The Week of Unexpected Detours

Hello Everybody!

        Very weird week this week.   Many random things
just popped up over and over again.  We weren't able to spend
as much time out proselyting as we would have liked to. Here are just a few
of the random things that came up this week, as given in a poem...

             I'm Confused

We're both out knocking doors,
Helping people come to Christ,
Biking - oh no! There's a bump!
Then this bike tire gets sliced.

Trying to plan for next week,
About to get finished up,
Ring, ring! An unexpected call!
Surprise meeting with Bishop.

We're on our way to dinner now,
Excited after a long day,
But nope! Off to help an old lady,
Into the mud her car had been swept away.

It's been a pretty crazy week,
We haven't done what we'd planned,
But whatever! We just keep smiling!
We know it's all in God's hands.

        Yes, many weird things this week... But the highlight was Darrell's
baptism on Saturday!!! We'd been talking to him since the very
beginning of when I came to Fort Caroline, about 4 months ago, and
there were times when we were convinced that he'd just never be
baptized. But he's changed so much and come such a long way - watching
his conversion has changed me as a person. So it was special to watch
him be baptized.

        The other picture is another surprise event - a sister tells us that
she is moving (this was Tuesday afternoon) and asked us to take the
food from her pantry and keep it! So we took it all and tried to fit
it in the car. This is the result. No cans or bones were broken in the
process.

  This past weeks district meeting was the best one yet, but I tend to get nervous the mornings before.  I LOVE GIVING TRAININGS SO MUCH. I love it not because I love talking and unfolding scriptures to people (even though that's fun) but I love getting people to receiving revelation as they speak. I love picking the right people to share their feelings and impressions, I love coming into a
training with a goal and then having the district get there without me even doing anything. 

   This past week I trained on Charity and the importance of loving our companions. This week I'm training on the importance of helping our investigators understand the concept of "remission of sins". Nobody in the south understands what a "remission of sins" is. They think that it's "1 cross + 3 nails =4given" (a bumper sticker that we saw a few days back.) Not even the right number of nails.... Try again....

    Why do they need a remission of sins? So they can "stand in the presence of God"! That's the role of everything we teach! I feel like our mission talks about the doctrine of Christ really well, but we tend not to understand why we're teaching it - so that our investigators know how they can be truly forgiven of sins.

Here's our sweaty district today.

        Love you all!!! Have a great week!

                        Elder McMullin