So to start off, when we left the church after I wrote the last email, we found our truck to have a completely deflated back tire...
But yeet am I right?
So that took the rest of the night to get that sorted out, but then, came the next day of teaching Doug! We taught him the plan of salvation and he really liked that. He had a lot of questions about suicide and if those who do commit it, do they go to heck. Well we had a pleasing message for him! We also worked on a church sheet so we could visit various churches and see if we could help any church hoppers. (Dont worry we havent gone to any yet, we are primarily going to go to their bible studies and share some extra truth to get them thinking. But then comes the of 4th of July!
It started with us helping out at a community event handing out snow cones for free, so in short I'm a pro snow cone maker! We had to get those poppin out like something that Pops things out very fast. And we got on the news!! It was for a little bit, and I haven't seen the footage, but they got us handing out snow cones in our white shirts and ties so that was super fun! We also decided to try knocking on a few doors to share a message about the chosen land, but unfortunately no luck there haha. We did see some pretty awesome fireworks just outside our apartment and man am I glad I could spend the 4th in one of 2 parts in America. We got to see some of the whites before they headed out to Utah.
Then the next day we had district council had an awesome training by the ZLs about developing the faith to find and it was quite a turn out to! The sisters were on exchanges so we got to see the STL and the sisters in our district sisters Newman and Clark, then sisters Powell and Edward's. Then the elders including the ZLs Elders Strong Atkins anderburg Ford Kennedy tait and us! It was super fun! Then we saw a legit trump statue on the way back and had to take a pic or 2. We then saw brother stiggle and had an interesting time with him. Then we did our weekly services for the Micmac farm by putting some steel frames together (dont worry no blisters this time haha) and then mowed Dale's lawn. It was when we were about to do that when the one drunk lady (who couldn't understand why we do service for free) came up to us and told us that she saw us mowing in the rain and told us that our simple act of service made her look at the world differently.
She told us that she has been having many suicidal thoughts, but when she thinks that, she thinks about us and they disappear! And that is literally the best thing that can happen on a mission. Is change someone's mindset on life and choose to keep living because of things like that.
The next day was pretty cool! Not necessarily spiritual, but because of my background on Anime (in short Japanese cartoons. my all time favorite is called erased: the town without me watch it then judge) and we were visiting Dan and some of his kids' friends where there and I talked Anime and games for like 2 hours. Dont worry, elder hatch talked gospel with dan, and the kid i was talking to (his name is Cameron) accepted a Book of Mormon! So that was awesome!!
We so taught Dallas that day to and hes doing so well we compare a lot of the Book of Mormon principles to the video games hes plays. Dont ask how, but it somehow worked haha.
Sunday was a little sad, no attendees that we are working with, Brandon is probably still out of town on his honeymoon, Joshua works every other Sunday, plus alex has baseball now. But what is cool is Aaron's girlfriend has been making Aaron come to church! And shes not a member haha. Then later Sunday we talked with Lumius again and taught him the plan of salvation with his wife outside. This happened by talking about family history first and then segwayed into temple work and baptisms for the dead and temple sealings they thought it was interesting, but they are pretty set. But it was cool so see there hearts soften a little!
Then Monday came around and we finally got to see Alex and Amanda! We went to one of his basketball games and talked with Amanda for an hour or so and shes still doing well!
We also taught sister Burress and may end up teaching her kids! (The father figure isn't a member and sometimes asks questions to her but isn't to fond of the church yet, just because he doesnt really know it or believe in anything) we then talked with Dan again he asked us to help him out in restoring his outdoor paint a course!
Then Nestor we decided we wouldn't meet with him till he reads some of the Book of Mormon and a chapter in the addiction recovery book (he doesnt have any addictions, but the info in the book is way good and describes what the atonement can do!) So yeah he said he would, but we'll make sure he does ;)
So yeah solid week! We picked up a few more people, Dan's kids and that one lady, well get there names soon too haha.
Love you all! Sorry it's a little late haha until next time!
Elder Dahl
Presque Isle, Maine
United States of America
Presque Isle, Maine
United States of America
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