Sweet, that Sam's going to scout camp! I remember those days.
Our new mission President, President Guffey, came in today and we are meeting with him on the 2nd of June for a little conference to get to know him better!
We had some crazy and some awesome stuff happen this week! We had a great lesson with Fred. Last week we had offered him a priesthood blessing, because he has cancer and the treatment that he is going through is really wearing him out, and he said that he would like one, so that was the first thing we did. The blessing was powerful and right when it was over he stood up and just kind of smiled and said "Wow." and we asked him how he felt and he said "Really peaceful." It was the first time ever that we had asked him how he felt or how he's doing and said something other than "Not so good." so that was really cool! We then talked about the priesthood and the member that we had with us testified about the church and the Book of Mormon and Fred said that he felt something as he was testifying. It was probably the best lesson that we had with him and he is making more progress now toward getting his answer!
Something crazy happened on Sunday. After sacrament meeting we needed to talk to the Bishop about something so during second hour we waited outside his office for him to come out so we could talk with him. While we were waiting we got a text and it was a media referral from church headquarters named Mark Brunner who requested a Book of Mormon and it said that he requested contact ASAP. So we hit call on his number and he didn't answer the first time, so then we waited about a minute and he called us back. When he answered he was like "Wow your guys' system is amazing! I sent that request in about 1 minute ago and you were already calling me, in fact the reason that I didn't answer is because I was on the phone with someone from your church!" Haha! So Elder Mapes and I set the record for fastest contacted referral ever. I know that means nothing to all of you but we were pretty excited. So he asked if our church was off of Redd rd. and Resler rd. and we said yes and then he said "I'm near there and I can head over to your church to meet you guys if that works for you?" haha and so we said yes and he came and met us. We started talking with him and he had been catholic his whole life until he got mugged one time, and then he really turned his life over to Christ and now he is christian. He has a friend that is Mormon and he wants to learn more about the religion so he can have a good discussion with his friend. So we asked him if he had any questions and what he wanted to learn and he kinda just started Bible bashing us haha... So I was talking to him and Bishop finally came out of his meeting so Elder Mapes went over to Bishop to ask him what we needed to ask him while I talked with Mark, and then he came back and we ended up sitting down in the foyer. He asked us a ton of questions about the Apostasy and priesthood authority and a couple other things but as we were talking church was just happening haha so members were going by on their way to class and they would all shake his hand and introduce themselves right in the middle of this! And then one member overheard us talking and he actually ended up joining in on the discussion haha! This member is basically a Bible scholar and so he was able to answer a lot of the questions clearly. So we taught him all the way until the end of church haha and we confounded him by the Spirit, and this all happened during church haha. He said that he wants to meet with us again this week! We have an appointment set up with him and he says that his two main concerns are that the Apostasy never happened and that the priesthood was never lost, and that Joseph Smith is not a true prophet. We think that if we continue to help him feel the Spirit that he will eventually come around!
I've been thinking a lot about obedience this week and what comes from being obedient in our lives. I can testify that being obedient is the way to happiness, power, and having the Spirit in our lives. There is such a noticeable difference when we are obedient and when we are not. God will lead you in your life as you live his commandments. He is bound when we do what he say, which means when we are obedient we will recieve blessings, but when we are not we do not have that promise. Please stay obedient to the commandments, and I promise that everything will work out, and you will change! I love and miss all of you and hope everything is going well! Talk to you guys later!
Love Elder Summerhays
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