Man sounds like everyone is going to be super busy all the time! The week was great! Hard, but super awesome at the same time! Its been like 75-90 for the entire week with random rainshowers! That's just the good ole' bipolar Iowa weather though. :) Hearing about the whole gay marriage thing was just crazy. Ugh. We get one hour of LDS.org time a week and when I saw that I was like, "Wait what?!" The Lord still guides His church though I know that to be true! We'll just have to "hold to the rod" and endure it well and then we will be blessed. I'm doing a lot better and starting to be more positive again finally! :D Things are looking up! Oh and we get transfer calls today too, I have NO IDEA whats going to happen!!
Well, this week was definitely a hard one but its amazing to see how much the Lord can bless us if we endure. On Monday, we had dinner with the Bodines (they are just here for a little while because Sister Bodine is singing with the Des Moines Opera and they're here in town for a bit) and it was great! They are an awesome family and super pumped for missionary work! After them, we were able to briefly stop by James again and see how he was doing. :) Monday was a little slow but it happens sometimes. :) TUESDAY WAS AWESOME! We went knocking and met this awesome lady named Kathleen! She is a married lady in her mid-20s with four kids and is super prepared! We taught her the Restoration and while it wasn't the greatest lesson ever the Spirit was strong and we were all able to feel it which was sweet! She even said, "I always hear about people getting knocks on their doors and talking to missionaries about Jesus. I was just wondering if I ever would." She wants to raise her kids right and feels that the Church is the way to go! :D It had kind of a sad afternoon because we went to an appointment we had with Bob and he decided he was done meeting with us. Then right after Bob we went to our appointment with Dakota and Natasha and.....they dropped us as well. So the Lord totally blessed us and it was awesome because we found Kathleen right after they dropped us! We also were dropped by Adam as well.
On Wednesday we went and gave service at Goodwill again sorting all the donations. Man people still donate the weirdest things sometimes! We were able to go and see Nancy Smith again and try to help cheer her up because she was super depressed. Thank heavens the gospel is such a joyful message! The Spirit was strong and we all felt great as we read out of the Book of Mormon with her. :) That night it was raining ridiculously hard and the lightning kept me up half the night! In the morning we found about half and inch of water on our bathroom floor and in the laundry room! Thank goodness we happened to have a mop and a ShopVac with us! On Thursday, after we were finally done cleaning up the wwater that morning, everybody (us included) was late to district meeting because a lot of the main roads were closed with water coming over them so we had to take the random country roads to get to Knoxville! We had a great training on our purpose as missionaries and we had an awesome testimony meeting with it as well. The Spirit was really strong and it was just great. :) We went to go see the Corbetts that evening and it was insane! Their little boy Joe was going CRAZY!!!!! It was just an interesting experience that's for sure. On Friday Sister Strain was able to come with us to teach Kathleen about the Book of Mormon and it was great! They both just clicked and the lesson was awesome! Members are so awesome because they are great fellowshippers and their testimonies are just solid!
We were able to teach Gerry, an older Methodist lady, the Restoration that evening and she enjoyed it and thought it was interesting! She might have a problem with learning more but we'll be working on that as we go. :) Saturday we did a bunch of finding and we were able to go and visit Sister King in Martensdale as well. She is probably one of the nicest older ladies I have ever met in my life! We were also able to FINALLY get in contact with Sheldon Midas, a less-active member, and we arranged for him to come to church tomorrow with Brother Strain! On Sunday, Sheldon bailed on church but that's ok we'll work on it with him. :) Kathleen was going to come but her father is pretty much on his deathbed all of a sudden so she understandably couldn't make it. In Sunday School we had an awesome discussion about the importance of developing our talents and sharing them with others. It kinda made me realize I need to work on that more and not just "bury" mine. :) We were able to help teach the Primary about the Holy Ghost and that's always a good time! Later as we were walking, this guy who we'd given a card to earlier in the week drives up to us and says, "Hey can I meet with you guys this evening? I'm going through a rough time right now man." We were both like, "Sure!" and set up a time for that evening. After a great dinner and lesson with the Kentners, we hustled on over to our appointment with the guy. His name is Tiberius and like all of his family and friends have just left him for some reason or another. He said he has tried a bunch of different religions but none seem to be working out for him. He had a bunch of questions that were all able to be answered by the doctrines in the Plan of Salvation! He was just like, "Man this is awesome! It makes so much sense!" Yeah it does because its true! It was just awesome. So we lost four investigators and the Lord blessed us with three new awesome people to teach! A mission is the best thing ever! :)
Love,
Elder Logan Flake
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