First off, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA (thats an evil laugh by the way) WE BEAT BLUE RIDGE TAKE THAT!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D Ok i had to get that out of my system. :) But it sounds like a totally awesome week as always! Elder Hollan and I for most of the sessions watched conference in the church by ourselves but we had A LOT of pringles and ginger ale (to combat the pringles) so we were set and happy. :) I think probably one of my absolute favorite talks was the one by Lynn G. Robbins cuz he went hard in the paint!! But this week was AWESOME!
Monday we had dinner and a lesson with Wilma at the Durbin's house. We started talking about faith but halfway through, Wilma like started clutching her arm and was like "ugh this darned thing hurts so bad." She allowed us to give her a priesthood blessing and after it she was like "i don't know what i just felt but it was definitely something." YYYYYYYEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! IT WAS SO AWESOME!! Tuesday we went on exchanges with the zone leaders and i went with elder Bellistion who is a total boss! We knocked a lot of doors and not much was happening but we were finally able to get into contact with Abebe (this AWESOME ethiopian guy we tracted into like 5 weeks ago) and we were able to clear up a lot of things (hahahaha he has been thinking that we were Jehovah's Witnesses so he never wanted to answer the door because he doesn't like them). So yea that was good to clear that up, and we gave him the Book of Mormon after talking about what it was and he was super pumped to read it! Elder Hollan and elder Parry taught Kevin and it was AWESOME! So on monday he just slipped up suuuuper bad and drank like 3 pints of vodka and chewed A LOT of tobacco but it was good too cuz it FINALLY got his wife paula involved. Before, every time we came over to Kevin's house, she would just disappear into the bedroom and listen to devil music! But now she wants to help Kevin so she is interested!! MIRACLE FO REAL!!!
Wednesday, we went and gave service at NorthStar again and it was super fun as always. :) Hahaha when we were walking back, this random truck went by with a GIGANTIC fake bear in the back of it and it just made me bust up! Hahaha only in Iowa i swear! We talked to a guy named Scott Swehla (who has bats in his attic literally and figuratively-he has a bat infestation in the 2nd floor of his house and he is CRAZY) so that was......interesting. Then we were able to go and help the branch out with their Combined activity and it was like a murder mystery thing and that was a blast! Hahaha i played an irritated colonel who yelled a lot it was hilarious! We went and knocked some doors and NOTHING was happening so we said a prayer and then we were led to this boss Lutheran guy named Jim! The Lord truly answers prayers! Thursday we got to go to Iowa City and watch "Meet The Mormons" (a movie coming out that was produced by the Church and its super awesome) cuz President Jensen got it from the 1st Presidency so that was way cool! We then had dinner with the Berding family (she is an inactice member and her husband is a nonmember) and as we started to share a spiritual thought they just hustled us out the door (but it was in a nice way i guess). Idk it was a weird situation.
Friday we went to Wilma's with brother Larson and we had like a Book of Mormon study thing it was sweet! We just all read through 3 Nephi 27 taking turns and we all jotted down thoughts as they came to us and then we told what we had written down and why. It was really good because it was REALLY simple and thats just what Wilma needs right now. We then and met a potential named Brian who just sat there with a Book of Mormon and a sheet of anti junk in the other hand and he just tried to bash with us but we wouldn't bash back and he eventually ended up accepting the invitation to baptism! Who knows it could happen! :D Saturday we watched the 1st session of conference and it was awesome and then the 2nd session we watched with Wilma at her house and she really liked it! CHURCH IS TRUE! Then we hit Janesville and were able to talk with Henry and Susan Heine, we talked with them last week-they are a really old couple who is REALLY Lutheran. He had gone to his pastor and asked him about Mormons and his pastor gave him LOADS of anti-mormon papers. So Henry tried to bash with us as well but we found out that he hadn't read the Book of Mormon at all so we invited him to read it and pray to know if it was true. We told them that was the only way to know if it was true.
Sunday we watched conference and it was super legit again! Our appointment with Paris and Bria (potentials) cuz they told us-and this is an exact quote, "you can't come over for this week because one of our dogs-they have three-is in heat and the other two are going crazy!" Hahahahahaha we just started laughing our heads off i was like "What?! Thats the most random excuse/reason i've ever heard!" But we were able to finally meet with brother Matthews (he is inactive) and his wife Kathy (she is a nonmember) and we had a really good talk with them and encouraged them to look up the conference talks-especially the one by m. Russell Ballard about "staying in the boat." Then we talked to Dave (history buff guy in the trailer park) and had a recap of the restoration with him (we haven't been able to meet with him for like 6 weeks!) and it was super awesome and he said he'd read the Book of Mormon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Elder Logan Flake
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