Howdy everyone!
So. This week has truly been a blessed one.
To begin with, funny story for smiles are good things.
I
knew that Sister Cox hadn't been sleeping well for the past couple of
months. I've been doing a lot of thinking on it just on how I could
possibly help and I was praying Saturday night when I realized that it
was probably because of the stress that she's been feeling from me as a
companion and how she feels like I am judging her....on and on. The mind
went into hyper-drive. She was in the shower and I went in there to
brush my teeth and felt like crying. "Sister Cox, I now know why you
haven't slept the past couple of months. You fell like I'm judging you,
you're never good enough...blah blah" I went on and on. Finally I
eventually stopped and everything was rather quiet in the shower. She
finally replied "Sister Call, that's not it at all...I don't know how to
say this, but you snore"
...NOOOOO!! Sister Call does NOT
snore. But alas, jokes on me. The allergies have gotten real (ps. I
didn't even think I HAD allergies. bother. leave it to Oklahoma) and my
companion's suffering for it. Bah.
Moving on, Burhnam
got baptized on Sunday! He is a soldier who has been taking the lessons
the past couple of weeks on base. He has a couple family members that
are LDS so he's taken the lessons a few times before. Things really have
'gotten real' for him in Basic as of lately. He's really come to
realize what is most important in life and that is the need for his
Savior. It was a privilege being able to teach him, especially since he
pretty much taught half of the class! The water was freezing he said,
but it was honest to goodness an incredible thing being able to see
someone choose to live a completely different life style based on a
humbling simple, spiritual promptings. He's going to do great things and
become something wonderful through the Atonement.
*funny
note** We were driving behind the troops who have to march to the
chapel that has the font, and all of a sudden we see the elders and a
soldier in an acu streak past behind us. WHAT the? It was Brother
Burhnam, yes, getting baptized! We tried to wave at them but they didn't
see us. We thought they were running to get him a set of white undies
that were much needed (woops). We got there with all the soldiers.
Burhnam still wasn't there...*gulp** we only had the font for another 15
minutes before it was turned over to Church of Christ. He finally
showed!! Ha. Turns out the troops had begun to march without him and
they were running because they were trying to find us AND he could have
gotten into serious trouble (yes, perhaps kicked out of the army) for
being without a battle buddy and just the elders. Welp, nothing was
stopping Brother Burhnam from getting baptized that day! :)
Laura,
the fiance of a part member family that we've been teaching is such a
sweet, quiet lady. She's about 21, our age, and she's VERY shy and has
very low confidence in herself. It's been quite the experience being
able to see her open up through the spirit and love that are in the
lessons. She, in fact, said her first out loud prayer in her life,
yesterday. The spirit was very tender. She simply prayed for her little
son Ben, and then thanked Him for being there for her. I feel like we
get blessed with these tender moments out here every day that I really
just so easily take it for granted! I'm just grateful that we're at least
realizing them. :)
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