Talk to Everyone

This week was SO LEGENDARY! Miracles baby, tons of them. I literally have been thanking God so hard it's unreal. After having a frustrating Sunday last week and having nobody answer their phone, yet having two people miraculously show up, we were able to put one of those people on date and she's super solid.

This week we were able to get two families we're teaching to church and a few individuals as well! We had 10 people come to church and we were so happy! It was crazy chaotic but we're super pumped because one of these Nigerian families is pretty solid and said they are going to start coming to this church every week, we just need to now put them on date for baptism! It was super legendary. This Sunday was also the primary program so it was a perfect time for a lot of people to come to church for the first time. 

Another crazy, cool miracle…we had an appointment on Wednesday morning before district council in our favorite massive building, so we went there at 9:00 am. As we were riding up the elevator to visit the individual we had scheduled we started talking to this young adult girl named Unique who was clearly pretty bummed. She said her roommate had the key to her apartment so she had to wait out in the hallway until her roommate came in like 4 hours.

Although we were on our way to an appointment, we decided to not let souls perish in unbelief by being swift, so we offered to keep her company for the first 15 minutes of her long wait and teach her a lesson. She let us, and we all sat on the floor outside her apartment. We taught her the restoration and she was pretty interested in the Book of Mormon. We left her with the Book of Mormon and went to go and visit our other friend we had previously scheduled and he flaked on us.

That Saturday we had another lesson with Unique and invited her to church and she committed to come! She came to church and one of the ward missionaries sat by her the entire time and even took her home and now they're homies. That Sunday we put her on date for baptism and she loves everything. And we literally found her less than a week ago. TALK TO EVERYONE!! The elect are everywhere it is so awesome! The lord took us to that building at 9:00 AM on a Wednesday morning for a reason and it wasn't the way we planned it to be, it was even better. 

Something really fun we did this week was hit the bus with two people from the Lowe building to get to church. We all made it on time and they really enjoyed church. It was awesome even though I was stressed out of my mind because these bus schedules can be super wacky. If we can get enough people on the bus with us, we can just turn the Chicago public transportation bus into a church bus! That is the goal haha. Tender mercies of losing the car is 2 of our people came because they rode the bus with us. 

So this week it just actually got heckin cold, please pray for us because it's currently 10 degrees and feels like - 6 degrees and I accidentally just barely wore crocs to go to laundry and crocs and Ice are not a good combo so I can't believe I'm alive but I am. Waiting by the bus stops has been a lot of fun in the freezing cold haha. Like holy smokes. I got prideful because I survived - 50 last year but I'm going to die haha. Winter is freezing. 

Other than that the week has been pretty usual, we had new missionary training which I always enjoy because they provide lunch which is better than the usual weak sandwich and granola bars I eat, and we get to have the new missionaries practice contacting us which is a ton of fun. I love to pull the Jesus is black card on them every single time. (Can you blame me, it gets pulled on me every day). 

I also went on exchanges with another brand new missionary in the district named Elder Heffner and he's a straight homie. So that made it pretty legendary! 

Other than that that's about it! Hope everyone has an amazing week! Also I took a bunch of pics with my comp this week because I got like zero last week, sorry, everyone meet Elder Levanger, he's a good man! It’s mostly just me and my comp, me and Elder Heffner, and our brother Gabriel who came to church and loved it so much that he wanted to take pics with everyone. 47st Street. This place is God's chosen land.