K-State and Miracles

This week was AWESOME! Monday and Tuesday were filled with good-byes and packing and some finding! But then Wednesday we got up at 4 am and drove to Manhattan (30 min drive) dropped me off so Elder Becraft could get to Wichita! We literally saw a miracle EVERYDAY THIS WEEK!  
The area was kinda slow and didn't have much of a teaching pool so we just went and tried to find! They did have this one girl Danielle who they had taught a couple times. But she will be getting baptized this weekend! So that's awesome shes so cool! We met this girl Angie and shes awesome total homie! Shes a Freshman at K State shes playing soccer here! Then we met this girl Selena shes so cool we had randomly decided to walk to go knock doors at this place half a mile away....... but when we got there we met Selena she's awesome we then came back 30 min later to teach her a lesson and she loved it and accepted a baptismal date! Then as we were leaving there and we saw these 2 girls walking away and we felt like we should talk to them but it was so awkward of a situation and couldn't make it easier to start a convo but then we just shot for it anyways and one of them turned around and said "Oh hey Elders!" So we talked with them and turns out the one is the daughter of a convert and just never got baptized.  She has been to church since she was 9, she has spoke in sacrament, etc. Its so dope! 
Life isn't much different for me as a zone leader i just get less sleep lol  but its honestly pretty fun! Elder Jones is cool! So hes a convert to the church and was baptized at 14. Hes the only member of is family. He served the first 6 months of his mission in Argentina Santa Fe (shout out to my boy Ian cuz that's where he's going) he got sent here cuz he got sent home early because of 2 stress fractures in his back and fought his way back out onto a mission so he could finish so they sent him here so he could have a car. He graduated from Palo Verde out in Vegas. We've been seeing a ton of miracles and stoked to see some more!!!!!!!! Well I LOVE y'all!  
Elder B

Transfer number freaking 10 yikes.......

So this week was pretty dope! Lots of cool miracles happened! So I guess ill just start typing cuz honestly have no clue what happened now that i think of it.... it went tooooooo quick...... so we went on Exchanges with the Elders in Manhattan! That was a pretty good time!!!!!! We met some cool people! And then we had some really good lessons too! We decided we were gonna test our faith and walk a ton so over about 3 days we walked probably 25-30 miles..... no joke it was so exhausting but so worth it!!!!!!!!!!! So were out walking around and have like a 15 min walk to dinner but dinner didn't start for another hour ish so we just started walkin around and we saw this Donut shop and we were just so curious about it for some reason and we went in. As we went in we talked to the girl behind the counter and she was a TOTAL HOMIE so we started talking about normal stuff and then the conversation turned to what we were doing so we started talking and she said "that's pretty cool but i'm atheist" so normally i just kinda let it be from there but something about it just made me push 1 or 2 more times and she opened up a LOT! So we started talking about her purpose and why bad stuff happens to good people! So we gave her a Book of Mormon and a Plan of Salvation pamphlet and invited her to read a chapter and the pamphlet. So we went back the next day and she did!!!!! And she LOVED it! So then we triple dog dared her to come to church....... and she did! And she LOVED IT! It was a huge miracle dude! Shes so awesome and so ready to help life get better!!!!!! That was the biggest miracle we saw this week! 

Y'all are probably wondering about transfers and............ i'm going to Manhattan on the K-State campus.......... as a Zone Leader! So this next transfer is gonna be lots of fun my comp is Elder Jones who is from Vegas and hes actually a convert to the church! Super stoked to be with him!  I love y'all so much! 

P.s. sorry for the lack of pics this week i blinked and it was Monday again...

A dAnG gOoD wEeK!

This week was dopeeeeeeeee y'all! We worked our tails off and it was totally worth it. We also had interviews this week with President. That was awesome we had a couple of awesome training's by the assistants. One of the commitments left to us was to pray for an hour and see what the Lord needs from us and i did it that next night right before bed. But i took it a little further I got showered and then i got ready like i would to go out and work but i put on a suit. And i knelt down and prayed for an hour and yoooooooo it was so dope! I will definitely be doing that more often. But this week we got to meet a couple people some more we met with this lady Malasia and her 4 y.o. daughter Paris! They are awesome she wants to be a motivational speaker and just help everyone she can shes awesome. She had met with missionaries out in TX before but they told her they're only meeting with her cuz they need a baptism in the month............ ugh so now we had to do damage control too . 

