Despite me being broken and slow we had a pretty good week, a really fast week as well. We are getting closer and closer to the next transfer and I can't believe that I am almost done with training. This week we will be having New Missionary Graduation which is weird because it takes me back to when I was in that situation no too long ago. So it should be interesting. Emma is still scheduled to have her baptism this Saturday so that's another thing we are looking forward to. We had a lesson with her on Friday and we were supposed to have her interview on Saturday but she hit a curb and exploded her tire and we went over and helped her with that but the car she drives is an ancient luxury car so it was impossible to even get the jack out of the car because it was screwed in place. We also had nice people stop and try to help but even that wasn't enough. We needed to reschedule so hopefully that gets done sooner rather than later. She is so ready!
Yesterday we had another lesson with Henry. We are still trying to work with him on setting a date for his baptism but it has been a slower process. We talked about the law of tithing with him and he accepted it as a commandment. We also asked him how the Word of Wisdom has been going and his tea drinking. And he said, "I'm going to be honest, I had some yesterday" haha. So we set new goals to help him overcome his tea addiction. We also talked a lot about the Priesthood and if and when he gets baptized he will have the opportunity to receive the Aaronic Priesthood. At first he was worried about that because he thought that it would be a huge responsibility but after talking about it more with him he thought it was pretty cool. Now all he needs to do is to continue to read and pray and see when a good time would be for him to be baptized. We will be following up with him this Sunday.
We had a cool experience with a part member family named the Hanson's. We haven't been able to teach in their home for awhile but yesterday he invited us over because he has been experiencing some really weird health problems and he asked us if we could give him a blessing. It was a good opportunity for us to be in their home knowing that his wife is not a member because she got to see first hand the power of the Priesthood. It was a very good blessing!
I shared the cool things that happened this week already now here is a weird/funny experience. I was in the store with Elder Kestner on exchanges and we were walking around trying to help people with their shopping and usually they are pretty nice to us about it and really appreciate us doing that but in this instance the last lady we talked to was very old and very grumpy. In our mid introduction of ourselves she cut us off and said, "You must be very bold to come up to me and interrupt what I am doing, get out of my way!" I said, "We are just trying to help people" and she said, "I already said no, now do you want me to say it louder?!" So she created a huge scene and there were literally five people watching it. All Elder Kestner and I could do was walk off and laugh our heads off and say, "We'll see her at Judgement" It's cool how we have experiences like this because now with the experience I have as a missionary I'm not phased by any of that, as I probably would have been back home or at the start of my mission. You just got to be as Christ-like as you can be in every situation.
Well, this week was awesome! Thank you all for all the prayers and support as I have been going through the situation I have been going through. I have felt the extra strength to fulfill my responsibilities that I have and I know that's because of all your wonderful prayers. So I appreciate it. I love you all and I hope you have another awesome week.
Stay bruisin!!
Love,
Elder Weese
1) Biggest/heaviest coat ever!
2) Walkin' the park!
3) Welcome to the McKinley's!
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