Do you know that feeling you get when you don't want
to write, but you have to or else your CRAZY mother who loves you to DEATH will
drive up to your mission and strangle you??? ... NO??? Well I do. Just kidding,
I love you mom :)
Hahaha This week sure did fly by!!!! First off, Thank
you to my loving grandparents who gave me my birthday gifts :) Afterwards all
my missionary buds said that that sort of thing is quite common in the mission
so don't feel weird about it. So thank you!
Well first off, Congratulations to Andrea and
Clinton!!!! I saw pictures and it looked like a beautiful wedding!
Also Congrats to Debbie and Jeremy, Give Maylie my
love and I will see her in about a year and a half! hahah
Congrats to Katelyn Holland for getting her mission
call!!! Everett Washington is going to have so much success come September! :)
It seems like the Rash family and friends have sure
been busy this summer! Up here in Pocatello things are starting to warm up. We
had a cold spell for a little bit but it’s getting better. My companion and I
are as hard working and as fun loving as ever!
This week we set a baptismal date with one of our
investigators, Juan. We took him on a tour of the church building and he felt
the spirit so strong! We asked him if he wanted to be baptized and he said yes!
He is going to be baptized on July 20th. The story about how this was all
possible is kind of miraculous! I will tell it to you... So we didn't have an
appointment with Juan. But we felt like we needed to go take him on a church
tour. So we went and grabbed a member and then went over to his house. We
knocked on the door and his Fiancée told us he wasn't home. So dejected and disappointed
we walked back to the car. As we were about to drive away I saw something shiny
in the road. (yes yes yes.... I get sidetracked easily by shiny things) so I
told the others with me to look. We spent a few moments talking about what it
could be then I went to go grab it. It turns out it was a huge bullet casing
for some high powered rifle. We looked at it for a little while longer and
right when we were going to leave again, Juan pulled into his driveway. Now if I
hadn't been distracted and taken those 3 minutes to examine that casing, we
would have missed Juan. God works in mysterious ways. And sometimes he uses the
ADHD of elders to accomplish his work.
We have met with a lot of Investigators and are
working to help them progress. The Wards here are pretty small like I’ve
mentioned before. They have A LOT of inactive members that we will be working
with as well.
Yesterday we had the opportunity to hear from the
Apostles about missionary work on the Worldwide Leadership Broadcast about
Missionary Work. In it Elder Holland talked a lot about the new ways
missionaries will be doing work. Such as the use of the Internet, Facebook,
IPADS, and Blogs. The Lord is really really hastening the work!!! I'm so
excited to see the changes take place throughout my mission! I love you all and
can't wait to hear from you.
I'd like to bear my testimony to you. That I know that
this is the most important work ANYONE can do. The work we are about is the
Work of Salvation of Souls. I know that our Savior lives. That he loves each
and every one of us! And that the Holy Ghost is real. I have felt it and I know
anyone can feel it! If you just experiment on the Word. Read the Book of
Mormon. Pray about it. And go to Church. If you JUST do those THREE things! YOU
WILL FEEL IT!!!! I promise you that as a Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. I
love you guys and am proud to be serving a mission!
Love,
Elder Rash
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