Hey gang! This week on #whatsmysnack we have... Corn??? I didn't eat any corn!?! Just kidding, totally ate some corn this week, and a lot of it! What can you expect when they have deals on corn that is 10 ears for $1? So yeah, we bought 20 ears of corn and had it with every meal. Some nights we'd grill it and some nights we'd boil it, either way it was some tasty stuff!
What a great week it was in Frankfort! On Tuesday morning we got to go to seminary and we hosted their book of mormon Jeapordy, because it was their last day. Man, early morning seminary is something else, major props to everyone who does early morning seminary. Such a good time with our youth too, we have some real solid youth in the Branch! Funny story, Tuesday evening we got a call from Elder Ethington, the vehicle coordinator, and he told us Ford had some recall and we needed to take our car to the dealership as soon as possible. So first thing Wednesday morning we took it in. They told us it would be about 45 minutes so we could just wait in their waiting room. We walk in this waiting room and sit down and in the room is this big screen TV. I glance up at it and I see the one and only Matt Ollerton!! Hahah it was playing the episode of Pawn Stars that he was in! Elder Adams didn't believe that I actually knew him until it interviewed him and showed his name. We then shared some laughs as I told him some of the funny things he'd say as he announced the football games, what a guy! But man what are the odds?!
We did a good amount of service this week. We did our weekly service at the Frankfort food pantry which was a good time moving a bunch of donated food. The sweetest old ladies work there, and on our lunch break we sat and talked for a bit about what we do as missionaries, who knows maybe something will come from it. We also helped a member pull out a fence in their yard. This poor family has had some really crappy luck. Last August the breaks went out on the dad's work truck and he got in a pretty serious accident and the nerves in his shoulder got messed up so he can't really move his left arm and he's always in a ton of pain. The mom had double hip replacement surgery 3 months ago and she is only in her 30s! So we were super grateful to help them out, they are such a great family and keep a happy positive attitude through their trials.
We met with our friend L, who knocked on the church for family history help. We introduced him to the branch family history consultants and they did a lot of good work! When he finished and was starting to leave we got talking a little more about the church and a little about pioneers. L then said to us, "Man, Mormons are such great people! I wish I could be one!" Elder Adams and I looked at each other just to confirm that we both heard him correctly and we weren't hallucinating. We introduced the book of mormon to him but unfortunately we didn't have any more in the car and the key to the library broke earlier that week so we didn't have one for him. He also lives in the Chicago mission boundaries so we will be sending him over to them, kind of a bummer, but it's all the Lord's work!
While L was doing his family history work with the FHC, elder Adams and I read up on some of our ancestors. It was so cool to read a little bit of the conversion stories of my ancestors back in the 1800s. I read about a lot of them but one thing stood out to me. I can't remember who I was reading about or the whole story, but it talked about how after he joined the church (in the early days of the church) he was called upon to give a man a priesthood blessing. He did and a miracle was performed saving this man's life. The man was then converted to the church because of said miracle, but later left the church. The biography then said, "thus we see ones faith must be founded on something other than miracles." Oh how true that is! Just like Alma the Younger says in Alma 5:45-46, the way that we must know the truthfulness of the gospel is through fasting and prayer, then it will be made known unto us by the Holy Spirit of God! Personal revelation is so important! Just like President Nelson said, "We must all seek daily our own personal revelation if we are going to get by in todays world!"
What a great week it was in Frankfort! On Tuesday morning we got to go to seminary and we hosted their book of mormon Jeapordy, because it was their last day. Man, early morning seminary is something else, major props to everyone who does early morning seminary. Such a good time with our youth too, we have some real solid youth in the Branch! Funny story, Tuesday evening we got a call from Elder Ethington, the vehicle coordinator, and he told us Ford had some recall and we needed to take our car to the dealership as soon as possible. So first thing Wednesday morning we took it in. They told us it would be about 45 minutes so we could just wait in their waiting room. We walk in this waiting room and sit down and in the room is this big screen TV. I glance up at it and I see the one and only Matt Ollerton!! Hahah it was playing the episode of Pawn Stars that he was in! Elder Adams didn't believe that I actually knew him until it interviewed him and showed his name. We then shared some laughs as I told him some of the funny things he'd say as he announced the football games, what a guy! But man what are the odds?!
We did a good amount of service this week. We did our weekly service at the Frankfort food pantry which was a good time moving a bunch of donated food. The sweetest old ladies work there, and on our lunch break we sat and talked for a bit about what we do as missionaries, who knows maybe something will come from it. We also helped a member pull out a fence in their yard. This poor family has had some really crappy luck. Last August the breaks went out on the dad's work truck and he got in a pretty serious accident and the nerves in his shoulder got messed up so he can't really move his left arm and he's always in a ton of pain. The mom had double hip replacement surgery 3 months ago and she is only in her 30s! So we were super grateful to help them out, they are such a great family and keep a happy positive attitude through their trials.
We met with our friend L, who knocked on the church for family history help. We introduced him to the branch family history consultants and they did a lot of good work! When he finished and was starting to leave we got talking a little more about the church and a little about pioneers. L then said to us, "Man, Mormons are such great people! I wish I could be one!" Elder Adams and I looked at each other just to confirm that we both heard him correctly and we weren't hallucinating. We introduced the book of mormon to him but unfortunately we didn't have any more in the car and the key to the library broke earlier that week so we didn't have one for him. He also lives in the Chicago mission boundaries so we will be sending him over to them, kind of a bummer, but it's all the Lord's work!
While L was doing his family history work with the FHC, elder Adams and I read up on some of our ancestors. It was so cool to read a little bit of the conversion stories of my ancestors back in the 1800s. I read about a lot of them but one thing stood out to me. I can't remember who I was reading about or the whole story, but it talked about how after he joined the church (in the early days of the church) he was called upon to give a man a priesthood blessing. He did and a miracle was performed saving this man's life. The man was then converted to the church because of said miracle, but later left the church. The biography then said, "thus we see ones faith must be founded on something other than miracles." Oh how true that is! Just like Alma the Younger says in Alma 5:45-46, the way that we must know the truthfulness of the gospel is through fasting and prayer, then it will be made known unto us by the Holy Spirit of God! Personal revelation is so important! Just like President Nelson said, "We must all seek daily our own personal revelation if we are going to get by in todays world!"
Love y'all, have a great week!
Elder Thorpe
