Feeling His Love Daily

Dear Family & Friends:

Here are my journal entries for the week.  

8/29 Monday 

Today was a pretty boring day. We studied and shopped and cleaned the car then played basketball for a little while. We had dinner again with the McKnights and John and then DLC and that is it.

 

8/30 Tuesday 

Today we had district meeting and the topic was teaching/ feeling the spirit. Elder Renel did a wonderful job in the training. After that, we went tracting in a sketchy part of town. Not two minutes out of the car, a drunk lady called us over and talked our ear off about everything under the Las Vegas sun. She tried to give us hugs and told us about when she stole stuff from people and her drug life. She told us not to talk to anyone in the area because we couldn’t trust anyone but her. Anyway, she was a little on the wasted side, but it kept the day interesting. We contacted a referral that a lot of the members in the ward told us about. The man and his wife have three kids who live in the same neighborhood and have families of their own. They are devout Catholics, but very nice. We asked him straight up if he would like to hear about the restoration. We taught him and it went really well, so hopefully he will read and pray like he said he would! 

 

8/31 Wednesday 

Today was great! We had lots of success today! We talked with one of our potentials today, Jerry that we met before. He completely changed his attitude towards us! He did not read any of the stuff we asked him to because he had a crazy few days. There are lots of homes that are split for people to rent. Some members in a different ward referred one of the people that lived in the basement of Jerry’s house to us, but she had a heart attack on Saturday and passed away before we could go meet with her. Jerry, our investigator, was having a crazy few days, but he said that he was going to read this week. We asked him to hand a plan of salvation pamphlet to the husband of the lady that died. He said he would, but he wanted to read it himself. We told him we could give him another one. Haha. We went on splits this evening and taught a lot of lessons. I had a girl, Miley, tell me she wanted to get baptized, and asked me what she needs to do to get baptized. That was super exciting. Lilly, the 85-year-old lady that we are teaching, said she would like to get baptized. She said that she wasn't sure when she would be ready, that it might be tomorrow, next week, or in a few months. Prayers in her behalf have been answered because she could not remember anything we would teach, so we have prayed for her remembrance of what we teach. Our prayers have been answered!! 

 

9/1 Thursday 

Today was my first zone conference. There were many inspired words of council. We were told to not use the cars as much, which will make ourselves more visible, and to make our prayers more meaningful. We put it to practice tonight and we met a lot of new people and were very blessed! We met a very old man who had throat cancer. He had a hole in his throat, so it was very hard for him to talk. He didn't like Mormons, told us we were in a cult, that we needed to worship Jesus Christ and to stop having lots of wives.... Haha. I love people that believe they know everything about the Mormon Church! He would not let us talk, so we had to just share a scripture, testify of Christ, and leave. I won't lie, it made me a little mad when he was just going off on us about being brainwashed... I still have work to do on being more Christlike. We can see the blessings that come by following President Walker's council already. 

 

9/2 Friday 

Today we went all day on bikes. I really like biking because it makes the day a lot more fun. Tonight, as we were locking up our bikes so we could go tracting, John, the man that was baptized two weeks ago, saw us, and we were able to say hi. He was so excited to see us. He told us that he has to leave the United States in two weeks because he is not a citizen. We hadn't seen him since his baptism, so it was a blessing. After dinner, we had the opportunity to meet a guy in his twenties who is autistic. He told us about how he has done some things in his life that have made him feel really guilty, and he felt that God was mad at him. It was very helpful to know how to help him, thanks to Special Olympics! Elder Renel had no idea what to do! In the end, we gave him some hope and made him feel way better. It was a great experience. We started exchanges tonight, and I am with Elder Kauer for a day. 

 

9/3 Saturday

I knocked a lot of doors today with Elder Kauer on the letter streets of Vegas... Haha. It was a lot fun, but a little sketchy! We had one lesson with one of their referrals, which went really well. They don't have many investigators, so we did a lot of contacting. Other than that, it wasn't a very exciting day. I scared Elder Kauer when I saw a cat in the dark. I was like, "Oh there is a mountain lion,” and then I made a noise, and it made him jump haha....

 

9/4 Sunday 

We had three member attend church today, which was great. Lilly was not able to come to church because she got shingles, so we went and gave her a blessing. Hopefully, she will heal quickly. We have a lot of investigators, but several of them have been going to church for years and just won't get baptized. I have no idea what to do to help them. We taught, and had a lesson today with Brian and challenged him to text a question or scripture a day to get him studying the scriptures more deeply. He has been investigating for 4 years. He said he would do that, so hopefully it helps. We had a lesson with a man who is married to a member and has been going to church for an extremely long time. He considers himself a member but doesn't want to get baptized. His wife goes to the temple every week! We did have a way good lesson with him though, and then they tried giving us all the food in their house! I love the members in Vegas! 

 

9/5 Monday

Today we went shopping at BCF. This man stopped us to bible bash, and then told us he was one of the hunters that is stated in Romans, and his job was to hunt and kill people spiritually if they were wrong in belief. Elder Renel talked to him for a while, but it wasn't worth it, so he ended the conversation. The wife filmed it all, so if we go viral, I may be famous. Hopefully, I will be a YouTube legend. Haha. He was a jerk to everyone he came in contact with. In the checkout, he was one of the rudest people I have ever met. I don't care what religion you are, if you are building people up, you are a good person. If you tear people down then....

 

I got Aunt Maria and Uncle Daryll's address, but I need their email so I can thank them for all the stuff they gave me! I still need Rudy’s.  I get served such a variety of food here it is insane. Island food, Korean, Peruvian.... The list goes on and on.  My favorite was probably the Korean food! 

I see miracles every day and feel His love every day. It makes me so mad when people tell me how wrong our religion is because they have never felt the things I have felt, and they don't see the miracles that I see. 

 

Love you lots!

Elder Call