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| Snow in Colorado Springs |
Another great week has passed,
I
got to spend a lot of time working with our investigators this week
teaching lessons about the
Restoration of the Gospel, the
Law of Chastity,
Word of Wisdom,
Fasting and paying
Tithing. They all are
really excited about what we teach and are more than willing to follow
those
commandments. It's so great to see the work of the Lord in
progress and his influence in the people here. One experience is when we
were teaching the Word of Wisdom to a young man who has a problem with
smoking; he handed me his lighter and we disposed of the rest of his
cigarettes, and he has been doing great since. He is an avid reader of
the
Book of Mormon and is a lot of fun to be around.
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| Light Dusting of Snow |
So... It SNOWED this week!!!! [Those are not
excited exclamation points] One day the high was in the upper 40's and
it was just freezing and overcast all day. It's only mid September, this
shouldn't be happening. Luckily, the next day the weather was back up
to the 70's and sunny; which was perfect because we did service all day.
I'm not looking forward to future snow days, but at least I'm a little
prepared. Some members here gave me a pair of awesomely warm snow boots
for when it gets cold. We cleaned up their shed and backyard and they
gave me boots!
So we have some pretty exciting news! Our
area is notorious for being the largest and most difficult biking area
in the entire mission. That's definitely not the exciting part, nor am I
really happy about that. There are some parts of our area that we
haven't even been to yet, because it's so difficult to get there on bike
and would take all day (and we only have 1 or 2 less active members in
those areas each). We don't usually make the trip because it is just
really inconvenient. Well, the two sister missionaries in our district
live literally right next to the area we never visit (a block or two
away) and we talked to them about possibly working in that area. We had kind of said it in a
jokingly manner but they called the mission president and he approved
them working in our ward effective immediately. So we now have
sister missionaries in our ward. They've really been a big help so far
and we are excited about the prospects of getting more work done. It
helps make our job a little easier and they're excited because they
don't have enough people to teach in their ward. The work is going to be incredible in
our ward, we can't wait!
Sorry, I have to cut this short,
I'm going to get kicked off the computer in the Library. I will write
some more details and pictures next week. I love you all so much!!!
God is Great!
Elder Gillingwater
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