Transfers and Sunday Mishaps

Good morning everyone! It's been a long time in Kimberly and I'm excited to say that transfers happened!

I'm staying. For another transfer.

It should be good though because we have a ton of things lined up for July! My new companion is Elder Lowe and he admits that he is a bit crazy! He is a fun missionary who wants what is best for this area. We have had a good week already! 

But, on Sunday, we had dinner with a family in one of our wards and Elder Lowe was joking around like he always does. Apparently this family got offended by what he joked about (sister missionaries not doing work and being bad missionaries when the grandma was a sister missionary and was the offended one) so after dinner they called the Ward Mission Leader and he got onto us and told us to fix it. So we had to stop a very productive exchange on Monday to go to their house and apologize for what was said. This was hard for Elder Lowe and I to do. When we apologized, we did feel a lot better afterwards. This happened in 1st ward which has all the wealthy and "influential" members of the stake in it (or so the WML says).

The Atonement of Jesus Christ is amazing. It helps us change and be better every time we fail or mess up. I saw that on Monday and I saw the change in the room from when we walked in to when we walked out. It was amazing to feel the spirit that was there and how it grew our relationship with the members and how we felt after. 

The Prophet is right, we need peacemakers and badly. Hopefully I can continue being a peacemaker in my own life and am able to bring peace to those around me. 

Have a great week!

Grant Williams

Photos
The 1st stake president of the Kimberly Idaho Stake. He turned 90 a week ago!
Elder Jones and I at transfers! I'm sad to see him go.
Our last district lunch last transfer!
Eli Jones and Elder Jones and I! I taught him in my first area and he got baptized a week after I left! He is also crazy.
I got a blue tongue on exchanges. 
One of my exchange companions "fell asleep" in the car.
A lady had some hand-carved wild west miniatures! They are cool!
Elder Meyer, Elder Rosevear, and I all in one picture.
And the meme!











Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Afton for 2!

Image
Hey everyone, sorry for no email last week, I was waiting to send one after I got transfer news! I'm staying in Afton for another transfer and getting a new companion! His name is Elder Garcia and he's from Arkansas! He's super funny and we get along really well! This area is just a roller-coaster! We used to have 4-5 potentials for this month and now we have like 2. It has been sad to see the situations that make the people we are teaching wait to get baptized. We are doing our best and being diligent while on the Lord's errand and we hope to see miracles! This area is amazing and I can't wait to see what the Lord has in store for it! Grant Williams Photos (sorry, there's not a ton) A cool car we saw at church this Sunday  A nice sunset And the Afton Wyoming Elkhorn arch! For photos that I can't send with email join the photo drive!
Read more

Unexpected surprises...

Image
So, this last week has been amazing. Elder Jones and I have gone around visiting a ton of members so that we can get to know their neighbors. We have already seen success from this and are going to continue to do it. A miracle we saw this last Tuesday was a call from the Seminary teacher in the stake. He called and told us about this girl who wants to be baptized and wanted to meet that next day! So we met with her and 2 of her friends on Wednesday and she is ELECT! Many things in her life have lead her to this moment and now her friends are helping her make that choice to follow the Savior.  After that lesson at noon, we set the next one for 7:30 the next day just before transfers! We taught her the plan that God has for us and invited her to be baptized. She agreed and set a goal for June 3rd! It is amazing what the lord has in store for each and every person on the earth. The amount of love he shows us through the scriptures and just in the world around us is beautiful.  Th...
Read more

The Elect

Image
Hey everyone! Sorry for missing an email this last week, I realized I needed to write one at 10pm and just decided to wait till today. We had transfers this last week and I get to stay in the Kimberly 1 area and I swapped out Elder Johnson for Elder Villezcas (VE-yez-kas)! He loves anything to do with Sonic the Hedgehog and loves to talk. This is going to be a fun transfer! Last week went slow like the end of a transfer usually does but now we have to get that momentum again. There weren't a ton of miracles either but they are definitely coming back.  Something that I saw happen last week was when Elder Johnson and I were teaching this really old guy named Tom Smith. He's a PMF and had been meeting with missionaries for a LONG time and we had finally dug through his concerns to whether or not he believes Joseph Smith is a prophet or not. We had challenged him the week before to make up his mind on that subject but he had forgotten that part of the challenge when we came back. A...
Read more