Down in the hood things get weird and small miracles

So this past week was an alright week. On Monday we went to the driving range and one of the elders taught me how to swing and I hit a couple good ones. I like golf, but ya Monday night was alright we ended up having a lesson with one of our investigators Adam and Adam claims to be a satanist, but he isn't a hard core one. He has been meeting with the missionaries for a while so the point of the lesson was to drop him because his wife is super against us. Like she would delete our number out of his phone and we can only comes when she leaves for work. Ya but he likes to read the Book of Mormon, but refuses to pray and he knows that is why he doesn't have answers of what truth is, but ya in the end I just bore testimony on how we need to do it and how it will bless us and we left and we wont see him very much any more. We are here to teach and baptize those that are ready and he just isn't ready right now

Ya on Tuesday it was wet we were at the food shelf doing Service and right when it was time to leave it stated to rain so we waited a few minutes, but it wasn't letting up so we biked home and after lunch it stopped for a bit, but then it picked up again after we did some stop bys. it started so we found cover at a park, but there were these two drunk people there so we left while it was still raining and then it started to lightning and we went to the church and did some planning because it wasn't safe to bike around and ya then later that night we were biking around again and got soaked and ya we got lost so we got pretty wet but it was good. Wednesday was a good day the highlight was we had a dinner with a family called the Woodward family and we had a really good message with them about Christ being the light of the world and how when we follow Jesus Christ we become the light and we were committing them to pray as a family and find someone to give a Book of Mormon to and then Sister Woodward had a name come to her mind right away of their new backdoor neighbors and I know that was the spirit that brought that name to her mind so they committed to give it to them within two weeks and it was great. Super awesome it could lead to a great referral so we are praying for it. It is awesome! 

Thursday I had a cool spiritual experience as well so we had been having a good day and then we were tracting a street and we were talking to someone and the phone was buzzing and after we were done I looked at and it was the sisters and they were calling because Sister Frank wanted a blessing because she was having super bad exhaustion like not just regular exhaustion form working out, but constantly kinda zoning out and mumbling and not realizing it so she asked us to give her a blessing and my companion anointed and and I did the blessing and it was cool I could tell the spirit was telling me what to say. I was saying what God knew that Sister Frank needed to hear and it was just cool and there is something in my patriarchal blessing about seeing people recover through my use of the Melchizedek Priesthood and she has been a lot better so it is just cool to see the priesthood is real! 

But ya Friday night the crazy stuff happened so that night we were biking down the street and then this random lady was waving at us and blowing kisses at us and then we pass her and they are on another street and then we passed this guy on the other side of the street he just said did you get asked to leave and we said no..... And then he said are you the police and we said no and then he started going off about how we would fight me if we came to his mom's house and ya I have no idea what he was doing. He was drunk so we just kept going and ya then we were sitting in a parking lot and we see this car just hop a curb and drive across this grass and ya then park and then further out in the parking lot there was another car just driving around with his hood up it was a crazy night so ya! Crazy stuff and on Friday we had this appt. fall through and we were unlocking our bikes and this lady walked out of a house and walked up and she is member of a neighboring ward and she said she was a PCA for this lady and she was asking questions about the church and she wanted us to visit the lady and ya so that was a miracle. Ya we won't be seeing her the sisters will be, but it was an awesome thing!  

Saturday was cool we had a elders quorum pinewood derby and so ya I will send a picture of our car it was fun. Sunday we had the stake presidency in the ward because they were changing up our Bishopric. Our bishop is moving to Utah so we have a new bishopric and ya it was a cool Sunday, but it was a good week this week and from my studies In Mosiah 24:15 it says this "15 And now it came to pass that the burdens which were laid upon Alma and his brethren were made light; yea, the Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord." And this is when hey are in bondage and they cant bear up their burdens without the Lords help and it just shows the enabling power of the Atonement and how when we have trials that the Lord won't just take our trials from us, but we need to pray for strength and then he will bless us with the strength to over come anything he will make it so we can do all that he needs us to do in this life. Christ suffered not just for our sins, but he suffered so that we can have strength to overcome all the hard things that happen in this life! So always pray for strength to do hard things and then it will happen! I am extremely grateful for my Savior and I love him!
Have a great week
Love
Elder Howe