Well Hello!! This week has been so
crazy!! I have to tell you though, it has been really long and rough. I
just have had a lot of experiences this week that have helped me a lot.
It was really neat. I got a letter from dad a couple weeks ago
saying drink deeply - fill up that spiritual resevoir. I can tell you
that I have been. Some things have really helped me grow this week and
for the rest of my mission.
One experience is with an investigator Janet.
She has a Spanish husband and she is meeting with us at her work, so he
doesn´t know. He is really against everything. Our lesson was on
the plan of salvation and during the lesson, she stops me and Elder Woodbury
and says "Do you really believe this is true? Do you really know?"
I was taken back because to be honest, I´ve never gotten that question
before on my mission. I spoke up saying yes I do, I know for a fact that
this is true. I told her that I knew that the Plan God has for us is
perfect, there is nothing wrong with it. I went on with more of my
testimony of the Plan of Salvation. But just that night I was reflecting
on my day and that experience just really hit me hard. The second story
is about the Book of Mormon. Everyday I testify that this book is true
and has answers for all of our questions, if we just read it, pray about it,
and ask God if it is true. One study day I was reading in Helaman.
Something just hit me like a rock to the head. Just something very
strong came over me. I had a feeling to pray. I wasn´t sure why,
but I did. During that prayer just the feeling of how blessed I was to
have this book, In my hands, right at that moment. After that when I
express my testimony about it, just this joy comes over me, I feel like I am on
cloud nine.
That leads into my last story. We have this great
investigator Herling. He is Dominican and sometimes they are wishy washy, but I
tell you what, He isn´t. :) Yesterday actually, we were watching
the Joseph Smith movie with him. It is a short 20min video about the
Restoration. At the part when the first vision happens, he said he feels
something strange, like a shiver down he back. After the movie was over
we asked him how he felt. Our member there did as well. He just looks
at us, and just starts to cry. The joy that he now knows just hit him
like a brick. He was saying that he felt different. I told him that
I know how he feels exactly:) Right after telling him that that was the
Spirit we asked him about this and that, then I had the prompting to ask him to
prepare himself for baptism. Elder Woodbury had the same prompting and
asked him. He was so happy that we asked, he said yes, a firm yes.
He said he would do whatever he needs to do:) The funny thing is.
Herling lifts... a lot. Like he is big, short but very wide. He
could punch through me if he wanted. Just seeing him cry and having this
joy just made me feel so happy.
Well, those were just some of the
experiences that I had this week. Well I just want to say that I have a food
story. Okay, so we were at our mission leaders home for lunch. He
puts on our plates, some nice yam, potato, and onion mix. Very good, but
then he puts on these short ribs. With a good 1/2inch thick piece of fat
on it. Of course I get the biggest ones and are just filled with fat.
I am sad to say, I ate a good chunck of fat from both, I couldn´t get all
of that down, but the other sad part is that there wasn´t a lot of meat on
them. :( So I had a good fatty ribs for lunch :/
Well this week was
good. We had a really good pday also. We went to the GoKart Track
and raced!! AHHH YEAHHH!!! And yes this was allowed. The AP´s asked
president and he said it okay to do that. This wasn´t the Rinky Dink
cars, these were for rrreal gokarts. The nice ones that can take a sharp
turn. Well we went on and they make us put on jump suits and helments,
the full deal here. Well I was in the first spot, I thought this was going to
be a slow car. Ohhh how I was wrong. We were flying!! I was a
little too big for the car, but I was still flying by people and drifting, all
that stuff. I believe the fastest I got was a good 40mph on that bad boy
:) hahah How cool is that!! Yeah it was awesome. the track was really
nice too, It wasn´t long, just a lot of turns:) Well everything was good,
it was a long week though. A lot of good experiences that really helped
me out, but at the same time, just a long week. It was rough, hard, and I
believe it was a good 100º out a couple of days, but at the end of the day, I
could say I put my best work in. I love you all so much and I hope that
all is going well. I have been praying that Mandy will have her baby!! I
love you all!!
Love,
Elder Alex Laubaugh (lobo):) Love you all so
much!!
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