08/24/2020 Popeye's tailgate party

Hey this week was amazing! Hope yours was too. We did a lot of service, so the week went by super quick. But usually when you do a lot of service, you aren't able to do a lot of teaching and so at the end of the week you don't feel as spiritually uplifted. Well, the Lord provided us with so many opportunities to be spiritually fed. We have began to teach someone who is living with a member. We watched the movie Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration with them and invited them all to pray about it. The roommate opened up and said she hadn't prayed since she was 9 years old. So she agreed to say her first sincere prayer in over decade. And during our later visit, she testified of the inexplicable joy and peace that came over her as she prayed. And at a home sacrament meeting with them on Sunday, another friend was there and the roommate was testifying of how answers about our message came to her. It was definitely one of the best moments of my mission thus far. 


Right after that "sacrament meeting" we went to another with a family where only the wife is a member. The father has historically not been involved much in lessons. But over the course of this last week (we also watched the Restoration movie with them), he has really opened up too. We read 1 Nephi 8 with them and he dominated the discussion! And his insights were way good. Gave some insights I hadn't thought about before. That lesson was also super special. The gospel can really bring families closer together! 

Those are the big highlights. 

Pics:
1) Went bowling this P Day with a member and her daughter. The daughter schooled us all. 
 
2) the bishop owns three tortoises. This is one of them. 

3) before bowling we had a Popeye's "tailgate party." Elder Danielson has been in the mission field for 4 weeks and has gone to Popeye's 3 times. Maybe a 4th time today.... 


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