Oh that is great that you went out to lunch with Marce! And it is so
true that President Woodbury looks so deep! I feel like every time I talk with
him he knows exactly what is going on in my mind! He is perfect to be a mission
president because he is so in tune with the spirit!
I am sorry about grandpa. That break looks terrible. So Bobby
was just up there then and had to carry him out to the car? But that is good
that you are all taking time and spending it with grandma and are taking care
of her.
The whole baseball thing is crazy.. but I will for sure play
softball with all of my friends back at home because I miss playing so much! I
took for granted just going to the field and taking batting practice and ground
balls, I would love to be able to do it again.
And with the Wallace's, are they going to the same mission as
Kristy? That is amazing that they get to go all of the way out to New Zealand!
That would be such a sweet mission but it doesn't compare to Chicago :)
This week has had some pretty funny things happen though. On
Thursday we were coming home from the church and we were on the train and there
were these three guys standing across from me and one of them had two bottles
of tequila in his pocket and two glasses. Then one of the guys next to
him was standing there just staring at my name tag. I was like oh you are
staring at my name tag, I am actually a missionary of the church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints and then the guy with the two bottles is like Oh I
have heard of them before. So basically Joseph Smith was a giant conman and he
tricked all of these people and then he was lynched and martyred. This
kind of hurt me that he was saying things. I just pulled out a Book of Mormon
and was like if you want to know these things for yourself and know these
things are true and not just hear the words that this man is speaking, then I
invite you to read this Book and bore my testimony. It was my stop of the bus
so I just bore my testimony of the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith and offered
them the Book. They denied it of course but it was the best I could do. It
sucked to be shut down by someone who just made up random stuff but I did the best I could and it doesn't
change my testimony!
I love talking to the Spanish people so much more because
they are much more willing to listen! Then the next day we were talking to this
lady and we were just like oh how is it going and asking questions about the
weather. Hadn't said anything about the church at this point and then she was
like why are you asking so many questions? We were like oh we are actually
missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and she was
like NO NO NO and then I was like okay we just want to be your friend and she cut
me off and was like I SAID NO and then like ran off to the other side of the
bus stop. I thought it was so funny that she ran away and all we were trying to
do was be friendly.
Something great that happened was this week we put Jesus on date for
the first of March! He has been taught all of the lessons and wants to get
baptized but he just didn't know when. A few days before President
Woodbury had spoken about the importance of praying with faith and having our
investigators pray so we asked him about how his prayers had been. He said he
hadn't really been and so we invited him to pray about the first (because he
has the desire to be baptized). Then yesterday we were with him at stake
conference, which he invited a friend to, and one of the other Elders in our
district was like oh Jesus we are excited for your baptism on the first and he
just got the biggest smile and was like yep the first! I was so happy because he just confirmed his date for
baptism! It was a huge miracle!
Last pday we ended up going bowling and it cost 4 dollars for 3
games and shoes and I got a turkey!!!! It was the first time in my life and I
was so happy!
I am going to send some stuff home though probably next week. But I hope you have a great week and that everything is going well with Grandma and Grandpa!
[Elder Eichers bowling with the alias of "Lloyd." Lloyd got a turkey!]
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