This week was a pretty good one! We had a crazy snow storm on
Thursday and Friday, and we did a lot of YSA finding. Our Stake
Presidency last Sunday gave us YSA lists for all of the wards in the
Stake, and they told us to find out whether or not they still lived
there, and to invite them to a YSA barbecue that is tonight. They
said they are trying to figure out if they have enough YSA members to
start their own Ward! I'm so pumped, that would be so fun to cover a
YSA Ward! We'll see I guess. We had a lot of experiences visiting
all of these members. I will share a few of them.
The first one was with a lady named Olivia. Olivia is an older
woman who we ran into while looking for a YSA member. We got talking
with her, and explained who we were. She said she has talked to
missionaries before, and we asked if they had given her a Book Of
Mormon and asked her to read it. She said they hadn't, so we gave her
one and testified that if she read from it and prayed to know of its
truthfulness, that God would answer her prayers through the power of
the Holy Ghost. We are going to meet with her next week sometime, so
we are excited for that!
We were trying to find one of the people on our list out about 45
minutes west of Cheyenne. This was after the big snow storm so the
dirt roads were terrible and muddy, and we are driving a Subaru
Legacy..... this is a bad combination! The Subaru we are in had
4-wheel drive, but it rides pretty low so it was a little sketchy at
times when the snow got a little deep. Anyways, we were trying to
visit this guy, and his long driveway was full of snow that was 4 feet
deep. We decided that wasn't the best idea to try and take the Subaru
up the driveway, so we decided to try back another time. Instead we
went to visit a less active member we didn't know that lived close.
Luckily his driveway was plowed, so we were able to walk up it and
visit with him. He is such an awesome guy! He invited us in without
hesitation, and we were able to talk with him for awhile. He is from
Southern Utah, and has lived up here for almost his whole adult life.
Turns out he builds big grand father clocks, so he showed us some
pictures of them and the main one he has built. It was so awesome to
meet him, and to be able to get to know him. We asked if there was
another time we could come back and share a little message with him,
and he said we could come next week. I hope we can help him return to
activity in the church, and I know it wasn't coincidence that we
decided to visit him. Heavenly Father definitely played a part in
having us drop by his house.
Before we visited the less active member, we were out a little
further from town trying to find another person on our list. We found
her house, but it was down a hill, and there was some melted slushy
snow, with a lot of mud going down all the way to her house. It
didn't look too bad and we weren't going to turn back, we were
determined to find this lady! We took the ol Subaru down the driveway
and made it to the house without any problems. She wasn't home, and
the house looked like it hadn't been lived in for years. We were
saddened a little by the fact she wasn't there, but that soon left as
we looked back up the driveway. Looking at our tracks, it looked
pretty terrible trying to get back up. We decided we couldn't just
sit and hope we would make it back up, we had to just go for it. So
we did. I still don't know how we made it up, but I know that there
had to be someone else pushing as we slid like crazy to make it up
this driveway. Looking back at the driveway, at our muddy tracks and
all of the snow we had gone through, it was definitely a miracle we
made it up without getting stuck. Heavenly Father was definitely
looking out for us! We are actually switching our Subaru with some
other missionaries today, and taking their car down to the Mission
Office to get it fixed. There we will pick up our new car, a Toyota
Tacoma! We definitely won't have that "getting stuck" problem
anymore! (I didn't mention it earlier, but we got stuck in the Subaru
earlier that day, but we got it out pretty easily!).
Most of our week we contacted these YSA members, because we had a
lot of lists to go through! We are almost done with all of them, but
we still have a little more to go. Well we had that crazy snow storm
on Wednesday and Thursday. For our whole Zone on Wednesday and
Thursday morning, we had a no drive day because the roads were so bad.
