Heyyyyyy!!! Happy Thanksgiving! I hope it was a joy and pleasure for each and everyone of you. This year for us was a lot different than last year. I didn't get sick and I only had one dinner, but last year I got super sick and ate like 4 dinners. It was a lot more pleasant this year. We had the dinner over at our ward mission leaders house and stuffed ourselves with turkey and pie. It was a great time. Beforehand, since we had no where to go, we went to the church and were there the whole morning just playing basketball. I couldn't complain about that really, but it made me super sore the next day.
Well, there's some excitement in the air here in Norman. It feels like it's been a minute since I have written last and since then, there have been a few cool things that had happened. We are now teaching a representative for the state of Oklahoma. Her name is Merilyn Bell and apparently a ton of people here know a lot about her. I had no idea how big she was in the state as we were teaching her for the first time, but a lot of people know who she is and is very surprised that she was open for us to teach her. We met her tracting in a pretty nice neighborhood. You could tell from the get go that she was super intelligent and had a broad knowledge as to what is going on in the world, but when it came to religion, she had nothing. She grew up with it, but never was super intrigued by it and she told us the thing that intrigues her now to learn more about it is because now she has a family on her own. So she agreed to meet up and we met her at a restaurant on Wednesday and just got to know her a little better and taught her the first half of the plan of salvation. During the lesson, she told us that she didn't have such a huge relationship with God and Jesus Christ and that she has tried over and over but it never worked out. We were just testifying to her about God's love and the Spirit was so strong during it. She did tear up during it so I think she was hit with the spirit very hard and we will be seeing her again tomorrow to teach her the rest of the Plan!!! We also are teaching someone named Sherrie Snow who is actually trying to return to the church after having taken her name off the records of the church. She wants to come back because of how disconnected she felt with the other churches she went to and she has always been drawn back to this church. We will be finally meeting her tomorrow as well as Merilyn as well as a part member family named the Smiths. It's gonna be an awesome day and an awesome week.
Life is good out here. I'm thankful for this awesome place and for the many experiences that only comes by being apart of this glorious work. I'm looking forward to this Christmas season as we have the chance to remember the birth of the savior. I know he is the Savior of the world and that he is the Christ! He has made so much of an impact on so many people. I encourage all of you to light the world this year and to bring some happiness to those who may be needing it. I love you all. Be safe, especially through all of that snow I see that is happening back there....
Love,
Elder Weese
1) Mission Tour with Elders Peiper and Alliaud!
2) Happy giving of thanks!!
3) My neighbor came to see me!
4) Gifts from G-Ma!
5) BB8
6) Pond, pond, pond
7) Wazzup!!
8) It's about that time!!
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