May 20

Dear World

Some days, you wake up.

I mean, you wake up every day. Some mornings you wake up quickly, some slowly, some days your happy to wake up, other days you wake up looking forward to going back to bed, but most of those days aren't that significant. 

But.

Some days, you wake up. You realize you've been out of it for a while. Days, weeks, minutes, whatever really. It's an interesting feeling. That happened to me this week. It was a neat experience. It was on Tuesday actually. We were sitting in a car driving somewhere, and I sort of just woke up! And, consequently, the rest of the week was much more interesting than it probably would have been otherwise.

If that seems unusually like something you'd read at the beginning of a chapter in a mystery book, blame Elder Bangerter.  :P

So, Tuesday everything got really cool. We teach these two kids every week that were recently baptized. We see them twice a week every week, and we've just about used up all the little object lessons we could think of, so Tuesday we decided to test our creativity a little bit and try to come up with a way to reteach the restoration that they would really enjoy! our finished lesson plan looked like this

Twisties

Video

Phone prayer

Stringamajig

Prophet says

Car priesthood

Dispensation station

That doesn't look like much of anything, but what it was was a big hit! The kids loved it. We'll probably do things more like that in the future. :) That was sort of the way the rest of our week went. It was one of those weeks we have so often where nothing REALLY works out, but we manage to get all sorts of things done anyways. All week long we had odd little miracles, like one potential standing us up (which looks like a bad thing initially) that ended up with us teaching TWO lessons to a really solid investigator that we haven't been able to see for a month (which is a REALLY good thing!). Little things like that, but all week long. Nothing really went according to plan this week. At least, not according to our plan. I get the funny feeling it's all going exactly according to God's plan. 

Elder Wright and I have been praying a lot about how to help this little area, and where to spend most of our time, and it almost felt like this whole week was the Lord showing us which people we really ought to see..... it was kind of cool. We also had a lot of odd service projects. Mowing a lawn, painting a house, clogging a toilet (no, really. Clogging it. That may not have been what the man wanted us to do, but that was the end result of what he asked us to do. I don't want to talk about it.), all sorts of little things. Also, we've begun a new kind of competition this week. Who can kill the most mosquito's each day. I think Elder Wright's record is somewhere close to two hundred and fifty thousand. That's what it feels like anyways. I've lost count of all the bites that I have, but! The work goes on.

We have succesfully located and begun teaching the only Haitian man in all of Hawkesbury. Mission accomplished.

Anyways, all of that unorganized mess combined together to make a really nice week. :) And! To top it all off, I just found out today that one of the first people I ever taught as a missionary will be getting baptized this weekend, and I just might be able to swing my way into going. :D If you're going to pray for something, pray for that. :P His name is Greg Martin, you may recall him from emails about a YEAR ago, and he's amazing. There is nothing in this life that I have yet found that is more fulfilling, more thrilling, more enriching, than being there to watch someone change their life.... to see people's minds be opened, to see walls of stubbornness fall. It's incredible. :) So, I'll get back to you next week with the results on whether or not I made it out to that.

Thanks again for your support! have a good week! happy victoria day!