6.4--No ipads

Dearest Ladies and Gentlemen, 

As the prior-mentioned-title states, we didn't get iPads.... NOOOO! Hahah jk jk! Actually, fun fact I wasn't able to attend Zone Conference this week either due to the fact that I was throwing up all the night before! Bleh, not the ideal situation, but everything worked out so Elder Barlow could go with our District Leader, and one of the other missionaries stayed with me!

In other news, as of yesterday I have officially been out for 8 months now! Where has my mission been going? It seems like just yesterday that I left for the MTC, and now I am 1/3 done with my mission! And it's been a blast! I have learned so much being out here, I have had good times, and there's been some rough patches in there as well! But mostly good! Probably the one thing that's stuck out to me the most on my mission is how awesome our Savior Jesus Christ is! I didn't really realize it  before, but He is Everything! He is my super hero! Whenever I read the scriptures I think to myself "Why are You so cool?". He's the Master Teacher. The Exemplar. The Servant and King. The Lover and the Chastener. The Hope when there's nothing else. I am glad to have gotten to know Jesus while I have been out here on the mission, and for me it truly begs the question for my decisions "What would Jesus do?"

In other news, we got not just one, but two referrals for people to teach!!! Wahooo! :) One of them we got because we made the decision to serve. We volunteer every Thursday up at the Senior Center up in Cloudcroft and take an hour or two and help them out with whatever they need! And one day, we were asked to help a man out to his car because he had trouble doing that on his own! And so we helped him to his car and had a good discussion and thought nothing else about it...until last Friday when his wife comes up to us and asks "Which of you young men helped my husband into his car?" 

I replied, " We both did actually." 

And then she gave us both a big hug, and Elder Barlow and I are still trying to figure out what's going on. She said, "I used to be Mormon, and now that my husband has met you, he's started asking me questions. How would you like to come over for lunch sometime so you can talk with him a little more?"

Can you say Miracle? :)

Anywho, it really impressed me that the small decisions that we make can really make the difference. I mean what would have happened if we were just "too busy" to help him out? Or what if we had decided not to go? Not that those questions really matter right now, but the cause me to think about the eternal nature of the little decisions that we make on a daily basis! :)

Anywho, tht-h-th-th-th-that's all for now folks!

Elder Jacob Guymon