Hello Everyone!
There is a story I forgot to tell you last week. When Michael was pre-baptised, he was at the Elders Quorum President's house and he saw a picture on the wall that he really loved. It was a picture of Christ reaching into the water picking up Peter. He loved it so much he took a picture of it on his phone and looked at it whenever he was having a hard time. His phone glitched and he lost everything on it so he did not have the picture anymore. We were at a members house with post-baptized Michael, and they wanted to give him a gift. It was the same exact photo he saw before. He loved it so much. He was always so sad because he saw a lot of pictures of family and gospel art hanging on the wall at member's homes, and he wanted that too. Now he has his favorite picture hanging on the wall. His Aaronic Priesthood Certifcate is hanging on the wall right next to it.
Last week we had family home evening at the Stake Presidents house with a mom and daughter we have been working with. It was probably one of the most intersting group of personalities I have ever experienced, but yet, they mixed so well. It was a wonderful evening. President Sakai is awesome. At the end of Family Home Evening, President Sakai asked us and Michael to come into his office. There, he asked Michael if he would be willing to speak in Stake Conference. Michael agreed. Michael is so awesome, he was so excited to speak even if there were 1400 people watching him.
Sadly, Michael got really sick so he was not able to speak. He got bit by a tick a couple of weeks ago, and it developed into Lyme Disease. We hope he will be okay. There is a point in the development of Lyme disease, where if you catch it soon enough, you can easily stop it by taking some antibiotics. He is on them now and will be taking them for 30 days, we are in frequent contact with him to see how he is doing.
Oddly enough, we got the call from Michael telling us he has Lyme disease while we were at the urgent care. Why were we at the urgent care you may ask? Well, because weeks ago I got bit by a tick. I pulled it out and thought all is well, but just a couple of days ago I started to develop the rash, which is a rash that shows up when the tick that bites you was carrying the Lyme Disease. Ever since I got my tick bite, I have been joking with my companion that I think I have the bullseye rash, so when I actually saw it and said I think I have the bullseye rash, he was like "oh shush!!" Then I showed him and his face was priceless. So we drove to the urgent care and I was put on an antibiotic for 10 days. I will be totally fine, I caught it very soon. Me and Michael are in the same boat, except his case is worse.
Every month they have a fireside at the temple visitors center called "Why I Believe" with two guest speakers, two recent convert testimonies and other spirit filled things. This week was Why I Believe and my good friend Ian Somerville who was baptised in Olney (my last area) was going to bare his testimony. I was super excited to go, and we had a lot of investigators who were going too. We had to find a lot of investigators rides up to the visitor's center. While we found rides for all of our investigators, we forgot to find rides for us. We are not allowed to drive up ourselves, members have to drive us up. Well, with 50 minutes before it started and an hour and 20-minute drive to get to the visitor center, we get a call from Chris, who is a recently reactivated member who said he could give us a ride up. We said, "Yes please." We were waiting at the church building for him to pick us up, and we heard a loud car revving its engine around the corner. Chris comes around the corner with his sports car and says let's go. We hop in and... let's just say we made it on time for me to hear Ian's testimony.
This week we signed up to be Clergymen at the local Hospital. We talked to Reverand Alice ( The person in charge) and we are all set. Now, we will visit everyone in the hospital who signs up for spiritual support and would like a visit with us. We start this Wednesday and will do it every Wednesday for a couple of weeks. Plus, we get a free hospital meal each time we go.
This week we had a 70 visit us, Elder Corbridge. He talked a lot about the why of what we are doing and having us help our investigators to know the same. The biggest take away for me was how important receiving personal revelation is in our lives, and how Heavenly Father will tell us through the Holy Ghost the path we should take, but you first need to seek, then have faith and listen, then follow through, and report back to our Father in Heaven. On the way back from Elder Corbridge's visit, our car got in a little tussle with another car, our car and another car swiped sides. All is well, the man was very nice, minimal damage.
I am not sure why I am so scared to send this E-mail. I only got Lyme Disease this week, got in one car accident, and went 100 miles an hour down the beltway to the visitors center. Well, I will talk to you next week... Hopefully.
Elder Dallin Spurgeon
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