On wednesday, we met with Jim Brown and had a great meeting with
him. He had totally forgotten our last lesson with him but we committed
him to do the sticky note thing, and he agreed! We also asked if he
would be baptized if he came to know it was true, and he said "OF
COURSE!" He honestly loves Christ so much, its amazing! He knows his Bible forwards and backwards and says that he doesn't have time to read The Book of Mormon, because he has too much to read in the bible. I know
if he actually just reads and prays he will get an answer, so I can't
wait to see him this week and talk with him again!
So we also went to mutual on Wednesday, and David (kid we always
play basketball and football with) decided to come, because a young
women in one of his classes invited him. We did fear factor, and he
loved it! One of the activities was to eat random gross things, and the
leaders got us involved, I had to eat freaking octopus, it was so
nasty!! I most definitely threw it up hahaha! After the activity was
over, Olivia (that young women) invited him to church, and he agreed!! He said "I'm going to try it out," that is huge!! He has never wanted to
come (sisters you don't realize how much of an influence you have). So he
didn't end up coming, because of stupid daylight savings, but he called
us and promised us that he would be there next week!
We went over to see Quinton again, and he told us he was reading
from The Book of Mormon and his aunt came over to him and took it from
him, told him it was bad, and threw it in her burn pile! He wasn't really
fazed by it, because he knows it isn't bad, so he asked for another one,
and he is just going to hide it from her hahahaha! At the end of our
lesson, he prayed for us and he asked that "the mormon men will find
people to change and have the people that they see know The Book of Mormon is true." He is basically a member, but his dad and aunt aren't
interested, it's sad! I know he will join the church one day, hopefully
we can soften the hearts of his family and it will be soon.
On friday I went on a trade off with Elder Pranger, he's been out
for 1 month, it was pretty fun. We didn't teach many lessons, but we sure
did use our priesthood authority! We gave 3 blessings, it was
so dang cool! I honestly felt like one of the 12 apostle in the Bible,
just going around healing people, it was so cool! It's so amazing that we
have that Priesthood Authority on the earth today and we can do the
same things that were done in the Bible!
So the last noteworthy thing that we did was do the gallon challenge on Saturday. The Miskins invited us over to dinner and asked if we wanted
to do the gallon challenge, and we were more than happy to, we had
always wanted to do it! So Bro. Miskin and us all got a gallon of milk
and started drinking! It started out super fun, but then about half way
through, we felt so sick! I only made it 3/4 of the way before I was
outside throwing up! I don't think I had ever felt so good after throwing
up hahaha it was awesome! We had such a good time, they are such a
great family!!
Well, sorry for the long email, but it was a good week hahaha.
I hope that y'all have an awesome week. Love you all!
Elder Schipaanboord
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| Cool pond we found. |
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| Cool pond we found. |
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| 64 oz of Mountain Dew. |
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| After 64 oz of Mountain Dew. |
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| My sister sent out some Poo Dough (exactly what it sounds like) and a can of snow. I totally used the poo dough (I'll spare you the photos) and it was so dang fun! We put it in the middle of our floor when the other elders came over and they were so disgusted! It was so dang funny! And the snow, it was super cool! It came in that tiny can and expanded into a huge mixing bowl of snow, it was so awesome!! Things like that are so fun! |
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