Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Mother’s Day,
to all of the Ladies out there who have been a mom to me at some
point in my life thank you so much and Yesterday was totally your day!
That being said I gave my talk in church and I have never
seen more middle-aged women cry in my entire life haha…in a good way. It was
really fun to speak on mothers on Mother’s Day and what they truly do and how
important it truly is. And only few people came to the study class and the
movie, but I know so much more are going to come next week! This is going to
work. Never give up never surrender!
This week I don't have much time so I have a quick story. As a
missionary I see so so so many miracles all day that I feel like I have begun
to start taking them for granted. And I really don't like that. So the other
day we drove out to Buffalo Gap to do a service project with the youth in the
ward and when we got there they were all walking away and we were late and
didn't know where we were going, so we were trying to be super quick so pulled
in super fast and tried to get out, but the keys wouldn't come out of the
ignition. So we started freaking out and screaming… then I was like... “wait.....Lets pray” and it was kinda a joke, but serious because there is so
many more things that are way more important than that that I could be praying
about, but as I said it, the three other missionaries in the car bowed their
heads and I prayed. Immediately when I said amen, I moved the shift just a
little bit to the right and the keys came right out. And it is funny, so much
of the time for me I think I need these huge things to happen to strengthen my
faith in God and I have to see people rising from the dead or something. But
that act of seeing the keys come out of the ignition strengthened my testimony
more than anything else. It showed to me that God cares about the little things
in our life and that He is always always there to listen to your prayer… even
if you are in a car in the middle of a po-dunk town of 400 people on a ranch.
He still cares. So look for God in the little things and I know you will feel
Him a lot more. Small and simple truly is the way to go.
I love you guys and if you need any extra lovin send a letter my
way and I promise I will send one back!
be safe
love
elder c
More
info from the Mother's Day phone/Skype call:
1) He said he spoke of
Mother Mary (Christ's mother), Lucy Mack Smith (Joseph Smith's mother), his own
mom's conversion story and Peggy (his surrogate mom or our neighbor when he was
a little boy).
2) He sang part of
Amazing Grace to the tune of The Scientist for us and it was actually really
good. He is creative.
3) He said they have
been doing more hours of service (mission went from 3 hours to 10 hours a week)
including trimming huge trees and a company that does it for a living stopped and told them
each tree they trimmed was worth like $1200 to do professionally.
4) He has been getting
up and working out at 5:45 every morning and he said that helps him have more
energy during the day.
5) Missionaries have
been arrested there that have tried to proselyte after 7:00 PM.
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