Dear Family,
Of course things
are well here. Conference was great of course as always. It’s good
to hear the girls enjoyed it. We’ve met quite a few new less actives from
the 3rd ward that we are excited to be working with. One most frequently
is a lady, she was married in the temple about 25 years ago, but the marriage
ended bad fast. She’s got a son that was raised by her parents and served a mission and
everything. She is well on the path back, has read the Book of Mormon 2x, and now is in the
Old Testament. She has trouble with her memory and
communication, but she’s really sincere.
Tuesday we had a cool little
experience. I decided to bike down J’s street and happened to
catch him outside. We talked for a bit,
he was really glad and appreciative and we had a good brief
talk, then we were heading by a familiar apartment complex and saw a woman that we knew, in her motor wheel chair trying to get her
shopping cart over a curb to bring home. I hopped off my bike to take it,
and Elder F followed bringing my and his bike(which is kind of hard) but
a second later, an SUV pulled up, and S hopped out and helped. We got the groceries to her place and in and then I
finally got a minute to say hi and thank S, and I noticed he looked awful
and had been crying. He told us he had just watched his grandmother pass away
over skype, and needed a prayer. He didn’t want anything more than that
so we prayed with him, and he said "it’s neat that I’m not even Mormon,
but I just knew I needed a prayer, and I find you guys." So that was
good.
We also saw K sitting out in the complex talking at the little neighborhood picnic
bench which was great to see. He’s a less active, he smokes, he’s about
50, he’s a really nice guy and used to come to church (alone) but we hadn’t
seen him in a while, and were really worried he was depressed and spent all day
drinking, and no one had seen him in forever (we scout out info from the
neighbors) but he was out there and we got to say hi and he seemed well.
Wednesday morning
we talked to W again for a bit. Hopefully we’ll get to play
basketball with him sometime soon. We talked about conference and it was
good, he really does want to meet more, but really is really busy. He
felt really bad for not studying. He works a night shift and is a busy
guy, but we’ve got a good relationship, and it’s clear the Spirit is telling him
something whether he realizes it or not. Every time I really start to
think he’s just a nice guy, he says something really sincere about wanting us
to keep trying, and thanking us.
We’ve been
tracting some and have some people were hoping to work with. One’s a Polynesian family from Salt
Lake
Love,
Elder Pyron
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