AWOL Investigator

American Gothic House ~ Eldon, Iowa

An Iconic Companionship

President Eyring???

There's this investigator we have, R, who we heard from a few weeks ago saying that his car broke down in Keota, and since then we hadn't been able to make contact with him. He lives way out in the boonies and he was never there. R is this really awesome massive, lonely dude who lives like 100 feet away from the house his great grandfather grew up in or something, and I love him to death. So we were driving home from his house yesterday and my companion told me this story about saying specific prayers so he was like "let's pray and tell Heavenly father that we will be at the library at like 11 or 11:30 tomorrow and ask him to let R be there too." So I prayed while we drove and for whatever reason I felt like we should say 10:30 so I did, and Elder Wood told me that was his original thought but he didn't want to go that early haha but it wasn't meant to be. So we planned to see him here at the library, and we pulled into the library at like 10:20, waited until 10:28ish, prayed again, and we walked in here and here he is, sitting behind me watching Latin Music Videos. A Miracle.

Also, there's this Marshallese guy named M and his girlfriend B that we've been teaching, and they're awesome. Mack and us are super tight and he's hilarious. We taught him the word of wisdom but he couldn't give up chewing tobacco and it was really really a bummer. I think a lesson I've learned before my mission and during my mission is that when you Love someone deeply enough, you open yourself up to the possibility of getting hammered by an equally deep sadness. It was so sad to see him cling to his tobacco. So we prayed and fasted for another miracle. The next time we went over, he told us that the same day he went to get a job interview, there was an emergency so the guy couldn't interview him and M couldn't work so he didn't have money to buy chew, so he was three days off of it and he decided to keep going with it. He's really, really struggling with the addiction but he knows that he can do it. We are taking him and B to Bubba Q's tomorrow. Also he invited us to he and B's birthday party and we are going to get Beana a Can of Beans for her birthday because her name is "Bean"a.

God knows the ways that things must be done. I've got a few situations that I've been thinking about a lot lately, and they're definitely not going the way I'd like them to. But I've been finding strength in the knowledge that God has something much better in store for me. Always trust the love that our Father has for us.

I love you all a ton