It was really annoying not being able to do much missionary work, I
hate being cooped up! We were able to call a lot of the YSA's on our
lists, so we got some things done. I guess in all of Cheyennes
history, this was a record setting snow! It was the most snow that
they have had so late in the year, it was crazy! It felt like it was
Christmas again, because we had just had our Mothers Day Call home,
and it was snowing like crazy! I actually kinda loved it, but it was
really annoying it deterred us from working. We live about 15 miles
out of our area, in south Cheyenne, so we couldn't do much except call
those lists. Our dinner that night came and picked us up, because
they still wanted to feed us. We had it with the Browns, they are an
older couple who have a lot of their kids living by them, so we met
the whole family! One of their grandkids was there with his newly wed
wife. Their names are Jenner and Cassandra Brown. We got talking
during dinner, and he mentioned how he worked with the Senior
Missionaries at the MTC last August and September. I asked if he knew
Nick Gubler from working in the MTC, and he said that he does and that
they are pretty good friends! How crazy is that! I have the weirdest
connections with people out here. So our mission has been pushing
Member missionary work, and we have been trained a lot on it. Our
mission leaders have told us what to do, but we have never seen it in
action. We got talking with Jenner, and he role played with us how
his mission worked with members, and how he taught the Senior
Missionaries in the MTC. It is exactly what our mission leaders have
taught us, but now I know how to do it! It was amazing! I learned so
much, and we actually role played in back to Jenner's Grandparents,
Brother and Sister Brown, and it worked very well! We have already
applied it in some of our dinners this past week, and it has worked
fantastically! The summary of how we work with members is we ask them
questions, have them do most the talking, let the Spirit work through
them, and have them decide what the best way is they can invite their
very closest friends to learn more about the Gospel. This way,
instead of forcing them to do something out of their comfort zone, we
let them decide what they think would be best. It helps the members
actually follow through with what we invite them to do. It works, and
I can't wait to apply it more in our missionary work here in Cheyenne.
I really appreciate him for showing us and helping us become greater
missionaries.
I wanted to congratulate Mike for graduating from Med School!
That's incredible, I'm so happy for you bro! Keep up the good work
down there in Texas! I love you all and hope you have a great week
this week!
Love,
Elder Bailey
1 & 2. All the snow in Cheyenne!
3. Fire Danger is crazy high in the snow!
Thursday and Friday, and we did a lot of YSA finding. Our Stake
Presidency last Sunday gave us YSA lists for all of the wards in the
Stake, and they told us to find out whether or not they still lived
there, and to invite them to a YSA barbecue that is tonight. They
said they are trying to figure out if they have enough YSA members to
start their own Ward! I'm so pumped, that would be so fun to cover a
YSA Ward! We'll see I guess. We had a lot of experiences visiting
all of these members. I will share a few of them.
The first one was with a lady named Olivia. Olivia is an older
woman who we ran into while looking for a YSA member. We got talking
with her, and explained who we were. She said she has talked to
missionaries before, and we asked if they had given her a Book Of
Mormon and asked her to read it. She said they hadn't, so we gave her
one and testified that if she read from it and prayed to know of its
truthfulness, that God would answer her prayers through the power of
the Holy Ghost. We are going to meet with her next week sometime, so
we are excited for that!
We were trying to find one of the people on our list out about 45
minutes west of Cheyenne. This was after the big snow storm so the
dirt roads were terrible and muddy, and we are driving a Subaru
Legacy..... this is a bad combination! The Subaru we are in had
4-wheel drive, but it rides pretty low so it was a little sketchy at
times when the snow got a little deep. Anyways, we were trying to
visit this guy, and his long driveway was full of snow that was 4 feet
deep. We decided that wasn't the best idea to try and take the Subaru
up the driveway, so we decided to try back another time. Instead we
went to visit a less active member we didn't know that lived close.
Luckily his driveway was plowed, so we were able to walk up it and
visit with him. He is such an awesome guy! He invited us in without
hesitation, and we were able to talk with him for awhile. He is from
Southern Utah, and has lived up here for almost his whole adult life.
Turns out he builds big grand father clocks, so he showed us some
pictures of them and the main one he has built. It was so awesome to
meet him, and to be able to get to know him. We asked if there was
another time we could come back and share a little message with him,
and he said we could come next week. I hope we can help him return to
activity in the church, and I know it wasn't coincidence that we
decided to visit him. Heavenly Father definitely played a part in
having us drop by his house.
