You know, I was praying for some exciting experiences this
week and boy oh boy did we get them. Not with like investigators and stuff
(well we had a couple of those too) but with just random crap that happened this
week. hahaha first I will talk about the spiritual stuff and then just the
funny/interesting experiences we had. Shall we dive in????
So, we had lessons with the Grindles and the Busby's this
week. All of our other appointments fell through :( but it's all good there is
always next week. Our lesson with the Grindles went really well. We went over
and the whole family was there!!! I was so pumped to see Michael the father
there. So, we went in and Liney pulls out this HUGE packet of papers she
printed off about Mormons from Wikipedia. Not going to lie when I saw that my
heart dropped. But surprisingly enough Wikipedia did a good job at just giving
facts about the church, no anti :D that made me happy. But she had a bunch of
questions after she read that. Especially about why the church moved around so
much in its infancy. We explained because of the persecution. She was kind of
shocked at that fact when we told her it was legal to kill Mormons haha. I mean
usually when people find that out they are pretty flabbergasted (YES, I HAVE
BEEN WANTING TO USE THAT WORD TODAY!!!) She also had questions about
polygamy.... of course..... but she actually said it made sense to her why we
did it........ best reaction I have seen to polygamy ever.... I wasn’t going to
argue about it. but other than that, we had a really cool conversation about
how we can KNOW if God calls prophets. That was one of their questions was how
do you know if there really is a prophet. We explained that the Book of Mormon
is the evidence. We asked if she had prayed about the Book of Mormon in
specific. She hasn't......... I shocked at how many people don't do that.....
hahaha we explain it at our first meeting that we can pray about it haha. They
all said they would do it. Joseph the son is rocking it he is already in 1
Nephi 20's. It's way awesome. The
coolest part though Is when we asked Liney if there was a specific topic they
wanted us to cover. She said she wants to hear more on baptism!!!!!! So, this
coming Thursday we will be having a lesson with the whole family about baptism.
We are going to extend a baptismal date that day :D I'm excited! Pray for
them!!!!!
Our lesson with the Busby's wasn't really a lesson actually.
we had 2 small stop by visits because we weren't able to set anything up. So,
we went over wed night when we were doing splits with the elders quorum (for
those who don't know what splits is my companion and I split up and go with
another Priesthood holder and go and visit as many people as possible for an
hour) we stopped by the Busby's where the elders quorum president really
clicked with the Busbys!! I was way happy about that. So, while he talked with
the parents and established a good relationship with them I took Ethan the son
and played some chess with him ;) I was going to let him win and then I
realized how good he actually was. He almost beat me, but I won in the end. Yes,
Elder Field beat a 10 year old in chess. Don't judge me. I'm competitive okay.
;) They then invited us over on Sunday night to carve pumpkins with them. So,
we were able to go do that and talk to Laina about some questions she had about
the church concerning tithing. We explained it to her and were able to
establish where she was at. We asked her if she could see herself joining the
church. She said she hasn't really thought about it. But after taking a few seconds
to think about it she said, “Yeah I could see myself joining.” They are going
to be a while before they are ready but I will be praying for them :D I love
those guys.
Cool news. IDK if you all remember a Debbie Jackson I was
teaching in Vallejo. Well she has a baptismal date for November 11th! She
messaged me and said she wants us to come! It's cool because that was my first
transfer when we found Debbie and now she is getting baptized.
Now into the crazy stories of the week. It all started with
a service we did for a member with our ward mission leader. They needed some
trees cut down so we were cutting down trees..... Well..... After we cut 3
trees the 4 missionaries who were there started to feel a little no Bueno......
Well we went to cut a forth. I walked up to our ward mission leader and told
him we don't feel good about cutting this one down, it was hanging over a fence
pretty far, he had devised this plan and said everything would be okay. I still
wasn't feeling good. So we tied a rope to it and started cutting it and lo and
behold, the tree fell and destroyed a fence...... Yeaaaahhhh..... Fun
stuff
The next night we were lying in bed and it was really hard
to fall asleep. Right before we went to bed though I had the prompting to lock
the doors. So, I got up and locked all the doors. Haha well here comes the
kicker. I couldn't get to sleep. All or a sudden we hear 6 police cars roll up.
We see flash lights shining all over our apartment complex. We'll we hear
yelling and cuss words and what not. And we hear someone yell "stay in
your apartment!" it came right from behind our sliding glass door to our
little porch, so I then spring out of bed and run over to the lights and turn
them on. So, we sit there for a little bit and we heard a knock. A nice police
officer asked if he could come thru our apartment. We let him thru and he went
on the back porch. Well 2 mins later 3 police officers come into our apartment
with a dude with in hand cuffs and they escorted into a police cruiser
hahaha!!! The officer who knocked on our door told us the situation and took
down my name and phone number just in case we would need to explain what
happened hahahaa......... the guy was running from the cops and hid in our back
porch!! what a night........ so freaking weird..... I'm safe don't worry and
there was no way he could come into the apartment the spirit made sure we had
the door locked
Anyway, that was pretty much it for the stories other than
an angry guy named Steve. He is a landlord where 3 of our potential
investigators live and he is a jerk........ always yelling at us not to knock
doors and stopping us every time he sees us hahah....... man, I don't like that
guy.... maybe we need to try and share the gospel with him......
hmmmmmmm....... I'm going to devise some plans ;)
Love you all!! I had an awesome week! I learned a lot and can't
wait for this coming week! We have zone conferences and MLC which means I get
to go see what's left of Santa Rosa......... that's going to rough..... love
you all!!
God is Good!
-Elder Riley Field
Some lady was walking her pig..... so, I pet it.... and fed
him Cheerios....
The police cruisers outside our apartment! haha crazy
mission memories!
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