There is a Less-Active member that we are working with and we are finally making headway with him!! We had such a spiritual lesson with him. This man had been the Elder's Quorum President for many years, had a great family married and sealed in the temple, and suddenly, one year, everything in his life crumbled to pieces. His wife had an affair, he lost his job and his kids, and everything that could have gone wrong did. And now..5 years later, with a deteriorated testimony, he is at an all time low. When we were meeting with this man i had an amazing experience that i'll never forgot. I had a overwhelming feeling of love come into my heart, and a indescribable desire to do anything i could to help this man. I sat in silence trying to understand why all of the sudden i had this rush of emotion and it suddenly clicked in my head. I was feeling the amount of love that the Savior had and has for this man. And i sat straight up, and i told him. I said your Savior loves you. And he knew it!! It was so awesome. I'm freakin out in my seat while i'm typing this because it was such an awesome experience! Hahaha!
I feel as if God is much more concerned with where a man is, rather than where he has been, and who he can become, instead of who he is now. I know that if the Savior loved this troubled man in a small town in Iowa, that he loves everyone. Because he suffered for us all. And he wants everybody to rely his mercy, so we can get through this crazy world.
Haha so waay funny story!! We went on a few ex-changes this week up in Marshalltown Iowa. Pretty nice town. But while we were up there some members were planning on taking us out to dinner in this tiny town called Vining Iowa. Population 200 maybe.. We were all asking ourselves what is there to eat in Vining Iowa?? Hahh.. So we drive 45 minutes to Vining IA, and pull up to this big white building with cars lined up and down every street in the town. We walk into this waiting room JAM PACKED full of people and the first thing this guy says to me, as he is reading my nametag(probably drunk) is "Elder Russell... Are you ready to eat some nuts??" Haha so i am like what in the world is going on! And we go in.. And there is a huge banner says.. "ROCKY MOUNTAIN OYSTERS"
The Biggest Testicle Festival on the west side of the Mississippi! I just about DIED.. Haha the members that took us just started to laugh as they saw our faces. But we had the funnest time in the world. It was a way rough crowd of people! Big huge guys with burly beards, all with huge pitchers of beer. We were talking to a bunch of them and they were all skeptical at first.. But we became good friends within a hour! And by the way. The oysters were waay good! You can deep fry anything and make it taste good. Haha. And for those who are reading this and who don't know what a rocky mountain oyster is, dont worry about it! hahahaha! :)
Such a good week.. Very memorable. Once again the Lord blesses us with a good and successful week. We knock so many doors, get 95%of them slammed in our face, but i'm still happy and i wouldn't want to do anything else!
Love Elder Russell
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