Hey gang! This week on #whatsmysnack we have Emergen-C! Lol I've been sick this past week so I've been pounding like 6 of these a day! It says they have 1000mg of vitamin C, and it's been kicking my cold so I'm all about that life! They don't taste half bad either!
So we had transfers on Tuesday, it was sad saying goodbye to elder Adams and President and Sister Griffin, sure am gonna miss them! But change is a good thing! I picked up my new companion, elder McDougal and we were back to Frankfort by noon! Elder McDougal is from Taylorsville Utah and likes to work hard, so we are gonna have a good 4 weeks! A little later that evening there was a pretty big storm, it was dumping buckets! Then all the tornado alarms started going off, so we waited it out in our car in an Ace Hardware parking lot! After the rain stopped we knocked a couple doors and one lady was like, "what are you doing out there? Don't you know there is a tornado?" I looked around in the sky and said, "oh really? I don't see it." She didn't like that and made us leave. Apparently there was a tornado that touched down in Manhattan, which is in our area, about 7 miles from where we were! The only damage was the roof of the post office got blown off, but that's it.
On Thursday we were working in the far west side of our area, which is technically Joliet. We were walking down a street and saw an older Hispanic man sitting under a tree in his front yard. He saw us approaching him and he waved and then pulled up two chairs next to him. We sat and talked to him, A, for a good hour! Such a sweet guy who genuinely wants to know the truth. We taught him briefly about a variety of different principles. He said missionaries have given him a book of mormon in the past but when he reads it he doesn't understand. We told him we would love to come read with him and explain things to him! He got really excited about that and so we will be going back this week!
The Highlight of the week was M. L.! He is a guy who was about to be baptised in April, but then kinda disappeared, a shattered heel was a big part of that. He reached back out to us and wants to get back into church! We met with him on Friday and had a great lesson. Unfortunately he is going to Wisconsin today and will be gone for two months. So he won't be baptised until the end of the summer. But he wants to do Skype lessons with us every week while he is away so that he can keep feeling the spirit! It was so cool, on Sunday he came to church and sat by us in his wheel chair. About halfway through fast and testimony meeting he leaned over to me and asked if he could do his testimony right from where we were. I told him if he wanted I would push him up to the pulpit! He thought about it for a sec then said yes! So I wheeled him up to the pulpit where he bore a powerful testimony about how much the gospel has changed and blessed his life! It was such a cool experience and reminder for me to see the affect that this great work has on people! Living the restored gospel of Jesus Christ will bring us more peace, joy, and comfort than we can ever imagine!
So we had transfers on Tuesday, it was sad saying goodbye to elder Adams and President and Sister Griffin, sure am gonna miss them! But change is a good thing! I picked up my new companion, elder McDougal and we were back to Frankfort by noon! Elder McDougal is from Taylorsville Utah and likes to work hard, so we are gonna have a good 4 weeks! A little later that evening there was a pretty big storm, it was dumping buckets! Then all the tornado alarms started going off, so we waited it out in our car in an Ace Hardware parking lot! After the rain stopped we knocked a couple doors and one lady was like, "what are you doing out there? Don't you know there is a tornado?" I looked around in the sky and said, "oh really? I don't see it." She didn't like that and made us leave. Apparently there was a tornado that touched down in Manhattan, which is in our area, about 7 miles from where we were! The only damage was the roof of the post office got blown off, but that's it.
On Thursday we were working in the far west side of our area, which is technically Joliet. We were walking down a street and saw an older Hispanic man sitting under a tree in his front yard. He saw us approaching him and he waved and then pulled up two chairs next to him. We sat and talked to him, A, for a good hour! Such a sweet guy who genuinely wants to know the truth. We taught him briefly about a variety of different principles. He said missionaries have given him a book of mormon in the past but when he reads it he doesn't understand. We told him we would love to come read with him and explain things to him! He got really excited about that and so we will be going back this week!
The Highlight of the week was M. L.! He is a guy who was about to be baptised in April, but then kinda disappeared, a shattered heel was a big part of that. He reached back out to us and wants to get back into church! We met with him on Friday and had a great lesson. Unfortunately he is going to Wisconsin today and will be gone for two months. So he won't be baptised until the end of the summer. But he wants to do Skype lessons with us every week while he is away so that he can keep feeling the spirit! It was so cool, on Sunday he came to church and sat by us in his wheel chair. About halfway through fast and testimony meeting he leaned over to me and asked if he could do his testimony right from where we were. I told him if he wanted I would push him up to the pulpit! He thought about it for a sec then said yes! So I wheeled him up to the pulpit where he bore a powerful testimony about how much the gospel has changed and blessed his life! It was such a cool experience and reminder for me to see the affect that this great work has on people! Living the restored gospel of Jesus Christ will bring us more peace, joy, and comfort than we can ever imagine!
Elder Thorpe
Here are some classic corn pics, Elder McDougal and "whatsmysnack" Emergen-C.
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