THANKS FOR YOUR LOVE AND SUPPORT OF THE MISSIONARIES. Ethan still has the gut issues and goes back to the doctor this Thursday. His response to how is your energy? "%100"
Well we had transfers annnnd nothing is happening! I am staying in Purcell with Elder Meservy. It was kinda funny he really thought that he was going to leave this transfer and I will be honest I thought that he was leaving too but I guess President had different ideas! So this is going to be his 5th transfer in Purcell and my 3rd! I have predicted that I am either leaving here in July or in September haha. But most of our zone got switched up! So it is going to be an interesting transfer!!
So this week was ok! It started off good with some disc golf we had a ton of fun! of course we got our butts kicked by our investigator...BUT I was able to beat my companion so that is all that matters hahaha I was able to pull ahead with a birdie!! But I was surprised to see how much talent is involved with disc golf. I thought that is would be easy just to throw a piece of plastic... well it is, but throwing it accurately is a different story! I had to go hunt in the trees on almost every course!! But it was fun and would play it again! My final score was +36 and our investigators was -8 haha yeah we got smashed! But it is always good when you have the people that you are teaching teach you something! It helps them better understand your role in teaching them.
We had dinner with some other investigators this week and when we got there they were mad at each other (they are a couple their 20 s) but by the end of the night-or lesson, they were all happy and we had a good time. We were also able to set up some baptismal dates with them!
We had an interesting thing happen this week... well it really isn't that interesting because stuff like this happens all of the time for missionaries! All of our appointments fell through so what does that mean... TRACTING TIME!! yeah our favorite. So we go to the street that we planned to go to and get out of the car and there is a guy in a truck and we went and talked to him! Well it ended up that he needed a prayer. So we prayed with him and got his address. We asked if he needed help with anything and he said no. So we went on to the next house. Well after we were done visiting with them we see the guy in the truck waiting for us and he asked if we actually could help him tow a car to the dump. We said ok and followed him to his house.... and for some more background this guy is strait up REDNECK he was almost purpleneck he was so hick! But we got to his house and the car that we were going to tow........a mini van just like the one that we have!! so we drove the minivan behind him towing us!! WELL problems that we had were that he used a really small chain so during our journey the chain broke 5 times in the middle of the road and we had to retie it in the middle of the street! Well it was fun and it ended up being more fun than tracting so it all worked out! But after the man tried to pay us money and we said no, but told him he could go take it to our church on Sunday and donate it!! Well he didn't make it but we did give him a Book of Mormon so we are going to go and try to teach him the first lesson this week! He also told us that he was feeling really stressed and then we prayed with him... he kept on repeating that we helped him more then we knew!
So that was cool … tracting miracles!
So this week I was studying in doctrine and covenant and came across some cool stuff!
Section 103
12 For after amuch tribulation....cometh the blessing.
13 Behold, this is the blessing which I have promised after your tribulations, and the tribulations of your brethren—your redemption, and the redemption of your brethren.
Many times After we struggle then we are blessed. But how often do we realize this in the middle of our tribulation? Never haha so that is something that I am working on this week! Because truly all tribulation brings blessings even if it is something as small as a new knowledge--which really isn't that small. that is how loving our Heavenly Father is!
We had some crazy weather this week. I woke up in the middle of the night to getting rain ( we left our window open and the rain was coming down horizontally!!) and the lighting was pretty cool. WE had a bolt every 10 seconds!
Well that is about all that happened this week hope that you all have an awesome week! luv yalls
ELDER FINLINSON
Norman Zone
Gross….bugs
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