This past week has been absolutely crazy! And this next week isn't looking any better :)
Monday night we... Uh... We did missionary work. It's been a long week. Can't remember exactly what we did, but we proselyted and it was fun :)
Tuesday we had another lesson with one of our solid new investigators but he's not very interested anymore so we'll see what ends up happening with him. We had a really spiritual lesson with Bessie. The spirit softened her heart and she committed to baptism on March 26th! We made a specific plan for her to quit smoking and she has been following it thus far :) We did some service for Shyanne (helping her with math homework) which was fun :) That evening he had another lesson with Travis who is part of a part member family. Today was also the day that the Weatherford Elders minivan got hit by a semi-truck. They were driving back from a doctor's appointment in the city and got stopped at some road construction on the freeway. Well the semi that was behind them wasn't paying attention and couldn't brake fast enough and would've rear-ended them going 40+ MPH if the Elder driving hadn't looked in the rear view mirror, saw the semi, and tried to get out of the way. So the back right corner of the van got hammered pretty good. Both the Elders were fine except for one of them got a black eye. It was definitely a miracle that they escaped practically unharmed.
Wednesday was a logistical nightmare due to the loss of the minivan. We had to wake up an hour earlier than usual in order to get to a leadership training meeting in the city on time. The meeting was really awesome and I learned so much about how to be a better leader :) After the meeting, we went to the mission office to work out the car situation with the vehicle coordinator. We ended up having to have 3 missionaries (Me and the zone-leaders) drive 2 cars back to the OKC stake center. So one of my zone-leaders was driving a truck all by himself which was really weird. When we got to the stake center, the zone-leaders had to do a baptismal interview. Then we headed west to pick up an Elder from Weatherford who was with the El Reno Elders for the day. We were almost there when we reaching a railroad crossing with a stationary train blocking our way. So we wandered around for a while trying to find a way around it and finally got to where we were trying to go. So at this point, any plans that we had for the day were out the window and so me and the Weatherford Elder drove back to Weatherford and spent the night with my usual companion and the other weatherford Elder. Longest day ever.
Thursday we were able to teach a bunch of lessons and saw lots of miracles! In the evening we went out to Cordell again to teach Beth and we were able to set a solid baptismal date with her which was awesome! She also said she would come to church next week which is super exciting!
Friday we had district meeting which was good. After dinner we had a lesson with Laura and Ruby. When we stopped by last week we gave her a la palabra de sabiduria folleto (Word of wisdom pamphlet) because she was having questions about coffee. Well apparently she read through the pamphlet and she decided to quit drinking coffee because of it #Miracle After that we drove to Yukon and slept over at the Zone-leaders apartment.
Saturday we had to wake up at 4 in the morning to a catch a bus that took us to Tulsa to meet with Elder D. Todd Christofferson (of the quorum of the 12 apostles) and Elder Lynn G. Robbins (of the presidency of the seventy)! Every missionary in the OKC mission and the Bentonville Arkansas mission were there which was super cool and rare :) We all got to shake their hands and the meeting was super spiritual. I learned so much and I feel so blessed for the opportunity to go :)
Sunday was pretty solid. We had Carl, Bessie, Bradley, and Shyanne at church. That evening we had a get-together with most of the members who live in Clinton and we got to have a missionary discussion with them to motivate them to do missionary work. It was really fun and everyone was glad that they came :)
Carl has been off cigarettes for 10 days now! He's staying strong and he's going to quit drinking coffee today. His baptism is scheduled for this Saturday but it may or may not happen. He's struggling with his testimony of the Book of Mormon. I'm pretty sure he'll eventually gain a testimony, I just don't know how long it will take. We thought we resolved his concerns the week before last but apparently not. It's really frustrating because he's had eye surgeries recently and so now he can't read. But for the most part, he's been doing really well :)
Bradley and Shyanne are basically the driest Mormons on the planet. They've been at Church the past 5 weeks in a row. We went over the visit them Saturday night and they had one of their friends over. We taught her the restoration and Bradley and Shyanne acted as members throughout the lesson and bore down in pure testimony. It was miraculous! #KindOfAMemberPresentLesson
Bessie is doing a lot better and is right on track for her baptism on March 26th!
One of the Weatherford Elders is going home early tomorrow for anxiety/depression issues :( so I will be in a trio with the other Weatherford Elder this next week until transfers on March 2nd. So we will be covering 2 proselyting areas with one companionship which will be interesting to say the least.
I've learned SO much this past week and my brain is fried right now but there is one quote that I really like. President David O. McKay once said: “Spirituality is the consciousness of victory over self." Our competition in life is the person we see in the mirror. Let us all strive to kill the natural man within us and develop greater self-mastery. As we do so, we will increase in happiness :)
Well I hope y'all have a simply wonderful week! Thanks for all your love and support!
Love, Elder Larsen
Alma 8:14-15
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