So... you know
how many students stay around for Thanksgiving break?.... not very many... haha
But we were still pretty busy for how few people we had to work with. It
felt like everyone was dead or something. Speaking of which, it is good
to know that mom is a good enough shot with a rifle to survive a zombie
apocalypse! I loved the pictures! I about died seeing Ryan and Leah going
gangster Santa this year. And it is good to see that Elder Gundred is
being taken care of and having success. I miss him a lot but we do email
every week, so we stay in touch.
I got the tree! Elder
Reece and I are super stoked to put it up in the apartment! I feel like I am
missing out on a joke though because all of Leah, Mason, and Owen's ornaments
said "I smell" on them... Kevin.... haha So I was wondering
what was up with that?
I got my new companion
last week. His name is Elder Josh Reece and he is from Payson Utah. He is
a super hard worker which is awesome! He spent 6 months in the Imperial Valley
(the desert) and a little over a month in Julian. Yeah! Right next to Ramona!
so it has been really fun trying to get used to being Zone Leaders because
well, I've only been doing it for 6 weeks and this is his first transfer... So
we are rocking it doing as best as we can for our inexperience. We are
working hard though! :)
We have seen some
awesome miracles the past week! First off, Ana Karen got baptized! She is so
awesome! She is the one who grew up going to the Spanish ward around here and
came back with her friends to the YSA Ward. Her parents only speak
Spanish so we had the entire program in Spanish. Elder Nichols even
baptized her in Spanish! My favorite part (other than the ordinance itself, of
course) was when we had two Spanish missionaries teach the Restoration while
they were getting dried off. We had a lot of people there that didn't
speak Spanish so what they did was teach the Restoration in English and the
other one translated. It was super cool because the Spirit was so strong
whether we understood everything or not.
Next, we had like 20
minutes before we had to be in for the night and it was Thanksgiving weekend so
no one was out by SDSU. But we decided to walk around anyway and see who
we could find. So we talked to a few people and they are all moderately
interested. After we gave away our last Book of Mormon we started walking back
to our car, so we could head home. But on our way to our car we see a guy
munching down on some McDonald's. So we start talking and he is just full
of questions! He said that he had prayed earlier that week to be able to come
closer to God and we told him, "Well, we are your guys!" We had
a great conversation and taught about the restoration and he loved it.
It is super fun to see
all the crazy miracles happening in our day! Elder Reece and I have had
some really great experiences already. We were able to be a part of an
amazing miracle which strengthened my testimony in the priesthood this past
week where Elder Reece healed a woman who had severe back pain. As she stood up
straight and began to walk to her house she said, "The pain is gone! I
feel much better now! Thank you!" While we weren't able to find her
LA grandson, I know that we were still needed there.
I love you all so much
and can't wait to hear about the Christmas Craziness!
Love,
Elder Ethan John
Rowbury
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