Week 72

Why Hello Everybody! Another week has gone by, and here I am doing the same thing I do every Monday.. Haha pretty funny..

 

I'm getting some funny looks right now.. Haha Lexee sent me this AWESOME tie made out of Lego's so i'm wearing that.. And my contacts were really bugging my eyes this morning so I brought the glasses that I got before my mission out in public.. And they are big, round, and straight from the 70's.. So i'm not to sure anyone can take me seriously right now.. Haha probably won't wear the glasses again in public.. But people LOVE the tie! Haha especially little kids!

 

Anyways.. This last week I had a few teaching experiences that were very memorable! We were teaching this Mom and Dad about our church. They are good friends with the Bishop of our ward and his family, and they had taken them to Nauvoo to see the pageant not to long ago.. She invited us in, so we could drop off this free CD that you can order if you come to the Nauvoo Pageant! So we went it, and she then began to tell us how wonderful every Mormon person is.. She said "I think in order to be a mormon you have to be very talented, extremely loving and friendly, very prosperous, and have a minimum of 5 kids." It was pretty funny.. Haha! Then she said this.. She said " I love you guys, and I envy you, but i'm VERY firm in my baptist church, and I do a lot of things there, have a lot of friends there.. and I plan on staying that way untill I die."

As our conversation went on, we began to mingle Gospel Principles into our conversation, and that led to her asking questions.. Which led to us answering them.. Which led to a mind that was blown!! Haha.. She was so taken back at the simple truths that we taught her.. Soon enough her husband joined in the conversation and his mind was blown away! We taught them about the Book of Mormon.. And we said to them that if they wanted to know if this was true.. They needed to pray and ask God. Because he's the one who will never lead you astray. We said " Us 20 year old kids can tell you all we want.. But your never going to know if its true unless you ask God." Then the Father of the home said.. " You've got us pointed in the right direction though.." ANd when he said that chills ran up and down my spine.

A few days later, the Mother was on the phone with the Bishops wife, who's her good friend, and she said, " I can't leave my church! I have so much going on there!" And Sis Seaman said.." are you trying to convince me, or are you trying to convince yourself that that will never happen.." I believe a big change is ready to take place in their home.. We'll see how they react to the opposition of a baptist minister.. It can be brutal! Hahaha! :)

 

Thats one of 3 awesome stories I really want to tell you.. And I think I only have time for 1 more!

 

We have began to teach an In-Active member and his girlfriend.. We went over there, and it was cool to see how the Lord has been preparing them! They asked questions about the word of wisdom.. "Why not Coffee? Why not Tea? Doctors say that Tea can prevent heart problems! And plus.. Jesus drank wine!!" We taught the Restoration and don't ask me how.. Because I really can't even remember what we said.. But at the end of the lesson, we walked away and they had a determination to live the word of wisdom. It was SO cool.. They each said " I get it.. It makes sense now.." It was a very rewarding feeling to have! LOVE IT!

 

Haha one thing I forgot to tell you guys about last week! So the Pageant ended on a Saturday night.. And they asked our Mission President if he could let all the missionaries come and help clean up after the pageant. And it was a project!! Holy cow.. The Pageant is amazing.. And I never realized how much goes into it untill I was taking it all apart piece by piece! Haha We stayed up untill 3 in the morning taking all the stuff down, and they still weren't done when we left. It was crazy.. It felt really weird being in normal clothes arounds people. I felt naked.. Haha!, and also staying up untill 3 was super weird..! Haha.. But anyways I thought that was cool and i wanted to tell you!

I LOVE YOU ALL! I GOTTA GO!

talk to you next week!

LOVE Elder Russell