Before we visited the less active member, we were out a little
further from town trying to find another person on our list. We found
her house, but it was down a hill, and there was some melted slushy
snow, with a lot of mud going down all the way to her house. It
didn't look too bad and we weren't going to turn back, we were
determined to find this lady! We took the ol Subaru down the driveway
and made it to the house without any problems. She wasn't home, and
the house looked like it hadn't been lived in for years. We were
saddened a little by the fact she wasn't there, but that soon left as
we looked back up the driveway. Looking at our tracks, it looked
pretty terrible trying to get back up. We decided we couldn't just
sit and hope we would make it back up, we had to just go for it. So
we did. I still don't know how we made it up, but I know that there
had to be someone else pushing as we slid like crazy to make it up
this driveway. Looking back at the driveway, at our muddy tracks and
all of the snow we had gone through, it was definitely a miracle we
made it up without getting stuck. Heavenly Father was definitely
looking out for us! We are actually switching our Subaru with some
other missionaries today, and taking their car down to the Mission
Office to get it fixed. There we will pick up our new car, a Toyota
Tacoma! We definitely won't have that "getting stuck" problem
anymore! (I didn't mention it earlier, but we got stuck in the Subaru
earlier that day, but we got it out pretty easily!).
Most of our week we contacted these YSA members, because we had a
lot of lists to go through! We are almost done with all of them, but
we still have a little more to go. Well we had that crazy snow storm
on Wednesday and Thursday. For our whole Zone on Wednesday and
Thursday morning, we had a no drive day because the roads were so bad.
It was really annoying not being able to do much missionary work, I
hate being cooped up! We were able to call a lot of the YSA's on our
lists, so we got some things done. I guess in all of Cheyennes
history, this was a record setting snow! It was the most snow that
they have had so late in the year, it was crazy! It felt like it was
Christmas again, because we had just had our Mothers Day Call home,
and it was snowing like crazy! I actually kinda loved it, but it was
really annoying it deterred us from working. We live about 15 miles
out of our area, in south Cheyenne, so we couldn't do much except call
those lists. Our dinner that night came and picked us up, because
they still wanted to feed us. We had it with the Browns, they are an
older couple who have a lot of their kids living by them, so we met
the whole family! One of their grandkids was there with his newly wed
wife. Their names are Jenner and Cassandra Brown. We got talking
during dinner, and he mentioned how he worked with the Senior
Missionaries at the MTC last August and September. I asked if he knew
Nick Gubler from working in the MTC, and he said that he does and that
they are pretty good friends! How crazy is that! I have the weirdest
connections with people out here. So our mission has been pushing
Member missionary work, and we have been trained a lot on it. Our
mission leaders have told us what to do, but we have never seen it in
action. We got talking with Jenner, and he role played with us how
his mission worked with members, and how he taught the Senior
Missionaries in the MTC. It is exactly what our mission leaders have
taught us, but now I know how to do it! It was amazing! I learned so
much, and we actually role played in back to Jenner's Grandparents,
Brother and Sister Brown, and it worked very well! We have already
applied it in some of our dinners this past week, and it has worked
fantastically! The summary of how we work with members is we ask them
questions, have them do most the talking, let the Spirit work through
them, and have them decide what the best way is they can invite their
very closest friends to learn more about the Gospel. This way,
instead of forcing them to do something out of their comfort zone, we
let them decide what they think would be best. It helps the members
actually follow through with what we invite them to do. It works, and
I can't wait to apply it more in our missionary work here in Cheyenne.
I really appreciate him for showing us and helping us become greater
missionaries.
I wanted to congratulate Mike for graduating from Med School!
That's incredible, I'm so happy for you bro! Keep up the good work
down there in Texas! I love you all and hope you have a great week
this week!
Love,
Elder Bailey
1 & 2. All the snow in Cheyenne!
3. Fire Danger is crazy high in the snow!
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