We got transfer info today. I've only been here a transfer, but I'm already
leaving. I'm actually transferring up to the Farmington North stake, so I'm just
going like a mile or two up the road. Again, if I was leaving, it's the opposite
of where I was hoping to go, but whatever. I guess I'll figure out pretty soon
what the Lord has in mind.
We had some miracles this week. We were out with Elder Delgado again and we
didn't have any lessons scheduled. We were driving around again trying to figure
out what to do when we decided to stop by one of our ward mission leaders. We
knocked on his door, and and he was on the phone, and was like "Oh good, the
missionaries just showed up. We'll be right over". Our WML in that ward, Brother {}, is an addiction doctor and he does the detox work, so the medical side
of addiction recovery. Turns out one of his patients had literally just called
him and was asking for help. Our WML needed someone to go with him and had been
praying for someone to come help him rigt when we showed up. We hopped in the
car and drove over to the lady's house.
It took her a few minutes to get the door open, that's how drunk she was. She
finally got the door open, but wouldn't let us in. I think she saw three
missionaries and got scared. Anyways, that didn't work out (our plan was just to
go over there and help her pour her liquor down the sink IDK exactly what she
was drinking, but whatever it was, it was something strong. You could smell it
as soon as she opened the door). We were a little disappointed because it seemed
like the Spirit had set it up perfectly for us. Turns out it did, but not in the
way we were expecting. Elder Delgado and Brother {} got talking, and
Brother {}told him about another family in his ward, the{} family, a
younger married couple that had been clean from meth for about five years. We
decided to go visit them. We were all thinking about what we would say, becuase
we didn't want to show up and be like, "hey, so we heard you used to do
meth..." We still weren't sure exactly what the game plan was when we knocked on
the door, but went for it anyways. We said hey, and introduced Elder Delgado.
He started talking about his mission, and I forget how it came up, but once the
fact that these guys we recovering meth addicts was out in the open, Elder
Delgado invited them to strongly consider serving in his mission and becoming
facilitators for the group meetings because he knew the experiences they had
with the Atonement could benefit a lot of people. It wasn't at all what I was
expecting, but as soon as he said it the spirit was there to back it up, and it
felt perfectly right. I talked to Delgado about it later and he said that he
didn't know that that's what he was going to say until we started knocking. He
said he thought it was weird, too, but the Spirit firmly told him that's what he
needed to do, so he did it. It's pretty crazy how the Spirit works, and how a
lot of the time we don't know what's going to happen, but when we trust in the
promptings we receive and follow them, miracles happen.
I know that this work is amazing. I know that the atonement is real and
that it's powerful. I love this work. I know God loves us. Love you all!
Elder Jake Lusk
