After that we went and visited the O'dwyers and that’s about it! Nothing much really happened until this past Thursday! I got a way AWESOME PACKAGE!!! The chocolate covered peanut butter balls were the bomb! I couldn’t stop eating them....I even shared a couple which was shocking to say in the least! Needless to say though....those were all gone within a couple days...
But I have to say, my favorite was the booklet with all the pictures!
Anyway, right after picking up the package and tearing it open gorging myself on the most delicious creation ever, we had to do weekly planning! 3 hours of planning for a whole week is never enough! But we were able to finish it in two hours because we were on the balls of our feet the whole time!
Right after that we had an awesome lesson with this guy named Leaf! This guy is from China and doesn’t consider himself worthy to be baptized! He is so prepared to hear the gospel!
Next thing ya know, we went and did service for this lady named Sheila, that almost got baptized 4-5 times. We did service for a fundraiser for Africa. We were tasked with grilling hot dogs and stuff. Unbeknownst to me though, when we’re hooking up all the valves to the grill, one of the kids turned the grill on high, so propane was leaking out like crazy. Anyway, long story short, I go to light it and a huge flame goes up, and my hand is all burnt, my eyelashes are all burned off, and some of my hair has that singed look. All I was worried about though was my eyebrows, and I am happy to say, that I still have them Haha!
It wasn’t until Saturday that things started getting a little crazy. One of our recent converts wife was getting baptized. However, he didn’t know that he was going to baptize her until 3 am, so needless to say, he was afraid, and he called us saying that he wanted someone else to do it. We just sat there, wondering what the heck we can do. That’s when I can sincerely say, that God spoke directly to me. As I knelt down to pray, a thought came to mind. That thought kept coming back again and again. So we made a couple phone calls and pulled off some awesome crazy miracles! So, you do have to know first that Elder Ringer was the one who baptized our recent convert (Richard). Elder Tan and Elder Ringer had taught him everything and he was golden and ready to be baptized. Anyway, we pulled some strings, called the zone leaders, and next thing we know, I am in Maple Ridge with another elder and Elder Ringer is back in his old area with Elder Tan. They pulled him aside and talked to him and made some miracles happen, and next thing you know, Richard is baptizing his wife! Such a miracle!
Sunday rolls around and it honestly was probably the best day of the week! We had Leaf and his wife at church as well as Sheila! Such an awesome miracle! We then got to bring Leaf and his wife Eva to a baptism and the spirit was so strong! I was praying so hard as we were there that they would feel the spirit! It was so awesome!
Later that day, we went over to the Henry’s and had steak, corn on the cob, and all the fixings for dinner! It was SO GOOD! No dad, nobody cooks as good a steak as you, but, Brother Sulymkas steaks were pretty dang good...
Anyway! This was the best week ever in Brookswood! So many miracles and now we have so much more to do! Love you guys so much!
Love
Elder McCown
