Hey y'all!
This week seemed to fly by! I guess they mostly all do though :p
The beginning of this week was pretty normal. Just working all day, little success unfortunately. But as the week went on, things just kept getting better and better.
It all started early on a Thursday morning. 6:30, the alarm goes off as usual. It's my turn for comp prayer so I roll off bed to my knees and start conversing with the Lord. Half way through the prayer I hear heavy breathing from the other bed indicating Elder Wolfgramm has fallen asleep yet again while I was praying. I finished and then said my personal prayer. After working out with the Kingwood 3rd Ward Elders it was off to the shower. Now, our shower head is a little loose and will sometimes fall to the facing down position. This happened and thinking nothing of it, I reached up to fix it. As my hand approached it, the shower head started shaking and rumbling. Getting louder and louder. It was at this moment I knew, this wasn't going to be a normal day. The head blew off and immediately water with the pressure of all of Niagara Falls comes blasting out the side of the pipe. I half way protect myself from the shrapnel and also try and divert the water blast from soaking the entire bathroom. My one hand is covering the water and my other has half a shower head in it so I have to carefully try and turn the water off with my foot. Once the water is finally off, I stood there, with about a quarter inch of water covering half the bathroom floor... it was one of those moments you just have to go back and watch in the next life to see your own reaction. After I got it cleaned up and after personal study, we headed out. We had interviews with President so we had to bike to the church. On the way over we took a short cut through some green belts that pass by a middle school. On the path there was a middle school gym class running down it. They all moved to the side and we biked on the other side so we wouldn't hit any of them. As I was passing a larger group of girls there was a girl in the back of the pack who was running with her head down. Out of her peripheral vision she must of thought she saw an opening she could take and didn't see us because she suddenly side stepped right into the path of me and my bike... in the split second I had to react I pulled my handle bars to the right and skidded out trying anything to not hit the girl. But as I spun, my backpack clipped her side and then I spun out into the trees. I got pretty banged up by ragdoll-ing into multiple trees but I got up as fast as I could and ran over to make sure she was okay. She hadn't fallen over but she was holding her side. I asked her over and over if she was okay and she said she was and kept running. I felt so so bad though... I mean it wasn't my fault but still, it could have been much worse. Interviews went well then we did hour of power. We found a pretty solid potential and we will see how that goes! On the way home we stopped at the Kingwood 2nd Elders apartment to get a drink and smooch off some of their homemade strawberry cinnamon rolls. While we were there, there was a small knock on the door. We answered it and it was three little girls that had come by a few days ago asking for change for cancer. This time they told us they found a paper about God someone had thrown on the street. The then gave us a crumpled up JW pamphlet because they said they knew we cared about God. They then asked us "How come you don't come teach our families?" So, we are going to go teach their families! Haha we will see if the parents are as accepting as their kids!
On Friday we biked out to Porter to contact a referral and we realized the only way to get there was to bike along the freeway... and we aren't too fond on the whole dying thing so we decided to knock the street we were on instead. As we were knocking I saw some movement from the corner of my eye and a peacock comes walking around the house. So, I did the only sensible thing and I decided to see how close I could get to it. As I slowly followed it around the house it led me to an entire free petting zoo... in the middle of Porter... Greatest. Day. Ever. That night was the K3 baptism from our area. It went well and we were able to have a few investigators attend which was super nice.
On Sunday we were tracting around and we tried a former named Ryan and he is literally the most solid investigator I've met my whole mission. As we taught the restoration he completely understood and all of his questions fit right along. He was so prepared and completely believed that Joseph Smith was a prophet, that we have prophets today and that the true church of God and the priesthood and been restored. It was truly a miracle. He made sure we had his number so we could contact him again. I've been out for 8 months today and I've had lots of rejection and little success. I definitely needed that. I'm so grateful for this opportunity I have to help him to the right path. I hope and pray things will continue to go well with him. I thought of how our mission president the last zone conference told us his parable of deep sea fishing. How sometimes, to catch the big fish, we need to leave our comfort zone, put weights on the lines and go deeper. After the trial of our faith is when the miracles come.
Well, that's about it this week. I am so grateful for your prayers and support. We are all reading the Book of Mormon as a mission in 65 days. So that's equivalent to 8 pages a day. It took Joseph Smith 65 days roughly to translate the Book of Mormon. I invite all of you to do this challenge with us as we all try to come closer to Christ and to find the elect of God.
I miss and love you all!
Love,
Elder Wood
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