Week 81

Our ride the last few month. RIP-Helga!

                                              

                                                            Our sweet new ride!

Trash from the Trenton Apartment

Elder Heaton and I

  Another great and busy week here as an office Elder.  Earlier on in the week we went on a trip to take some furniture to a few missionaries.  The next morning we got ready for our big trip to Trenton Tennessee which is about 3 hours y 45 minutes away from the mission office. Luckily the morning before we left, the new transfer van came in!!  It is way nice, and a lot roomier.  So that was pretty sweet, and I got to put the first 500 miles on it.  Our trip entailed closing an apartment in Trenton (which was absolutely filthy,) and as well doing other deliveries around Memphis.  That was an awesome trip especially because Elders Heaton y Doty were able to come with the three of us, because they needed a ride to Jackson to do exchanges with the Spanish Elders.

   One of our Senior missionaries Sister Nicosia was having some really big medical problems this week, so they had to unexpectedly end their mission this week.  They were so awesome and a huge help to the office, it was sad to see them go.  So we might be a lot busier here in the next couple of weeks.  

   Even amongst the really long trip to Memphis for a couple days, and all the other stuff we had going on we were able to see Hunter this week.  We had an awesome lesson with them about the commandments y a member was able to come with us. He said he was for sure coming on Sunday, but then Sunday morning we texted him y he was sick. He told us that he "popped the question, and she said yes",  so now him and his girlfriend are engaged!  That was a huge tender mercy, and that will help him to be able to progress a lot quicker towards baptism and receiving those blessings.   

   The rest of Sunday was an awesome day as well!  We had Ward conference which went super well, and one of the members Bro Toeppe who just moved in told a sweet story.  He had never been to conference so one year him y his recently converted wife went y were outside the conference center asking for tickets. There was a guy who was making fun of them, and yelling all sorts of things at them.  He said he felt really annoyed at this guy, and wanted to say some stuff back.  He then felt that he needed to pray that the man yelling would some day be able to hear the gospel ,and his heart would be softened.  Long story short, while Bro Toeppe was Bshop in Ohio a guy walks into the church after his child had just died, y they wanted him to direct the funeral.  Bro Toeppe said he would, but asked him if he was the guy that was yelling at him years ago in SLC.  The guy said yes, and Bro Toeppe told him what he had done that day.  He said he never thought the Lord would send him to his own Ward to be taught.  He was part of the teaching process, and soon after the man was baptized!  Pretty amazing story, Truly shows that the spirit can work miracles in anyone.  

   Later on Sunday afternoon we had several teaching appointments, and we taught this lady named Latoya.  She had  read all the way to Chapter 7 after we had given her a BOM the last time we met here.  We had a great lesson, and during the middle of it she had a seizure which was pretty crazy!  She has epilepsy or something, b Right after  she got back up, and read the verse that we had asked her to read!   So great week overall, and the work is going well!  

Hope y'all had a great week, thank you for all the love y prayers!  

Con Amor,

Elder Geddes