November 30, 2015
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Thanksgiving!
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Wait... a Miracle?
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District Meeting
So
Thanksgiving was awesome, for a few reasons. One of the main ones was that our
mission president allowed us to stay more then 1 hour for meals that day. We
had 2 Thanksgiving meals, one was at the Evans house and they had family come
from out of town (North Carolina, 3hrs away) and something I have noticed about
the southern part of Virginia (and probably in the south in general, not sure
yet...) No one moves too far away.... everyone is like within 4 hours from each
other... its really weird, I am unused to it greatly. But lunch at the Evans
was great because their 7 grandkids put on a play of the pilgrims and landing
in the North American Continent for religious freedom and other things of that
nature (and the grandkids were ages 2-9). From that lunch and a show we went to
the Mendez house and had another meal
and played games with them as their thanksgiving tradition.
The
Miracle that happened was when we fasted for an investigator to help with some
issues he had for being able to be baptized. We fasted for him and for 3 days
he kept postponing our visits for some reason or another and finally asked us
to come over after our thanksgiving dinner. We did and he was in the greatest
mood both of us have seen. The issues we fasted have become less of an issue
and he even asked for some help with cleaning (honestly a favorite thing I have
developed on the mission) and we are going to do a deep study of the Bible with
him for the continuing visits. It may not sound like great things but since he
has been taught for a year now... these are leaps and bounds in helping him
make covenants with his Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.
District
meeting was an interesting one due to the fact that it took us 2 hours to get
there... We have rotation of meeting houses so that the other missionaries
don't have to spend miles in their allotted for the month. We went to a place
called Wakefield. The district meeting was awesome and we discussed what we
were thankful for as a main topic. Also from the Wakefield Elders we learned of
a place called the Wye (pronounced Wire) which closed down many years ago. The
Wakefield Elders were invited to a Southern Baptist funeral and they said that
it was one of the most interesting funerals they had and probably will ever
attend. They Learned of the Wye at the funeral. The Wye was a place back in the
day where, according to the word on the street, was a place where if you
weren't allowed to have something and you wanted it, you went to the Wye to get
it. According to the missionaries, the Wye was what was talked about most at
this particular funeral and we found out that the lady lived in the Wye.
We had an investigator at church and
our week is still going very slow..... but there is one thing I thought was
amazing I read a few weeks ago that might be good to hear.
"Jesus says that I’m to Die for" so no matter
what, you are worth it. Keep having the Grace of Christ help Change to be more Christ
like.
Elder Day
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