Week 97

San Jacinto Transfer 3 Week 1 - and then there were two.

May 19, 2014

Hello,

Back down to two elders today. Elder Snider got transferred to Corona. He will be living in the same homeshare I did, the Higgins. He wont be in the same area, but anyway.

This week has been pretty crazy. Serena and Payne are moving forward (mostly Serena) but they will need more interviews with President Smart before they can be baptized. It's a similar situation to Tommy's I think. But Serena loves church and a member bought her a quad. So that's good.
We visited everyone in the beginning of the week so we had to do a lot of "hunting" towards the last half of the week.

We finally got teaching in a trio down. We taught a restoration lesson in the beginning of the week which didn't go all that well, we role-played it in the middle of the week and we taught a really good one at the end of the week. As these things usually happen, once you get stuff down the Lord changes it up on you.

Last week, Elder Foster bought the Frozen Soundtrack... Now I have all the songs memorized.... ha ha.

A couple of interesting experiences from the last week.

Tommy blessed the sacrament yesterday. I was so struck by the cleansing power of the atonement as he was up there. God's arms are outstretched to all, all are invited but none are compelled to partake of the atonement.

We also got a call from a member to go give a blessing. We went over to his run down trailer in a little, ghetto trailer park. A raggedy dog greeted us quietly at the door. The brother inside called us to come in. He's bedridden and had some breathing machines hooked up to his nose. He was obviously in a lot of pain. We gave him a blessing and left shortly after. It was a very humbling experience. "There is always someone worse off than you, so stop whining" was the message I got from that experience. Also I was reminded of the power of the priesthood.

Going strong for the last transfer! A bunch of baptisms on the way!
Love
Elder Johns