This week has been pretty slow. I haven't been feeling really good for
about half of the week, but we still got out and worked everyday. But
it was tough finding people home or people who would listen. I'm
excited for the Holidays to be over and for lives to get back to
normal. We did have an awesome experience on Monday night though. We
got a phone call from Cody, who is a member. Well him and Megan got
married on New Years Eve, and that's all that was keeping her from
being baptized. But we thought it would be a while before she got
baptized because he wanted to do it. Well he called Monday night and
asked when transfers was. I told him the 23rd. So he asked if Megan
could be baptized on the 22nd and that they really wanted me to do it
and that's why they wanted to do it then to make sure it was before I
get transferred just in case. So Megan will be baptized on the 22nd.
We are praying that Cody will be able to do it, but if not I was pretty
excited that they really wanted me to do it. So that will be a very
exciting day. She has been coming to church pretty much since last
April. That was for sure the highlight of the week. New Years was
fun. We went to dinner to Red Robbin as a district then we went and
watched The Other Side of Heaven. And that was about it.
Last Tuesday we had quite the experience. We were going with the other
Elders into there area to go help them do service at a none members
house. This guy has a daughter who is a member and he just had a crazy
surgery and lives clear up on the mountains where there is no power or
running water and it snows a lot. It's like a 45 minute drive for us.
Well his truck was having problems so that's why they took me. Well
anyways we got off the main road and onto this dirt road to go to there
house. Well it was pretty much just ice packed. Well Elder Mudrow was
driving, and he came to a corner and the car didn't want to slow down
so it went straight into a huge snow bank. So that was pretty fun
other than the car got high centered. So we tried getting it out and
couldn't do it. So we figured we would go fix the guys truck then he
could come pull us out. So we got to his house and I was able to fix
his truck so he could pull us out. So he got us out and then Elder
Mudrow realized that he had lost his phone. So they guy took him back
to look for it and he couldn't find it so we just left. We got back
and he used our phone to call the mission office to tell them what
happened. They told him it would cost him $300. So the next day we
called Brother Pedersen to take us back up to search for the phone. So
after the really long drive we got up there and started looking and
said a prayer. Well we didn't find it. So then we went to another
place where it could be and there it was burried in the snow. So
prayer works! Then on the way down the montain we stopped off the main
road to look at the view. Well Elder Mudrow fell down. So jokingly
Sister Pedersen asked him if he had the phone and he said yes. Well we
got home and he realized he didn't have it. So he had to drive back up
the mountain and find it again where he fell. But he found it and it
works! So he didn't have to pay for it. That's my crazy expereience
of the week.
So that's it for this week. Hopefully I will have a more interesting
week now. I love you all so much. I'm so grateful for Joseph Smith
and all of the faith he had and all that he went through so that we
could have the true and restored church here today. That right there
shows it's the true church. No one would go through what he did for
nothing! I know that he saw God and Jesus Christ. I know that he
translated The Book of Mormon by the power of God. And I know that The
Book of Mormon is true! I love you all and have a great week.
Love Elder Schvaneveldt
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