3 exchanges this week, kept us pretty busy, although we still don't have a lot going on. Summer classed started on Monday, so there are a few people back in town, which is good.
Started our the week with Elder Hansen, he's been out for almost 2 transfers, super stud missionary. We hit up the campus and went hard. He was super bold approaching people who were sitting down and stopping and talking to everyone, great day.
Next exchange was with Elder Burrows, he's the other set here in Chippenham, he has served his whole mission Spanish up to this point, so you know we found some Hispanics to talk to Haha. We found a super cool girl named Elizabeth on that exchange.
Last but not least, Elder Brinkerhoff down in Midlothian. Elder Brinkerhoff is 6'7 and a major star wars buff, so we had a good time, talked to a couple old ladies about family history, but mostly just grinded it out in the 100 heat and 89% humidity 👍🏼 twas quite the hot day.....
Interesting story from this week ; last Thursday Elder Page and I went to the hospital to give a blessing to a lady. Her Mom, Dad, and sister were there to be with her. She was in a medically induced coma. Anyways 2 days later on Sunday both Mom and Dad had been admitted to the hospital for CHF and hypertension and a few other things, so went to take the sacrament to the whole family, the sister had been woken up from the coma at this point but was and is still in the hospital. We also gave a blessing to Mom, Dad was in the ER. 2 more days later, Tuesday on exchanges with Elder Hansen we went to go give a blessing to Dad, the only one who hadn't gotten a blessing yet, his health was going downhill, but we sat and talked to him for a good 15 minutes and he was in good spirits, Elder Hansen then gave him a very inspired blessing. We also gave a blessing of comfort to the sister who was originally the first one in the hospital, she was worried about her Dad and her relationship with him if he were to die soon, she wasnt very specific but I gave her a blessing of comfort and counsel. Also we didn't think that Dad would die cause he seemed good and the doctors were positive about his condition.
Okay halftime break, Hang in there with me Haha
Alright so now its Wednesday morning, we got a text from the other sister, not the one who was in the coma, informing us that Dad had died that night at 3am..... She had gone back up to northern VA with Mom (she was discharged) the day before on monday, and asked us if we would go visit her sister (the one who was originally in the hospital) and lift her spirits and just be with her. Her whole family left for home and her Dad died that night. So Elder Burrows and I went and visited her. Long story long, because of the blessing I had given her she requested to talk to her Dad that night and felt at peace with their relationship right before he died. She was unusually at peace with the whole ordeal.
Takeaways:
-Gods ways are not our ways, his timing is not our timing.
-Family is truly the most important thing in this life, and holding grudges is never worth it.
-Plans can change in an instant, this life is precious and its important to focus on what really matters most.
Alma 34:32
32 For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors.
District council and a Snapchat filters that makes me look like aunt Jill lol
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