Dear Elder Summers, I felt prompted to write something to put on your blog. I hope you don’t mind. Today marks the last of the double digit days until you return. Tomorrow (May 21) will be nine days and single digits until we see you again. It’s funny, I have been counting down the days until you come home. The day you left the number was 735 and it seemed like an eternity we would be apart. The progress was slow at first. All I could...
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In the spirit of Mother’s Day being yesterday I thought I would share a story about my mother this week 😊 When I was younger I would wake up in the middle of the night sometimes crying because of the pain I was in. My mom would come in my room to see if I was okay. After a few minutes of talking she quietly walked back into her room and grabbed a rice pack then we would walk downstairs to the kitchen. As she put the rice pack...
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This week was kind of all over the place. We had an exchange with the Canton elders and Elder Beckey and Elder Baird met a man who was interested in learning more about the church! They taught him the Restoration and set up a time to meet again the next day. Well the next day Elder Beckey and I went to the return appointment and had a pretty lengthy discussion. What we learned the most coming out of the discussion is that a lot of...
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Hey everyone this email will be short. Earlier this week we had an unexpected miracle happen. We went over to visit a lady that we have been teaching for a while to see how she was doing and while we were there we got on the topic of the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ which is Faith, Repentance, Baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the end. As we discussed each one the lady told us she wants to be baptized....
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Let me preface this with the backstory. Christmas fell on a Monday which is P-day for the missionaries. Christmas along with Mother’s Day are the two holidays that the missionaries are allowed to call home. With all of that going on, Elder Summers did not send an email this week. He and I talked and wanted to provide an update on something meaningful. This is my gift to him, I wrote the message this week and hope you find...
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