Week 75 Letter

Corona round 2 week 2

December 9, 2013

All:

This week has been pretty crazy. Since we were doubled into the area right before Zone Development Meeting (ZDM a meeting with the zone where we train on what we want everyone to focus on for this month, set goals etc.) we did a lot of administrative stuff; meetings, planning etc. Both for our own area and the zone. We certainly were tossed into an interesting situation as a zone. 

We didn't inherit any Investigators from the previous missionaries. So we've been biking around in the freezing cold visiting a bunch of people who have investigated the Church before, and part-member families. 

We did see some cool miracles though. One of which involved my companion's bike. 

Elder Wilkinson rides a Giant (fitting, I know) which has been wrecked pretty badly a few times (not all by him either). Anyway, so he's been riding around with the back break off because the axle was bent. Miraculously, I happened to have a spare axle. When I started my mission 17 months ago, my bike was missing it's front axle (I want to send a shout out to my grand-uncle Kim who gave me the bike: Thank you! I cannot tell you how awesome that bike has been all these months.) A little later, they sent both a front and a back axle. I only needed the front, but I decided to keep the rear one just in case. Everytime I have been transferred or even looked at it, the thought has run through my head: "I don't need that, I should toss it... Nah we'll hold onto it." Time and time again, almost every time I looked at the thing. This last week, I was able to fix my companion's bike. His rear axle was horribly bent, and I had a spare one which fits his bike. The bike still needs some repairs, but it's a lot better than it was. 

More than once this week, we have showed up to visit someone, knocked, discovered they weren't home, went back to our bikes, and then the person pulled up and we were able to talk to them/share a lesson.

I know that God is in the details of our lives. 

God is in the details of our lives.  

The ward here is pretty good. There are 80 part member families... Which is a ton! About half live on our side of the ward. There are some interesting Characters as well. Such as "Cowboy Bob". Cowboy Bob has recently started coming to church. He seriously looks like he walked out of a John Wayne movie. He wears a big black cowboy hat over his long, wispy white hair, black cowboy shirt/pants/boots and even one of those little ribbon tie/cravat things. He is very quiet and sits way in the back.

That's all I got for this week. Merry Christmas everyone! 

Love, 

Elder Bryce Johns