Hey gang! This week on #whatsmysnack I was on exchanges in Morgan Park with elder Crowley and he showed me a very different way to do oatmeal! He heated up apple juice on the stove, then once it was nice and hot he poured it in a bowl over some raw oats and sprinkled some salt on top! I was pretty skeptical, not gonna lie to ya, but it was actually pretty good! I never knew there were other ways to make oatmeal but there's more than one way to skin a cat, so it makes sense!
It has been pretty stressful this week trying to get all of the details for the baptism all worked out. Dang it sure is tough trying to coordinate with 4 Nigerian families who all work crazy hours in factories, but the Lord definitely has his hand in this! We had been anxiously waiting to hear if Ibukunolu (the father of the Opadele family) would be able to get work of for the baptism. On Wednesday he asked his boss but of course she told him she would get back to him on Friday, so we were pulling our hair out waiting to hear if he and the family would even be able to get baptised on September 1st. But "by the grace of God" (as the Nigerians always say) she gave him the day off! Many prayers were answered when we found that out! So the Mega tism is still on for September 1st!! It's gonna be a lot of work still getting all of their interviews set up and and all the details but Elder Noble and I are giddy over here, like two kids on Christmas eve! September 1st is going to be a day we will never forget!
As we have been planning this baptism we realized that after September 1st, our teaching pool is going to be pretty much depleted. So on Tuesday we were looking through former investigators on area book to see if there was anyone who had potential to be taught. We came across a Nigerian guy named Arnaud, and of course we saw that he was Nigerian so we figured he would have potential! We felt very strongly that we needed to call him, so we did! We set up a lesson with him for Wednesday and it went super well, he asked us to come back on Friday. The lesson on Friday was also amazing and so he asked us to come back on saturday! On Saturday we invited him to be baptised on September 29th and he accepted!! He also wants us to teach his God father now too!! The Lord sure is working mighty miracles and I thank God every day that I get to be here in Hyde Park to be apart of it!
It has been pretty stressful this week trying to get all of the details for the baptism all worked out. Dang it sure is tough trying to coordinate with 4 Nigerian families who all work crazy hours in factories, but the Lord definitely has his hand in this! We had been anxiously waiting to hear if Ibukunolu (the father of the Opadele family) would be able to get work of for the baptism. On Wednesday he asked his boss but of course she told him she would get back to him on Friday, so we were pulling our hair out waiting to hear if he and the family would even be able to get baptised on September 1st. But "by the grace of God" (as the Nigerians always say) she gave him the day off! Many prayers were answered when we found that out! So the Mega tism is still on for September 1st!! It's gonna be a lot of work still getting all of their interviews set up and and all the details but Elder Noble and I are giddy over here, like two kids on Christmas eve! September 1st is going to be a day we will never forget!
As we have been planning this baptism we realized that after September 1st, our teaching pool is going to be pretty much depleted. So on Tuesday we were looking through former investigators on area book to see if there was anyone who had potential to be taught. We came across a Nigerian guy named Arnaud, and of course we saw that he was Nigerian so we figured he would have potential! We felt very strongly that we needed to call him, so we did! We set up a lesson with him for Wednesday and it went super well, he asked us to come back on Friday. The lesson on Friday was also amazing and so he asked us to come back on saturday! On Saturday we invited him to be baptised on September 29th and he accepted!! He also wants us to teach his God father now too!! The Lord sure is working mighty miracles and I thank God every day that I get to be here in Hyde Park to be apart of it!
Elder Thorpe
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