This week has been a bit crazy, it all started on Tuesday when we got a call from the mission office, and they told us that this person named Tammy Kroetsch from Cardston needed a blessing and so we headed for the hospital and when we were going in we found one of the people that we ran into last week when we went to the hospital who wanted us to teach him. He had his name removed and is wanting to come back. So we scheduled an appointment with him for the next day and then had a guy named Tim Hamilton, who we have been reading the BOM with take us up to the place that we could find this Tammy. When we got up there we found out that she had overdosed, we didn't know if she did it on purpose or not but she wanted a blessing. I didn't have my oil, but Elder Dolinar did and when he opened it he found that it had somehow leaked. Tammy's husband who had just been baptized and didn't have the priesthood, for some reason had a bottle of oil. He said that the missionaries gave it to him. So we delivered the blessing and then called the Cardston Elders, one of them being Elder Wilgar the one that I played ball with a ton in my last area, and told him how it went. It was pretty funny because Wilgar told us that Tammys husband asked for it, and said that he really needed it, he didn't know why but he felt very strongly that he would need it, and it was before she overdosed. That was so cool to me when he told us about that, just one of these little miracles that are so cool when you witness them. I know that he was inspired and that he acted on the prompting that he had, something that I am sure that we could do better. A lot of times we feel the prompting but a lot of the time we don't act on it.
So on Wednesday we scheduled an appointment with one of the members in the ward who had been a convert. He just happened to have one of his non-member friends there and so we talked with them for a while and shared a couple of scriptures, and asked if she would let us "practice" the lessons on her and she said yes so hopefully in the near future we will be able to start teaching her. She is from another church but she is pretty open so that is good. We met with the guy at the hospital and gave him a BOM and scheduled another appointment with him. We also met with Finola, and Levon wasn't there and she said guys sorry but I have some bad news Levon went out drinking again. Levon is a less active who hadn't drunk since we started teaching them. She was really sad, and she said that no matter what happens between her and Lee she will keep coming to church and continue with the lessons. She said that if it wasn't that she was so far in this she would tell us to not come back. My mind was blown. Because if I was in that situation I would not even want to see anyone. I can tell that her testimony in this gospel is very strong and it is a miracle just because of how solid she is. I weighed myself at a member's house at dinner that night and found that I weight 199.8 So I haven't broken that 200 yet but pretty close now haha.
Thursday was pretty cool as well. We met with Rob Broadhead who served a mission and then fell away and found a Chinese and has a little girl now and is coming back. His girlfriend is a non-member and we are going to start teaching her and I bet that she is going to be solid. Later that day we had dinner with an older family and got talking about how they used to have missionaries stay with them in their house. I then remembered that Eric Domgard had served in my mission and asked them if they knew him and they didn't think so but they had some pictures of some of the missionaries. So I looked through them and found a few pictures of him! I couldn't believe it.
This Blog is a summary of the emails and letters sent by Elder Trevor Allred about his mission.
