretty
cool.
They spoke a lot about
getting to know our investigators well. He did a role play demonstrating that
we need to be focusing on their deep concerns. Every person has their personal
'question of the soul'.
I thought a lot about
Rose and what her 'question' is. (Background on Rose- not sure if I have
already told you this, she has been investigating the church for 7-ish years.
At the beginning of this transfer she lost her baby, and she almost died
because of internal bleeding. She was taken to the emergency room by some of
our members who also gave her a priesthood blessing. It was an amazing miracle
where they said things that the doctor didn't even know yet. She slowly got
better, but they still weren’t able to save the baby. Going into that
experience we thought for sure she would agree to be baptized, and so
consequently that is all we really talked about along with the Holy Ghost and
recognizing our answers. As I was thinking about her deep questions I realized
that we had neglected this poor woman's feelings about her child. Did that
child ever get baptized? NO! By Rose's belief, her baby wasn't baptized and she
won't ever see it again.
It was such a touching
moment as we read Moroni 8 with her, I told her that her baby was waiting in
heaven for her, and that one day she could have an eternal family. She started
to cry. It was one of the most special moments on my mission. I had one of
those moments where I really understood how important it is to listen to the
Holy Ghost. Heavenly Father knows everyone so personally, and we can only know
how to help when we listen to him. She said that she would really like to come
to a baptism to see what it’s like. Perfect...because there is one on
Saturday!!!!!
Pure Awesomeness
Moment: We went to Thousand
Palms to walk and contact referrals and former investigators this past week. We
had seen some of them before, but we didn’t remember which ones until we would
get to their houses. We got to this one house and realized that we had been there
before, but the man had been sleeping. So we knocked and his son went and got
him from outside. He sat down with us outside and basically said, why are you
here. And then he went on to say that he had just been thinking about how he
needed Jesus in his life. He said things were kind of rough in his life and he didn’t
really know how to fix it. He called us angels and felt like it was a miracle
that we had come. It was pretty cool!!!
That’s it for this
week folks! I have some good pictures of our trio-ness and our District, who is
sadly parting ways. Oh well! We finally accomplished the summer in the
desert!!!!!!!! Woohoo! That doesn't meant that it is any cooler
though.....hopefully the temperature will start dropping a little.
| Our District |
Love you all!!!!!!!!
Have a great Week!!!!!!!
H Wright
| Desert Sunset |
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