It was a good one and very eventful! We had some pretty cool things happen by just being guided and directed by the spirit. We had a sick lesson with the girl we are teaching and it was on tithing! She totally just accepted it and has been living all the commandments for a couple weeks now it's so sick. She's like yeh I just make bank because I now charge my friends to be their designated driver. It was dope and were so happy she's choosing to follow Christ and making the best of it. I can see it's so hard when NO one else chooses to live these high standards and your the only one. We had a very interesting lesson with one of our investigators who we thought was pretty interested and has even been coming to church. When went to visit him again he just went off about how we are a cult and he didn't really want to have anything to do with us. I was just laughing he's spent way to much time on "bad things about the mormom church .org" and not enough time studying the Book of Mormon for himself. But it was funny he started by asking a bunch of questions and we clarified and corrected a lot of things for him that just weren't true but by the end it was basically him telling us that he has never felt God was there for him so why should he believe in Him? I asked him if he was happy right now in his life and he said, "yes, actually these past two months have been the most happiest times of my life and I have had a smile on my face every day! I've overcome some mental health issues that have been hard and now I feel true happiness" and I said, "I believe that was God helping you through some hard times and the happiness you feel is because he hasn't given up on you, have you ever thought about that?" And he just kind of looked puzzled and said, "um no, no that, that was all me and well maybe some other people but definitely not God!" I just kinda nodded my head and said, "alright buddy you keep being you and be happy!" It's pretty sad to see God's hands in people's lives and them not even acknowledge it. I think all three of us could tell by the end of that discussion that he just needs to study a little more before he starts throwing around crazy, false information, it was funny. Good guy though gave us a dope recipe for some yummy bread.
A cool story that happend this week, following a chain of events that happend Saturday night! We were just walking to the bus stop to hop on a bus we needed to catch and it literally drove past us and didn't even stop. I started off in a dead sprint to catch it and I got right up to it and it just drove off again?! I was like bro come on, I know he literally saw me and that's just not cool... then the dopest thing happend this old couple pulled over and said, " hey you guys get in, we'll help you catch that bus!" So we hopped in and they drove us to the next bus stop, which was a miracle because that NEVER happens here not in a million years. They were like, "are you guys preachers or something? And we laughed and said yeh in a way! Then he said huh ok well you guys catch your bus alright, I tried to give them a book of Mormon but they were not very interested so we just hopped out, it was so nice of them. We caught the bus and went where we needed to go and then that same night we tried to catch the bus coming back into sentrum and the SAME THING happened. It literally just drives right passed us stops and then before I could sprint to catch it we missed it. It was so funny not going to lie I was like man we just can't get any luck today, because all of our appointments got canceled too. It was a rainy night and there was no one on the streets to talk to. I actually turned to Eldste Bennet and said, "man this is the part of missionary work that stinks. When you have NOTHING to do, let's pray for direction and then go knock some doors!" Right then one of our investigators skirted by on a bike, we stopped him had a little chat and got his number because he didn't use facebook often and that was why he wasn't answering us. Then we catch the next bus and I started talking with this guy, he had a Yankees hat on and we started talking to him about it. Then all the sudden he asks like so how much longer you got left? And I said well I'm in Norway for 2 years then I'll go back. I'm actually a missionary for my church and he was like yeh I know I'm a member, and I was like what no way what's your name man and we started chatting. Turns out it was a guy we've been trying to get in contact with but had the wrong address and number so we got his new number and should be meeting up with him next week! Then right as we get off at the bus station another couple that we teach was sitting at a table and we went up and chatted with them for a while. It was a crappy night that turned into a dope one it was so fun!
Church was good this week we had only 4 in church and it was us two elders our recently baptized friend and the councilor in the branch presidency. It was a good testimony meeting we all shared thoughts then studied in the Book of Mormon from Come Follow Me. Then on Monday we decided to get some baking in because like ALL of our members and investigators are sick right now so we decided to cheer em up with some good ol American chocolate chip cookies. Thanks to my bomb aunt Trisha and her recipes we doubled it and made about 200 cookies! Haha it was great we just made the dough during lunch and baked some and would give them out and were going to keep doing it all week. It was so much though, holy cow we weighed it and it was about 10 pounds of cookie dough it was great. Today it was so funny because everyone here hates Amreica and Trump and I saw this dude driving down the street with an Amreican flag and a Confederate flag flying and I just yelled " Murica!!!" And he started honking his horn and it just made my day it was awesome. America is the best land no doubt about it! Today we did service to help clean out this ladies house and I found an old sewing machine and she was going to toss it out so I asked her if we could take it home and she said I don't know if it works but go ahead, so I took it home and remembered some stuff from my 7th grade CTE class. I sewed up my pants and made em look nice. Shout out to Mrs, Griffin for teaching me how to sew! And I've been cutting hair so I can do some fresh fades now so my kids boutta be looking fresh! Anyways it was a dope week I love being on a mission, you learn so many things and not just spiritually! I can knit, sew, bake, cook and cut hair now it's crazy. Never woulda seen myself doing that but aye I ain't complaining 👀have a good week and listen to your moms they know what there talking about!
Love Eldste McSpadden
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