We met a dope lady named Leanna too shes a total homie! She is so awesome she came to church too with us! She really liked it it was cool! We also met with one of our Less actives and his mom is now interested in the gospel and she came to church as well! She's so awesome! 

We decided to go tracting in the rich part of town and my favorite part of missionary work is def knocking doors and talking to rich people so that was lit. But what made it even cooler is we found a really cool family with some potential! Sunday was awesome we had 4 of our people come to church and it was really awesome! But that afternoon we remembered there was a community praise fest at the local "Church of God" so we went and showed our faces there and yo it was LIT hahaha the people were pouring their heart and soul into it and the people in the seats got up started dancing and screaming their praises and hallelujahs and amen's it was awesome haha.

This week was a really good week we even set this next one up really awesome too! Yall this work is the best work in the whole wide world! 

Being Persistent lets you get it BUT consistency is how you keep it

This week was nothing spectacular to sit and write about. BUT i say that loosely cuz lots of awesome things happened and I learned a lot of who I am and how I work...... but FIRST i gotta shout out Dad and Aubs for their birthday! Happy 25th birthday  and 21st birthday. 
But yah so I got to go on exchanges with one of my Zone Leaders Elder Jones and hes from Summerlin so that's pretty cool we know lots of mutual people.  But he taught me a lot about being a missionary and things like that. Hes a convert to the church of about 5 years and is super cool so he explained a lot of things from the person being taught side of the teaching. It was wayyyy cool i don't think he even realized how much it helped me hahaha. But that was awesome. 
So this week has been pretty dang tough on my head and its been frustrating cuz all i wanna do is go out and work but my head makes me almost wanna be lazy so its frustrating. One day it was pretty darn ridiculous but i prayed and just said hey, so uh you know how bad my head hurts and you know im gonna go work regardless so please provide a miracle please please please. And we went to an appointment and it fell through but i knew we'd see a miracle if i just pushed through and the very first house we knocked in this neighborhood we found a family of 6 who all want to learn and their pretty interested and the dad is actually over the minister section of K State but is curious if we actually have the truth! So that was purty darn gnarly. But yah our Homies Kelsey and Ray are still wanting to get baptized we just have to help them figure out their Sunday work problem so they can come to church. But their on board. Their awesome I love them! But yah so the reason for my title is cuz that's something i've been working on is trying to make EVERY SINGLE SECOND of the day an opportunity to teach by the spirit or be taught by the spirit because times running out and quicker than i though i feel like im only 4 months out but im almost 13 months.... so I want to take advantage of the Spirit this strong while I can! So that explains that and since i've been trying this out we have seen some pretty gnarly results! 

*funny story* 

So on exchanges we go to teach this person and were having a pretty good lesson on his porch. Then his neighbor comes home and sees us their and I think "oh no this could be really bad or really good" and he pulls out a chair to his porch and listens to the convo about 20 yards away and i look up and he is taking his thumb and sliding it across his throat trying to scare us. Me and Elder Jones both realize and want to ask if that's a threat or a promise and we both get irritated but we don't say anythin, and he does it again...... so we decided to wrap up the lesson like an eggroll and just leave. And as we do the person were teaching says something to the guy and he just starts spitting out all this anti stuff at us and I just wanted to go put this man in his place but luckily the Spirit said don't waste the Lords time with him so we just walk away to get to our car about 3 blocks away. But as were half way there we laughing at the situation trying to bring the spirit back and we are walking down this alley way and we see the dude in his truck and he slams on his breaks and goes in reverse and then drives into the alley way so we just paid minimal attention to him trying to get him to leave us alone and all of a sudden he tries to hit us so we just walk over to this tree where he couldnt' and me fuming trying to stay calm just walks to the corner with Elder Jones and then we sprint to the car when were outta sight and drive off quick. It was so funny and so frustrating! 

The reason i shared this is cuz y'all probably know how i would've reacted before my mission and now i had the patience to just walk away from the situation and leave it alone! Hahahaha well i love y'all to pieces!  

Also a pic of the gnarly storm we had that was a funnel cloud forming!!!! And the other one is the cold front meeting the warmth! 

