hey yall!! :D
I made it safely to Dothan. This place is super city! I felt out of place here at first but I have adjusted. :D I love the ward already. We live like a mile away from the church so its really close. Nice to have it all around. Bike area so I am going to sweat again all summer. We have awesome young men here. A few families kinda like mine, one with 5 boys no girls and another with 6 boys no girls. One of the brothers in the 6 boys no girls served his misson in Houston Texas with Mark Cooley and actually knew him. Not super well but he did know him. My new companion is Elder Franchino from Spokanne, Washington. He is a hard worker. We will be tearing it up out here. Lots of good things going to happen.
This week we had some awesome experiences:
1) We live next to a big ole hospital so everyone in the surrounding cities come here. Well as a result we get lots of calls to give blessings, and Thursday we got an emergency call about a baby who was just born and needed to be brought to Birmingham to have some tests done. We rushed to the hospital and saw this beatiful baby and gave him a blessing and as we sealed the annointing the baby just stopped crying and the Spirit was so strong it was so powerful. There was such a love for that baby. Such a precious child. I couldn't yet imagine what it would be like to see my child. That would be crazy!
2) Less spiritual but funny, we went to dinner Thursday night and my companion and I pulled up to this trailer we were supposed to eat at. We knock, and some random guy answers the door (keep in mind I don't know these people so I think this is the member feeding us) he steps outside and says hey, then shuts the door. I thought the member was going to cancel on us cause we were late from giving the baby a blessing. Then he asks if we want to go in and we do and I start cutting up with them, getting to know them and Elder Franchino looks over at me and hands me a card and he wrote on it, "I don't know who these people are..." haha I just stop and try to play it off like we knew what was happening and then all the sudden the COPS BUST IN!!!...................Just kidding no cops, but the member comes in and asks if we got lost, turns out we were one trailer off and knocked on the neighbors door. It was a good first full day experience of Dothan.
3) THE WORST: On transfer day, they used a truck to transport all our bikes and as we were going from one spot to another the Assistants got a call and the guys in the truck said, "We lost one of the bikes." So long story short, turns out my bike flew off the truck and they couldn't find it. haha so bye bye bike! Thank goodness though Elder Brown, from AZ was going home and he was wanting to get rid of his bike so he gave me his. Even though is is an XL size and mine was a youth size! haha I have this huge bike frame now with the seat all lowered as far as it can go. The Lord definately provided a way.
We have tons of awesome young men here, lots of them are going to be serving missions in the future, we are trying to help them have that desire. Do you have any ideas on how to encourage young men to serve missions?
Love yall! Thank you for the support! Hope all is well! Have a great week! Remember who you are and what you stand for! :p
-Elder West
I made it safely to Dothan. This place is super city! I felt out of place here at first but I have adjusted. :D I love the ward already. We live like a mile away from the church so its really close. Nice to have it all around. Bike area so I am going to sweat again all summer. We have awesome young men here. A few families kinda like mine, one with 5 boys no girls and another with 6 boys no girls. One of the brothers in the 6 boys no girls served his misson in Houston Texas with Mark Cooley and actually knew him. Not super well but he did know him. My new companion is Elder Franchino from Spokanne, Washington. He is a hard worker. We will be tearing it up out here. Lots of good things going to happen.
This week we had some awesome experiences:
1) We live next to a big ole hospital so everyone in the surrounding cities come here. Well as a result we get lots of calls to give blessings, and Thursday we got an emergency call about a baby who was just born and needed to be brought to Birmingham to have some tests done. We rushed to the hospital and saw this beatiful baby and gave him a blessing and as we sealed the annointing the baby just stopped crying and the Spirit was so strong it was so powerful. There was such a love for that baby. Such a precious child. I couldn't yet imagine what it would be like to see my child. That would be crazy!
2) Less spiritual but funny, we went to dinner Thursday night and my companion and I pulled up to this trailer we were supposed to eat at. We knock, and some random guy answers the door (keep in mind I don't know these people so I think this is the member feeding us) he steps outside and says hey, then shuts the door. I thought the member was going to cancel on us cause we were late from giving the baby a blessing. Then he asks if we want to go in and we do and I start cutting up with them, getting to know them and Elder Franchino looks over at me and hands me a card and he wrote on it, "I don't know who these people are..." haha I just stop and try to play it off like we knew what was happening and then all the sudden the COPS BUST IN!!!...................Just kidding no cops, but the member comes in and asks if we got lost, turns out we were one trailer off and knocked on the neighbors door. It was a good first full day experience of Dothan.
3) THE WORST: On transfer day, they used a truck to transport all our bikes and as we were going from one spot to another the Assistants got a call and the guys in the truck said, "We lost one of the bikes." So long story short, turns out my bike flew off the truck and they couldn't find it. haha so bye bye bike! Thank goodness though Elder Brown, from AZ was going home and he was wanting to get rid of his bike so he gave me his. Even though is is an XL size and mine was a youth size! haha I have this huge bike frame now with the seat all lowered as far as it can go. The Lord definately provided a way.
We have tons of awesome young men here, lots of them are going to be serving missions in the future, we are trying to help them have that desire. Do you have any ideas on how to encourage young men to serve missions?
Love yall! Thank you for the support! Hope all is well! Have a great week! Remember who you are and what you stand for! :p
-Elder West
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