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I
have this thing with having too many things in my pockets, especially when
wearing slacks. The keys to the car have this giant clicker button to lock
and unlock the car and I always hate having to carry around a large set of
keys. Well I decided early in the week to take the clicker off and keep it
in the apartment and just carry around the key. It was a great Idea until
we locked our keys in the car. We got a ride to the apartment 6 miles away
from the people who we had just eaten dinner with which was very kind of
them and broke in through the windows of our apartment. Fast forward 2 days
and Elder Tetuanui and I find ourselves looking through a locked window at
keys sitting on the floor of the car yet again. Boy I think I need to pick
up my marbles. Twice in one week. Never again.
On a more serious note. We have had a pretty
good week in that we got in and have really managed to rally the wards to
do missionary work. We spent the week visiting a lot of key members of both
wards just asking them to invite friends to special events or visiting with
quorum presidencies about what we can do to help them achieve their goals
while at the same time what they can do for us to achieve our goals. We got
a lot of referrals out of it and needless to say we have a ton of potential
in the wards now. We have 6 or 7 people that are just on the verge of
really taking the lessons and really making some progress. We pray and try
to live worthy that we will have the blessing of each of these people who
are so close to the most important thing in this life coming and finding
it. It really has been a few weeks of just planting seeds. On paper it
looks like we've not done much but in reality its been a pretty successful
week.
For instance we were told simply by a member
that they had a neighbor who had lost his wife a month ago. We stopped by
the house called the man by name and told him we were representatives of
Jesus Christ who would just like to share the message that Families can be
together forever even after death. He said he would love to hear it and we
set up an appointment on Monday. He seemed genuinely excited and like he
was almost surprised to see us there. What a promising seed.
We had an awesome Primary Program on Sunday.
This one little boy would throw both arms in the air and scream " I
will GOOOOO i will DOOOOOOO!" everytime it came to that line of the
song. The whole ward was on their faces laughing so hard, some even crying
at how cute and commanding he was. After it was over the bishop went up and
said "Surely as a bishop I will always go and do as the lord wants,
but even as the savior needed the apostles in the Garden of Gethsemane I
need people to help me, and a certain young man up here on the stand is
first on my list cause he will surely go and do and get things done."
It was an awesome joke and like the highlight of my week. One of my
favorite sunbeams in the ward also faceplanted it off the stage which,
though bad, was totally awesome too. :)
Hope you all are enjoying that lovely fluffy
stuff. I have to endure this awful 70 degree weather. Boy do people think I
am weird around here.
Love you all, Elder Gemperline
Taylor Gemperline
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