Really Litt week

So this week was pretty dope! So We will just start on Tuesday. So were sitting in the apartment starting weekly planning and all of a sudden we both just had a feeling we weren't gonna hit our goals if we didn't step it up so we decided to make a couple sacrifices and be all in on our goals. And we decided we'd sacrifice some sleep and we'd stop listening to all music to show the Lord our dedication. And that first day was hard........ but right at the end of the night we met these 2 people who are just dope! They both want to be baptized and they talk about getting married in the temple its awesome! That's not all! Then Wednesday was Zone Conference and that was awesome we talked a lot about unification as a mission! That was an awesome meeting! Then we went all week trying to find new people to teach! And Saturday night comes around and all of our plans fell through and we were like what now......... and the name Becky came into our head. So last time we tried Becky we rolled up to her house and i got to the door maybe a second before Elder Becraft and i see this figure get up from the couch and run behind the open front door..... and so we sat there for like 5 min knocking ringing the doorbell and calling her hahahahahaha and she wouldn't come out but we saw her hair through the window haha. So we decided we would go over and have a "if you don't want us to come by just TELL us" lesson hahahaha and as we get there we knock and her 30 yr old daughter answers and is so excited to see us and tells us she wants us to come back this week! It was pretty awesome honestly! Well that's pretty much my week. Just finding and teaching its been awesome I love it here! I love y'all have an amazing week! Oh and yah that's a spider were holding hahahaha that was right after we were holding a snake and it did its business on Elder Becrafts shoe hahaha. 

The 4th of July in Wamego

So this week was pretty cash . First we had an Extended MLC where we all got to go down! It was awesome had to be up at 5 and drive all day pretty much hahaha! Luckily were alive! But it was so cool! We talked about what we wanted the mission culture to be for Pres. And Sister McCustions last year! 
So here in Wamego they kinda go all out... so this small town of about 3,500 people grows to about 50,000 on the fourth because everyone from all the small non existing towns around comes and all of Manhattan (where k-state is) all comes over!!! It was so dope!!! Literally we had to have talked to 5,000 or more people about the gospel! It was dope! We found these pretty cool members at the parade and we got to talk to them for a good bit they're from KC! (Thats that squad pic)  But this week was pretty awesome we found 4 way solid people! 
We are so stoked for this upcoming week! Because we know if we just stay diligent and have faith and not give in to Satan's stupid obvious tricks then we will be blessed! Its dope! Well my year mark was on Thursday and that was a little weird but it honestly was a big kick in the booty cuz Im coming up on my last of everything so it honestly was a huge motivator to be the true disciple Christ needs me to be while Im here for this short time in Kansas! 
*Funny story*

So we decided to head out to a small town one day named paxico and that place has about 900 people and we had a couple potential people to teach to see and BOY ILL TELL YOU WHAT that was the first time i ever really felt like i was in Kansas like it was a old western town, surrounded by farmed land, the dudes didn't wear shirts..... it was hilarious. So we knock on this house and this 16 yr old kid comes out and we kinda just chit chat with him and we invite him to church and he explains why he will never go to church again! And before we start to leave he asked if we wanted to see his racing lawn-mower he had  so of course we couldn't pass this opportunity up and we went and saw it he also had a 4 wheeler, a mini chopper, and a mini mini chopper. All that wouldn't work! Hahaha it was so funny. Anyways well i love you all and please stay safe! 

-Elder B

PS we found the yellow brick road!! 👌

W-awe-mee-go

This week was filled with lots of goodbyes and lots of hello's too! I got to say lots of goodbyes out there in Hutch! It was pretty darn sad to leave i love that place so much its so litty! But Wamego is pretty Cash too! The ward here is awesome! Since we whitewashed in we spent most of the time introducing ourselves to the members of the ward! Its been awesome! We got to clean out our area book and everything too! So we found out Wamego has the littest firework show in the whole wide state of Kansas hahaha so this next week will be really cool! Our town goes from about 3000 to about 50k for the fourth of July! Its gonna be awesome haha! But yah our week has been filled with putting faith in all we do cuz honestly we know nothing about the area so we have been trying to act on EVERY SINGLE prompting! Its awesome! Oh yah when we were driving to Wamego we got to stop in Junction City and oh i miss that place too it was awesome its good im in the same zone as it now! Elder Becraft is from Ogden Utah! Hes awesome this transfer is gonna be cash! But yah sorry this week wasn't all that interesting but it was busy busy trying to get familiar with the area! And this area is honestly awesome! Oh yah well I get to speak again on the 15th lol....... well i love y'all so much! And i hit a year this week......... CRAZINESS! 
-Elder B