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| Airsoft with Chantz |
We had
some amazing miracles happen this week. Chantz is doing great! We had a lesson
with him and he still wants to be baptized and his mom is totally fine with it.
We are having dinner with their family and with his grandma on Saturday so
hopefully we'll start teaching her too! The other Elders actually met his
mom while they were tracting, and she told them how much we meant to Chantz and how much our lessons and friendship were helping him. We
talked with Chantz and with his grandma about the best time for his baptism and
we all agreed that it would be best to wait until after they return from their Thanksgiving
vacation. If we wait, we can prepare him
more fully. So, most likely Chantz is going to be baptized on December 6th, and lucky for us that is the Saturday before transfers.
Chantz is
really into airsoft, and he's been asking us a lot lately if we’ll play with
him. Unfortunately, every time he wants
to play we don’t have time because we're always running to one place or the
other. On Wednesday we had an appointment with him at 4:30 and our 5:15
appointment cancelled, so when he asked us if we'd play with him I thought to myself, "What the
heck. You gotta have some fun right? If I were 11 and these guys never played
with me I wouldn't like them at all!" So we played airsoft with him. Ha! Ha!
All my friends can tell you from past experiences that I am terrible at
airsoft! So of course, I was out first. Even so, it was so much fun.
We had
such a cool thing happen with Robin this week. Hopefully I can explain it well
enough so you can see how amazing it was, but my emails can never do my
experiences any justice. Sometimes you just have to be there. Well, Robin and
her non-member sister, Renae, and her nephew, James (12), came to our
trunk-or-treat at the ward last Wednesday, but she wasn't able to come to
church on Sunday. We taught her on Tuesday and to our surprise we
learned that Renae was quite against the church and was saying some negative
things about it and how she didn't want her son James to go to church with
Robin. We were really surprised because Renae seemed to have a great time
at the trunk-or-treat and didn't appear to be negative about the church at all.
So, we helped Robin practice what she could say to Renae so she
wouldn’t be so negative about the church.
Then, we went back on Saturday night and learned that Robin’s
conversation had gone well and Renae agreed that she was being ridiculous. So, yesterday
Robin came to church for the first time in eight years! It was so awesome to
see her there because Satan did EVERYTHING he could to stop
her. Every time she's been reading the Book of Mormon something happens,
and she even got really sick and started throwing up this week, and THEN
Renae hit a deer with her car. But, Robin still came to church. We
promised her over and over that she would see blessings for it.
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Well,
church was great and afterward we got a call from Robin who apparently went straight
from church to visit Renae. Apparently, Robin found Renae pretty down on
herself. She is in a rough place in life and is about to lose her home, and
she asked Robin where she could get a "recipe for happiness in
life." Robin said, "I know just the boys you need to talk
to!" Renae responded, "Yes. I knew you were going to say the
Elders could help me and I've actually been thinking about that. For some
reason I feel like God is pushing me toward them. I would love to meet
with them on Tuesday night when I'm off work." While telling us this
story, Robin was almost in tears. It was awesome! I was so happy that
Robin had this experience because she saw immediate blessings from attending church. That's what being a missionary is all about: watching God work
miracles in people's lives. I'm just grateful to be a part of His work and
His miracles every day!
Well, I
love each of you and I'm grateful for everything you do for me. I was thinking
the other day about how Emily has taken my spot at all of the Utah football games,
and I was wondering what is going to happen when I get home. I came to the
conclusion that Nathan needs to get ready to serve a mission so I'll just take
his spot next season and I'll go with Emily and Dad! Let me know what you guys
think about that plan.
Love y'all!!
Elder Roderick
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