Hi family!
Well you have probably heard that I am leaving London and heading to the new promise land of Lexington. The spirit of the Lord has called me to leave and journey to a new land and preach to the people there haha! Got to bear my testimony 1 last time in the Corbin ward yesterday, and said bye to a bunch of people! We ate a lot of food too because people wanted to feed us!
Today I started packing and it stinks like always. haha I hate packing! So much stuff! I think I have too much. But it all seems to fit in my bags in the end. Thank Heavens for space saver vacuum seal bags!!
So let me start out with an experience/story that I recently had! Its all about prayer and how God hears and answers them.So a few weeks ago I week to McKee to work with an Elder there on exchange, and I forgot my camera case that has all of my memory cards of my whole mission in it. No big deal though, the next week I was going to work in Beattyville, on exchange, which is past there and I would just pick it up on my way back. So, this week after working in Beattyville we were driving back to meet our companions and we stopped in at the McKee Elders apartment and I grabbed my case, talked to the elders for a few minutes and then we left to meet our companions at a gas station so we could switch back. I loaded all my stuff in the car, grabbed my camera case, showed it to Elder Durfee and said "Look I found my case!" And then I threw it in our car. Well yesterday I realized that I could not find my case. Literally looked in every crack of that car and couldn't find it. Also looked everywhere in our apartment. Called the Beattyville Elders and they couldn't find it in their car either. My case was gone and we had no idea where it could be. It made me so so sick because ALL of my mission pictures were in there and now they were gone. The only thing we could think of is that maybe it fell out of the car at the gas station. I confirmed with Elder Durfee and his companion that they saw me throw my camera case into our car, but it wasn't there. Last night and early this morning I prayed and prayed so hard that I could somehow find this case. We were going to drive the 30 miles to the gas station just to look for it, which if it had fell out in the parking lot it would most likely have been taken. Well this morning I get a call from the McKee Elders...they found my case inside their apartment in the same spot I had left it the first time 2 weeks ago. There is no way that I left it there the second time when we went there to pick it up. We were positive that I had grabbed it, drove to the gas station, and then put it in our car. God answers prayers. I don't know if that camera case just floated back to their apartment or if I had actually left it there for the second time, but God answered my prayer. And I am so so so so grateful for it. Never ever underestimate the power of prayer
Gonna go eat at a Chinese buffet today with Bro. Johnson for the last time and then he's driving us to the meeting in Louisville tomorrow morning. He's a great guy. Love him to death!
Ok so heres another story about what we did this week. A member was moving this week and needed our help so we said sure. He and his wife and 1 daughter were just moving from outside of London to right in town into a town house. Well we show up to his house and he opens his garage and our jaws just DROP... this garage was just FULL of stuff half way to the ceiling. And it was all sorts of stuff. But then I though "Oh maybe they just moved everything out of their house into the garage so we could put it into the moving truck". Nope wrongo.. we walk inside, whole house filled with boxes and odds and end stuff everywhere. And we were the only ones he had asked for help haha he didn't want to ask the Elders quorum for help. So it was just us 2 and him. His wife was just boxing things up and the 30 year old daughter was just watching haha. Well, it took 4 hours just to load the truck and then another hour and a half to unload it. And the washer and dryer had to go upstairs in their new town house. So Elder Peck and I had to drag those heavy suckers up the stairs. (don't get me wrong, Im not complaining about it at all, it was a great work out and the member needed help, this is just a good story) Well after we filled 1 full size U-Haul truck, I guarantee they still had at least 2 or 3 loads left. Never ever seen so much stuff in my whole life. Went back a couple of days later to help them some more and it seemed like there was still just as much stuff in their house and garage haha! We couldn't believe it. After unloading another truck load into their town house the whole place was filled literally to the ceiling in some rooms. Boxes lined the hallways and bedrooms were filled to the door. I have no idea how they were going to even sleep in there! But, in the end they were very grateful for our help and we were glad that we could help! They are great people, just might have way to much stuff;)
Oh and so the new area that I am going to is in a branch and our area covers most of the UK campus. So you can guess what kind of branch this is, yup, a Young Single Adults Branch! Oh boy! Only 1 of 2 in the entire mission, and Im in it haha! I am dang excited! Our building is the stake center so luckily we have a nice full size building!:) And my companion is Elder Lynch. I've been around him a bunch before, he Is awesome. Super funny kid and he has the best attitude out of anyone that I have met! I am so excited!
Well its time to go eat at the Buffet! I am dang hungry. Didn't eat breakfast!
Love you all
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