Family,
Today I am feeling GREAT because….. I just received two packages, one from Grandma
Carn and one from you. They are full of fun Halloween goodies and fun. Thank you, I cannot wait to dig in. We have to stay inside all of Halloween day
because of safety issues. I appreciate
the packages and love!
So this week has been very interesting.
This week we were asked to type up a conversion story and we
didn't know who to talk to about their story, so we did the "pause,
ponder, and pray" tactic. I said the prayer and waited before I
ended it. When I just sat there in the
middle of my prayer and listened to the spirit for an answer, it came. While I listened a name popped into my head.
Then I ended the prayer and we went right over to the house of the person that
had come to me. We met the sister that’s name came to me and learned of her
fantasic conversion story. We also had
the opportunity to meet and get to know her daughter. So I am confidant that I
have received an answer to my prayer.
Tuesday, Bud and Edna,
our neighbors, apparently found an abandoned kitten in their shed and
have adopted it, it is a very young kitten.
It keeps making this high pitched "meow" over and over and
over again, all day and night. It is very annoying, but on a positive
note, it makes us get out of the apartment faster. So I guess it is kind of good.
Wednesday was normal and we talked to some members and less
active members that day. Towards the
end of the day we were impressed to go see a certain less active members. We
went and taught him a little lesson and when it was time to leave, we left and
we were walking to our truck, we just so happened to pass a lady walking down
the street to where we were going. We
talked to her, we introduced ourselves and
explained who we were and what we are doing.
She said that she has never heard
of the missionaries. She had never even
heard or Mormons before! So we gave her a quick lesson and gave her a
pass along card and wrote our # on it and gave it to her! It was awesome to find someone who want to
learn more.
Thursday was very interesting. We helped move some
people out of a trailer park and into a house that was pretty nice. We
were moving them into the house and I noticed a ninja weapon, and I was like
what the heck?? I noticed another
weapon but this one was a small mace kind of thing with a thick wood handle and
six sharp metal blades on the end of it and then I noticed a sword. I was
wondering why does this guy have so many weapons?! He saw me looking at
them and told me that he regularly goes to a local renaissance fair and
regularly does battle with people. He wears a bear skin /fur trench coat for
his costume. Now he wants me to finish my mission and come back to their
house so he can take me out to his favorite Renaissance fair and do battle with
me. Yikes I don’t know if I should be flattered or
scared. They were very nice people.
On Saturday we visited and had dinner with a member by the
name of brother Wolfe. We found out that he has been collecting magic
cards (magic the gathering) since when it first came out in 1994. I told
him about Tyson liking the game of magic.
He then proceeded to show us every one of his magic cards. He has
stacks of magic cards about a foot tall to a foot and a half tall of decks that
he has put together and he has enough to cover his whole table!! Tyson
would have loved and understood the visit much more than I.
So that was my week, interesting to say the least.
Love everyone so much,
Love Elder Vance