Members Coming in Clutch

Well sorry it's been a couple weeks but it's been lit as ever. It was my birthday last sunday and the members hardcore hooked me up haha we went to a couple different appointments with members in our wards and every single one of them made us a dessert and then gave us food haha I'll attach a picture of our haul for the night. Thanks to all of you that wrote and wished me a happy birthday.
It's been an unusual couple of weeks. Elder Anderson has had a lot going on, so we've spent a lot of time between different meetings and things of that nature. It's been hard, but it's been helping him so it's all good.
We had a couple pretty cool miracles. We were in this neighborhood the other day and felt this prompting to just walk down this street. There were a couple members on this street but we had no idea what to do, but we just walked down the street. A couple houses down there was this lady outside smoking. We talked to her for a minute and introduced ourselves and she just stopped us and said "I need to talk to you, just not around my kids" so we went and sat on the curb on the other side of her house and talked. She opened up about everything she has had going on. She told us that her mom died of cancer, her husband was killed in a car crash and then her brother was stabbed to death all within of a couple years of each other. So she adopted her brothers two kids and now has 6 kids in her home. She just barely got remarried so she's doing a bit better, but she said that she didn't believe in God anymore and wanted to just completely forget about him but that she knew he existed because she couldn't have been so angry at something that didn't exist. It broke our hearts, and we ended up talking with her for almost an hour. We've had a couple lessons with her and she is the definition of humble. She said that normally if missionaries came by she'd be swearing at them and yelling at them to go away but that she knew that she needed God back in her life. It's always really special when we get to meet with her and her kids.
Another night we went to go stop by a guy we had met on the street. He didn't answer but we felt prompted to stop by a former investigator who lived in the same complex. She opened the door and was super frazzled haha we talked a bit and she told us that her boyfriend had just gotten arrested and that she had been feeling for awhile that she needed to kick him out. She's in her 40s and he's in her 20's and he's not exactly the greatest kind of guy. We normally don't do this, but we felt prompted to give her a priesthood blessing. We gave her a super simple but powerful blessing. It was actually kind of weird, when we were talking with her her dog was barking just because he was trying to protect her but as soon as we started giving the blessing the dog immediately stopped but then her boyfriends cat started going beserk. There was definitely some bad juju about that guy. But it was a very powerful blessing and then afterwards we looked at her and just invited her to be baptized on the spot and said yes! It was so cool, and she's definitely prepared to bring Christ back into her life.
Last night we were on a little split with the Zone Leaders because one of them had to go to a baptism so the other one came and worked in our area. Our district leader called us and asked about something and then jokingly asked if we had any referrals for him. We didn't, but we promised him we'd get one within a couple hours. So we just went out and talked to people on the street and knocked on some doors and we saw these two high school kids out walking so we stopped them and they were HIGH. It was impressive haha so we just talked with them and joked around and took a selfie with them and we actually set a return appointment with them and then when we asked for their address we found out that they lived in our district leaders area, so that was his referral haha it was cool
It's been lit out here as always. I miss home but i love being out and serving others and helping the people in our area. I love you all. Stay lit
Elder Bond

Pics:

1-3: Birthday in the field was cool

4: Our new District Leader Elder Hill. He's tight

5: A cool car

6: A cool tree

7: Nick and Ollie, those two high kids

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