It's been awesome being able to serve in the
Liberty Stake. Liberty Jail is in another ward, but is about 10 minutes
away, the temple is in our ward, and is ten minutes away. Our stake
center/ the church building we go to is right next to the temple, like a
1 minute walk away. We are double covering 2 wards and the mission home is
in our ward. President Love is technically in our ward but he's always
going to other wards.
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| Elder T and Elder SandKamp at Brown's house! |
Life has been crazy
this last week. Turns out being a zone leader means you do a lot of
paperwork and deal with getting people rides places and all that fun
stuff. So much of that's been going on, I've hardly met any of the people
we're teaching... We're trying to get all caught up tho. We had some
cool moments meeting ward members this week! I met Jordan & Lauren
Brown! He's the assistant ward mission leader/ gospel principles
teacher. They're awesome. We're 3rd Cousins. Haha pretty sweet. She said
she's met grandpa before! She just went out to Utah and said her Grandma
was talking about Grandpa Mike a bit! I feel bad for her, she's having a
big jaw surgery and will be in Utah for over a month!!
Another
cool story, we met Jared & April Bodine in our ward. They are
a young, 25 year old couple. He's in med school. They're super awesome. He
was asking all about me, my life and my mission. About 20 mins into
talking to them I realized I'd seen him somewhere. As he was talking, it
clicked in my head the days prior to my mission, like a few days before
I left, there was a YouTube video (Click here to watch the video)
I kept turning back to and watching over and over again to get in the
Spirit. It was a video of some missionaries sharing their cool
experiences and testimonies of their mission. He was telling a story of
his mission in that video. He gave the most powerful story of his
experience converting a young punk drug dealer in Mexico. I seriously
remember that video vividly, and you
know how bad my memory is! That's how much of an impact that video made
on me! I cried as I watched that video. It was such an awesome, random
thing. I shared with him how that video impacted me, and I couldn't help
but get choked up as I told him that and shared my testimony of the
Book of Mormon. It was such a tender mercy, one I really needed that
night. Such a cool moment.
I love this gospel. Til' next week! :)
- Tan
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