Hey everyone!
Once again I would like to thank all those that took the time to shoot me a message with words of affirmation and love. I think giving the gift of our time means alot.. we really don't have a whole lot of it! We had a pretty solid week with alot of things that I honestly cant believe. Lots of miracles. One that I will share is about this couple that was staying on the property of some members in Sweet. They purchased this 5th wheel from them, and planned to travel to the Oregon coast until suddenly the husband had pretty serious and sudden health scare. This sent him to the hospital and we ended up giving him a priesthood blessing. He recovered and was able to return to the 5th wheel; however, not much long after he had a repeat of his health issue and was sent back to the hospital. After praying and fasting for him he recovered and didn't need to go on hospice any more but they decided to move to Emmett and sell the 5th wheel because that dream was most likely not possible anymore. Through all of this we have built a relationship with them and It seemed like it was getting closer to inviting them to hear the gospel. But when they left Sweet we didn't know where they went and I was pretty disappointed we lost that chance. Fast forward to this past Tuesday. The thought came to me to go into one of the missionaries areas in Emmett to help them get somethings going. Our original plan was to tract out this street for them, and if we had time we would go to some other trail parks that the missionaries in Emmett had picked out. We were running behind and we decided to take a different road to Emmett from Horshoebend so we ended up coming closer to one of these trailer parks. So Instead of going to our original street we went to this trail park... missed the first turn in by accident and then took the second turn and parked the car alittle ways down the road. I looked over and saw a green rodeo Izuzu which is one of the cars i drove back home and it was the same color as my friend (Lono's) rodeo. The thought came to my mind," hey you should knock on that door because there is a rodeo in the driveway." SO we did. and this was the first house to answer the door that day. and to my surprise it was the couple that was staying in the 5th wheel in Sweet!! It was pretty crazy! of all the places I could be, or park the car, or gone tracting we ran right into them. I can testify that God does have a plan... And its pretty awesome!
We had a similar experience on Wednesday. We were up in Garden Valley. And we had lined up some service for one of our investigators and then another one for the community theater. While we were headed out to our first service appointment I noticed a man laying rocks outside. I had the thought," when we get back we should ask them if they would like some help laying some rock" So we do our thing and get all our service done and we get back to the place we were staying and sure enough the man was still there. We went up and said we would like to help him, and ended up having a really great conversation about God with him. We didnt have a ton of time but we laid some rocks for him for about 45 min. We ran back into our members home in Garden Valley and got into proselyting clothes and went back out to make a few more contacts before dinner. Right before we were leaving Garden Valley to head back to Horshoebend the lady of the house we were laying rocks for stopped us and told us that she heard that we helped lay some rocks for her and she was very appreciative. She then asked if we could give her Dad a priesthood blessing, because her husband received one from the missionaries a year ago and she recognized how much of a impact that had. So we were able to give her 93 year old father a priesthood blessing.
I find it incredible what happens when we try to do what the Lord would have us do. I have come to learn that he speaks directly to us in the way that only we would listen. As we follow on the impressions we receive we will find much joy in knowing that we did exactly what the Lord would want us to do. Just like President Monson we too can say.. "I think we have done some good today!" - Keep Smiling, Elder Gerrard
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