I’m going to
go a little backwards this week and start with yesterday and today. Nothing
cool has happened with missionary work but the weather has been insane!! It
snowed all day yesterday. It came to about a foot of snow which really isn’t
that much but out here that’s a ton! They don’t really plow the roads so pretty
much everyone just slides around and almost dies all day. The whole mission
parked their cars and only 3 wards had church. They were the very southern
wards in the mission so it was more just rain down there.
This morning
we got outside to try to dig out our car and it was under about 3 feet of snow
because the wind decided to wreck our car with snow. It took us about 30
minutes to dig our car out. Oh ya and its -8 degrees. Elder Wunderli had a
water bottle in his coat pocket and by time we finished digging out car out the
water bottle had frozen in his pocket. In Champaign, the more northern part of
our mission, the high today is -12. It’s going to be a pretty cold day. We
finally got out and headed over to the sisters apartment to dig their car out
and the roads were frozen. We have just been running and sliding around on the
roads all day cause it’s so frozen. It’s been fun.
The rest of
this week has been pretty fun too. We went on a couple exchanges. I was up in
Springfield with Elder Boren and in Champaign with Elder Francis. It was a good
couple days. We had a lot of success and I always love exchanges cause miracles
always happen. It was kinda hard to say goodbye to those elders cause I knew it
was the last time I was going to see them. All 4 of them, especially Elder
Norton who I lived with for 4 1/2 months, are some of my closest friends. But
it was great to get to spend a little bit of time with them for the last time.
Once I got
back to St Louis Hills, me and Elder Wunderli had some good success. Saturday we
found 3 new investigators and 2 of them planned on coming to sacrament meetings
(before it got canceled). We found a 21
year old girl with the cutest 5 month year old baby I have ever seen. She has
had a super rough past but has pulled it together and has a job and is going to
school now. I can’t believe that she is the same age as me and has gone through
so much in her life. I don’t even know how she is holding herself together. She
is great though and has been to church in different places in the past. She
seems ready to get baptized. Hopefully we will be setting a date with her this
week on Wednesday and she will probably get baptized the week after I leave.
That would be great to see her make that change.
It has been
so amazing to see the changes that have been taking place in the people that we
are teaching. I love talking to them and seeing how much the gospel changes
them. It makes them so much happier! I am so thankful for the knowledge of this
gospel and the blessing it is to have it in my life and to get to share it with
other. I’m looking forward to these next couple weeks and getting to share this
message.
-Elder Banks
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