This past week has been most
excellent for me down here in Albuquerque and I hope that everything is going
well for all of you. And if its not you can always write to me and tell me
about it *cough cough* ;) hahah well anywho... Thank you for all of your love
and support. I always love to hear from all of you!
As far as things down here in the
land Albuquerque go. It's going pretty flippin' good! This past week was kind
of crazy because on Tuesday, Elder Jewett crashed his bike and it caused us a
whole bunch of bike problems the whole rest of the week... But it's ok, because
even though we had bike problems, the Lord provided people to take care of us.
Also this past week we had Zone
Conference (A combination of one or more Zones to train missionaries) which was
pretty amazing! President Miller gave some awesome trainings on turning more to
the Savior. Also the Assistants to the Presidents and the Zone Leaders gave
some really good trainings on how to make our missionary work more effective.
Conference was all around awesome though! Oh and I also got to see Elder Yates
again at the conference and talk a little with him.
And last, but certainly not least,
Elder Jewett and I have had a couple of awesome things happen this week that we
wanted to share. Both stories have a lot to do with the power of prayer. The
first experience happened at one of the lowest points in our week. On this past
Wednesday we were trying to fix Elder Jewett's bike and the inner tube to his
tire blew out. And as we tried to patch up some of the holes in it, nothing was
working. And finally we gave up and so we travelled to the store to buy a new
one. At the store, Elder Jewett's debit card froze and so we couldn't buy the
tube and so we got home and we didn't know what to do. We were both
really down, because we had no idea where to turn to. We needed our bikes as
soon as possible, and it wasn't looking like we would get her fixed anytime
soon. And at this time we both prayed and asked that somehow we would be able
to find a tube so we could get back to work. And nothing happened, and nothing
happened, and then the Stake President called and asked if we were still on for
dinner and then he told us that he had some extra tubes that we could
have.
And I know that story is kinda
silly, because in the grand cosmic scheme of things an inner-tube isn't going
to make or break eternity. But it made a big difference to us knowing that
someone watches out and cares for us!
The second story actually took place
today, but first I want to give some background on the story. So last Friday
after a lesson with a less-active member and Elder Jewett, a ward member,
and I were walking back to our apartment complex. And as we were walking over
we asked if this member had any advice for us. And he did. :) He said,
"Elders the thing that made the difference in my mission was believing
that miracles can happen. And once you start having enough faith to ask for
miracles, they come, and then missionary work becomes truly fun!" And so
that night Elder Jewett and I decided to do just that and ask for a miracle to
have a baptism on October 26th. And then we got to work and kinda forgot about
the experience. But today a miracle happened.
So a brief interjection into the story
to add in some background info onto our miracle story. We have been meeting
with an Investigator named Jeremy for as long as we have been here. In fact
Jeremy has been meeting with the missionaries for 14 years!!! He is so amazing
and has wanted to be baptized for several years now, but couldn't be because of
some things that happened in the past. And for the past years he has been doing
his best to try and get the situation finished up.
Picking up the story again, for the
past little while, Elder Jewett and I have been wondering what we could do to
help him progress towards baptism. And a little while ago we got the impression
to have him talk with the Mission President about baptism. So we
scheduled a date for him to meet with the President, knowing that he may or may
not be able to be baptized. And so today we travelled with Jeremy to his
interview. And to make a long story short, Jeremy came out of the
President's office with a big smile on his face, and President said
" So Elders, when are you going to get this man into the water!"
Elder Jewett and I had big goofy grins on our face and we asked Jeremy when he
wanted to be baptized. And as it turns out there is another baptism going on this
Saturday and so he said, "Let's do it Saturday!"
So needless to say Elder Jewett and
I are incredibly stoked ( and we will have our hands incredibly full) for Saturday!
But that date isn't quite set in stone yet. Jeremy is good to be baptized as
soon as possible, but the Bishop may have him wait a week or two so that way we
can have more people come out to his baptism. But we are excited no matter what
comes!
Anywho thanks for all of your love
and support,
Elder Guymon
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