Wow that's a crazy Sunday! Glad to hear that you're all alright.
As for the mattress cover... hmm I don't know. Maybe just wait til my next
area, which might not ever happen. I just emailed president and basically told
him to leave me in Dayton, Ohio for forever because I love it too much. :)
BOOO. That's too bad the Aggies lost. It's sad BYU lost too, haha.
Well shoot, what do I say about my life for the past 10 days?
Hmmm. Well transfers are this week but Elder Foote and I are staying put! We
will not leave Dayton until we baptize and help this branch grow! We refuse! So
ya know how I said there would be a curve ball in Heavenly Father's plans for
me? Well, it happened. The Spanish zone wasn't big enough to have Spanish
districts. So previously, Spanish missionaries were attending English district
meetings. So I've been District leader but I've had the comfort of doing it all
in English... until today. I was just called and now they're making a Spanish
district! Crap. Now I've really got to figure out what I'm doing. They're
also splitting our area! They called and asked me where to put the new elders,
hopefully the other elders will like it haha. But now our little branch of 30
will have 4 Spanish elders! FOUR. that's like 10 percent of the branch is
missionaries, I'm not sure what to think about it. It's kind of exciting but
it's also going to make the work a lot harder. Especially because we've just
started to have really good success in Dayton. We've found a couple promising
people and it will be super hard to give them up to the new coming elders.
Last week was rough, we didn't have a lot of teaching
appointments. The Torres family also didn't make it to the branch picnic we had
last Saturday. But we found an awesome new investigator that made all of last
week's frustrations worth it. Her name is Nereyda and she is a young mom with a
daughter that is obsessed with Dora the Explorer. We had an incredible
visit with her. We are super super excited for her. She is searching for truth
and peace (whether she knows it or not) and we've got the answers!!! We are
going to try and visit her again tonight!
What to say, what to say???
There are so many awesome experiences I'm having and I haven't
told you not even the hundredth part of them. Just know that Heavenly Father is
molding me into what he wants me to be. I don't like the way He does
it (about 5 days of humbling for every 2 days of outrageous
blessings) but He knows what He's doing and I've just got to trust him.
But I love it. Dayton is my little part of the vineyard to cultivate and I
never want to leave it!
Quick story then I got to go. I went on companion exchanges
with the English Elders (little weird because I had to do all the teaching
because the other Elder obviously couldn't communicate. All more the reason to
have a Spanish district.). But the other Elder said something cool. even though
he couldn't communicate he could feel the spirit in everything that was taught
and he could tell when I was teaching what part of the First Vision. It was
sweet! Just goes to show that it's really not about the words we say, it's all
about the Spirit! And what an awesome gift to have this constant companionship.
Always live worthy of and in harmony with the spirit.
This work is awesome and I'm happy as can be right now.
Glad you’re all safe. Love you tremendously. Sorry for the terrible grammar!!!
Love,
Elder Graf
