Happy Birthday To Me!

​When the bowling alley ACTUALLY works
(feat. Elder Foster)​

Hello everyone! Another early email! The work continues pretty much the same as always, here's a couple of the highlights from the week.

Around the middle of the week we got a call from the mission office. A member in some other state had referred her dad that is not a member and had entered into one of the hospitals in our area. She asked us to give him a priesthood blessing. Apparently he was getting treated for cancer and then fell and hit his head in the hospital and suffered some brain injuries. We got there at the same time as some family members and gave him the blessing. After that we talked to the family a little bit and then left and went on with our day. The next day the mission office called us back with an update. Apparently 15 minutes after we left the doctors were asking him questions. He was able to remember questions that he hadn't been able to answer before. The family was very grateful, but still not quite open to receiving the missionaries yet. There's a few things we can learn from this story; 1) that priesthood power is real 2) seeing miracles is not enough to make someone believe.

​My "chicken pot pie" birthday dinner! ;)

So none of our people came to church, so that was a little disappointing, but there was one person that showed up! She was referred by our Bishop because she has a son or someone that's a bishop in another state. Our Bishop was out of town this week but she still came for sacrament meeting! We're going to talk to her more later today. She said she would be interested in learning more and being baptized! She accepted a date for the 17th, so hopefully all goes well with her! Other than that we weren't able to get in contact with Tanya or any of our other investigators so we'll see how that goes too.

I feel like before my mission I was WAY less interested in family history, haha, now it's like one of my favorite things. I've been using Ancestry.com almost exclusively for a bit, I like the hints on it better. You can link Ancestry and Family Search and move stuff between the two so that's pretty handy too. Really the goal should be to have everything in family search since that has the ordinance information, but ancestry is an awesome tool and since we already have so much work done on it, it makes it really easy to transfer over. Super cool stuff!

That's pretty much everything, other than the fact the my birthday is tomorrow! Probably not going to do much different, but I bought myself some "chicken pot pie" today for a birthday dinner. You'll see what I mean in the picture. It's crazy that I'm 19 now, I still feel like a little high school kid haha. It also means I'm a week away from 9 months as a missionary! It's weird to think that I've been in Florida for 7 months now too, it doesn't feel like that long. Time's going to fly by! Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers!

Lanmou,

Eldè Stevenson

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