Email July 15, 2015

Good Tuesday! (Now Wednesday...) I am so sorry to have to write today. I wish I could have written yesterday, but our pday was kind of stolen from us. Story time! We got a call about 9:15am from the mission office that someone needed some help moving 3 big pieces of furniture io storage. They would meet us at the storage place and we would move it in and be done, no big deal. We get there at 10, when we were supposed to, and they don't show up for another hour. We get into the storage unit and there's an entire 26' Uhaul truck there. They open it and it's full. And instead of just moving 3 big furniture items, we move the entire truck. Almost by ourselves as well! Not that I don't like providing service, but something we figured was going to take 20 minutes ended up taking 4 hours. It took literally half of our pday. But now since our pday was moved to yesterday, we had to squeeze it in between all of our appointments so I didn't have a ton of time to write, this is all just a bunch of little pieces put together. On Tuesday we had a great opportunity to visit a former investigator. He's pretty awesome! He was asking us questions left and right and gave us a lot of opportunity to bear our testimonies of the gospel, of why we are out on our missions, etc. and it was super awesome! We were blessed to talk about a lot of different things that mean a lot to us and he said he's pretty open and loves to hear about different religions and says if he were to find what he feels God is telling him is right, that he would join himself to it! So that was a great experience! We are going to be seeing him again soon! Also on Tuesday, we stopped by and tried to see another former. He had a baptismal date in the past but never made it and the teaching appointments randomly stopped for no reason. So we decided we would go over and see him, which we are glad we did because he still has his Book of Mormon and said he would start reading it! So we left him to read 3 Nephi 11 and got his phone number and we'll be stopping by this week to see how he liked what he read! He wants to meet up this week and seems pretty excited to do so! We had a lesson last Monday with a lady we've been teaching and talked about the second half of the Plan of Salvation and it went super well! The Spirit is so strong every lesson we have with her and her husband. It is so amazing, I love it. She already has such a strong faith in Christ and it is so cool to see it in action! Whenever we teach something she has never heard of before, she always says "That's new, but I like it," or something similar and she is always willing to try it out! She and her husband are on a cruise to Alaska for a honeymoon and they get back this week so we'll be able to have a lesson with them this week! It's kind of funny, though, because after we taught her about the word of wisdom, the husband said something along the lines of, "Well, we have been trying to figure out if we should get a new coffee machine. I guess this is our answer." Haha! It was awesome. It was an opportunity for me to see God's hand directing me because I felt at the end of the lesson that we needed to discuss the Word of Wisdom, and so I acted in faith and brought it up and it was a big blessing! One lady we are teaching has pushed her baptism off indefinitely. Which I am okay with because she is not ready for baptism. She could be, but she hasn't been doing anything for herself to gain a testimony because she is so sidetracked by all of the crazy things that are going on in her life right now. So I am okay with her saying she wants to wait because it's going to help. She just needs help to meet her temporal needs before we can meet her spiritual needs. So that's our plan! We talked with Ali - the girl we baptized a few months ago - after Sacrament meeting and she said she has been looking at the papers for serving a mission!!! ALI MIGHT SERVE A MISSION. Ah!!! That would be so incredible. She would have to wait a year, but it would be so amazing to hear if she serves! And that's about everything I can say for now! I love you guys! I know the gospel is true! It changes lives. That I have seen time and time again on my mission. If you are dissatisfied with your life in any way, use the gospel of Jesus Christ. Live it. Live it fully. Blessings and miracles will flow into your life from heaven. I love you guys! Have a great week! Love, Elder Cevering