Easter Haikus

Hello everybody! 

        This week has been good. Very busy visiting people and lots of appointments. I am really excited for Easter this weekend! What a blessing to be able to focus a little more on Jesus Christ. Here are some short haikus about Easter, because I don’t have time to write much today. 

The Lord Jesus Christ,

He saves us from the darkness,

I love him dearly. 

This is Easter week,

A time to remember Him,

Let us serve our Lord. 

Love you all!

Here are a couple pictures from the week:

Elder Boehme and I! He’s from Canada and one of my favorite missionaries in the mission. He is so hardworking and funny. Also, sorry that his eyes are closed, but this is the only picture we have. 

A member’s kids got a hold of my iPad. This is one of my favorite families here in lake city. So fun, so lively, really funny. 

PS:   Addition from Asher's mom:  In my letter this week,  I asked him about the epic highs and tragic lows that missionaries experience.  He laughed, and responded with a good description of what his Sunday was like. I thought some of you might enjoy a glimpse of regular mission drama.

"Yes... I do feel like that many days. For example, Sunday morning!

   On our way to church at 8, we stopped by and knocked on the door of an investigator family (they fasted and prayed all day Saturday that they could come to church). They came outside and pointed to a trailer next to them, which we then noticed was charred inside and out, and the trees around it were covered in ash as well. Apparently, somebody had been smoking at 4 in the morning, with oxygen tanks in their home, and the trailer had exploded. So nobody got any sleep and they couldn’t come even though they’d promised to come the day before. That’s the 5th week in a row that something crazy like that was happening.

Then, we head over to the church and try to send a text to the ward council about investigators to expect at church. It won’t send. We ask our sisters to send it, and it sends, but is total gibberish. Finally, we send it to a member and he sends it to the ward council group text. Satan doesn’t want out investigators to come to church, apparently.

Get to church, and a family walks in, the Davis’, who were supposed to pick up our investigator Jerry and his member wife Cami. But it’s just the Davis’ walking in. They had stopped by and nobody was home.

 Then, we get a text from a member family, the Hansens, who we have been meeting with and working with to help them invite their friends. Sister Hansen tells us that Zoe, her 7 year old daughter, is bringing one of her friends to church, and tells us about the amazing natural missionary conversations that Zoe has had with her friend. So that lifts our spirits at least a little.

No investigators show up to sacrament meeting - we walk to the foyer and see Steven, a member referral from Raymond, also in our ward. That also lifts our spirits, and he stays all 3 hours and we met with him yesterday afternoon. He loves the Book of Mormon and especially when we shared 1 Nephi 13 - the prophesy of the colonization of America. 

So yes, I understand what you mean with the ups and downs :)"