Happy Halloween!
So I received the little package
that you sent this past week! thanks so much for the pictures, everyone seems
to be having lots of fun over at the house! The costumes look great too...
Nachooooo... haha dads was pretty funny! at least I think that is who he was
being.. haha any way this Halloween is going to be pretty fun for us, we are
going to a member's to eat and play some games a stuff.. We have to be in at 6
on Thursday, just so everyone stays safe I guess.. I will have to let you know
how it turns out.
It’s really hard to think of where I
would like to start with this week, because we had so much going on and so many
great things happened this week! Monday was the start of our great week! We
went over to the G..... home for dinner and found out that a few
investigators were also coming over, it was a surprise but a good one at that
matter! During dinner we ate some wonderful food and had a little hot pepper
eating contest.. haha bad idea! Elder Cutler and myself both had a bite of one and man were our mouths
on fire!! Brother G..... ate one, it was super funny, I was crying because it
was super funny, not because it was hot.. but that all transitioned to our
lesson which went very well!
We spent two full days out of our
area this week, which is really tough on the area and the people, but the Lord
made up for it..I’ll tell you why in a little bit. On Wednesday we went all the
way down to Lenox, over 2 hours away.. I had a great time serving with the
elder in that area. It was a cold day and wasn’t snowing but almost. Missionary
work is a lot harder it seems like in the cold. Right after that we had a
district meeting and then traveled to Chariton. Elder Brown and myself went on
exchanges together. We saw a lot of miracles that day, it seemed like everyone
we talked to wanted to listen to us, so we taught everyone that we talked to..
which doesn’t always happen that way. The day just goes by so fast when you
teach all day, it’s crazy really. The last person we talked to lives out in a
little town, in a rugged old house, with old cars all over and random things
all over the place. Honesty I was a little scared to go knock on the guy’s
door, but we continued to press forward. We ended up teaching the man and his girlfriend,
they accepted the gospel very well. They had so many questions that can only be
answered by the restored gospel! It’s really humbling to think about how
blessed we are as members of Christ’s church. You really don’t realize what you
have until you don’t have it anymore. I have seen a lot of crazy things out
here in Iowa and it has taught me so much, stuff that I would have never
learned anywhere else! My invitation is to look at the life that you do have
and see how blessed you are compared to some people who don’t have very much.
The world CANNOT give you want you need as a child of God, only God can do that
for you. Another thing that I learned well at a lesson the other day, that the
spirit taught me was, not to hide my true identity as a missionary, now it took
me a little bit to figure out what that really meant to me. Hiding the truth or
who you are as member of the church is something that Satan likes to make you
do. Share what you know and let the world hear your voice, as you continue to
cry unto this world with a sound of a trump! I am grateful for the spirit:)
On Sunday we ended up having 5
people come to church, which is the most that we’ve had in a long time! It was
a miracle and was a blessing for the work that we put in this past week. People
are changing everywhere you go, let yourself be changed also. The work is true I know it
is!
I hope you have a great Halloween!
you will have to let me know how it goes! LOVE YOU ALL!
LOVE ELDER KIRTON!!
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