What a wonderful week. First off, Elder Fischer and I are staying together for one more transfer and because of complications with the fleet of new missionaries coming in, this next transfer will be 5 weeks from today instead of the regular week.
Okay miracle #1. We had to go
to the mission office one day (by bike) because Elder Fischer had to drop off
some suits. We go in the building for about 2 or 3 minutes and I come out to
find my bike tire completely flat. I look for holes in the tube and it looks
just fine, so I pump it up and we are on our way. About 15 minutes later we get
to a stoplight where we are on the road waiting for it to turn green. It
doesn't. Two more cycles go by and the light will not turn green to let us go
much to the displeasure of the amassing cars at the light, and FINALLY it turns
green. So we are going a little way forward down the hill and a guy with a long
board in about his 20's waves at me and signals for me to come over. He said
that he was not in a good position in his life and was drinking and smoking
etc. and wanted to have religion in his life. So we look at each other and say
we would be glad to help him on his quest. He said "you guys seem to be
the only one's trying to spread God's word these days." So we plan on
seeing him this Saturday. We looked through our area book and found out
missionaries taught him 4 years ago but he disappeared. It was amazing but I
could see the God had seriously delayed our journey so we could meet him. My
tire is still fine to this day, there's nothing wrong with it. Someone must
have just walked by and let the air out or something, but I can't explain the
stoplight. If we were there 30 seconds before or after our paths wouldn't have
met.
Miracle #2. We set someone on date for baptism yesterday!
We have a member dating a nonmember who grew up catholic and wanted to learn
from the missionaries. We have been teaching her for a while but she really
wanted to move slowly, but yesterday we talked about baptism and its purpose
and read her D&C 20:37 which talks about the qualifications for baptism.
She just got so excited and said "how soon can I get baptized?" So we
set her on baptismal date for Feb 23. It was a wonderful experience.
Miracle #3 I learned from Elder
Jennings today that one of our investigators is getting baptized on the 31st of
this month. She married her boyfriend two weeks ago and is getting baptized. I
hope I can go to that and get pictures. But it was nice knowing my efforts in
Heather Ridge have not been in vain.
So there you have it.
Wonderful things happening. I hope the miracles continue. Things are going well
and its warming up so a little easier on the biking side. Thanks so much everyone
for all that you do for me.
Elder Bringhurst
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