Week 63

Hello Family!! It was SOOO good to talk to you guys yesterday.. Haha its pretty crazy.. I'm sorry i didn't get to talk for very long.. And tell Berklee and Sayler i'm SO sorry that i couldn't call them.. I was so sad that i didn't get to talk to them.. But i'll send them a letter!

 

Anyways.. It was a great week.. I had a story that i wanted to tell, that i didn't have time to tell over the phone yesterday!

So we are meeting with a girl who's a single mother and she really doesn't understand the concept of faith.. She's had some rough things happen to her in her life. We have been meeting at this place called Panera Bread every Tuesday morning, at 8:30 because thats really the only time we can meet with her work and kids schedules! It's a pretty loud place and there seems to be a lot of people there in the mornings! It's hard to feel the spirit sometimes because of all the distractions! Anyways.. So we felt very impressed to teach her the Plan of Salvation, and we prayed that the spirit would be stronger than the voices all around us. We began by asking her if she's ever lost a loved one before.. And it turned out that she had lost her mother not to long ago and it was still very hard for her.. She was crying.. We began teaching her the plan of salvation, and it was like the whole room went silent to us, and we could only hear eachother.. It was such a cool experience!  She LOVED hearing about her mother.. And where she was.. The spirit bore testimony to her that day, that it was SO true! And now she has a totally different attitude about the church and it's teaching.. Haha she says it will be a while before she joins the church.. But we'll see :) Hah!

 

Ha the library in Ankeny is being remodled.. So we're kinda bouncing around trying to find places to email! Sorry it's so late! But its all good..

Today we played Frisbee Golf for P-Day.. And I got poison ivy all up my leg.. Pretty nasty!! Haha!. And i'm pretty sure i have an ingrown toenail.. ! Haha! But it's all good! Fun day today..
Anyways.. I love you and miss you all!

Mom your mothers day present is in the mail! And your gonna flip cuz its so awesome.. Haha a member in the ward here volunteered to help us! Its SWEET! I didn't wanna bring it up yesterday on the phone cause i would have told you what it was!

 

I love you guys!

Love Elder Russell