Moments from a Missionary

Greetings everyone, Hope you Easter went well...we have just been having an absolute blast here in the NOKE! The photograph above I thing fairly accurately illustrates us at the end of each day, happy, tired, a little delirious, tired did I mention tired...but happy excited and loving every moment! This was also one of the moments when I was like wait, hold that look and grabbed my camera to capture the moment let me start this letter by sharing a few funny stories. One night this week we got in after a busy day out and about all day, didn't come back to the apartment once...we got in, made some plans and I was laying on the floor in our living room with my feet up on the chair and was so tired it was no time at all that I was out cold...I woke up around  11:15pm  and tried to make my way to the bedroom where Elder Little was already fast asleep...However upon trying to move my legs I discovered that they had completely "fallen asleep" I managed to lift my legs ...

So much happened this past couple of weeks and it feels like time just keeps moving faster and time to type gets shorter, I will do my best to sum up a few of the highlights of the weeks. Exchange with Cave Spring Elders/Elder MacDonald's Surgery - An elder in our district Elder MacDonald had been suffering from some headaches and major dizziness for a week or so after some usual remedies didn't work he was recommended to go see a doctor, who after learning his heart rate was dangerously low, he was shortly admitted to Lewis Gale Hospital. The gave us a call shortly after and we met them at the hospital. As this all unfolded it was concluded that Elder MacDonald needed a pacemaker...All went well and after 3 days He was able to return to missionary service and did not have to go home:) As I watched all this unfold I was amazed at how many people involved were touched in little ways. One of the largest was the opportunity to Elder Wilkinson to feel the fulfillment of support...

Another week come and gone with the wind...wild, I am getting very excited for this last transfer of my mission it is going to be the Grand Finale! My heart literally gets beating faster with excitement both for the awesome stuff we have going on here in the mission and for returning home when the time comes... So I am short on time this week because we have have had to detail clean our car because it has reached 50,000 miles and is being taken up to Charleston  tomorrow,  and will be replaced by a brand new car! Whoot whoot...final transfer bonus, haha. (I mean all the mission vehicles are practically brand new anyhow, but this will be the newest car I have ever driven) ​First of all thank you everyone for the all the birthday cards it was awesome to get so many for a whopping grand total of 26! that is impressive...our mail man we ran into him the day after my birthday and he saw my name tag and said "happy birthday by the way" haha. They are all awesome! ​Birth...

Dearest All  Another fantastic week, the momentum keeps building here in the Great Noke! so Updates on a few people C.C. - I mentioned her last week when we met with her at dinner  on Monday . She came to our district meeting where I asked her and L.K. to role play with missionaries some teaching situations and skills...they both put my missionaries to the test! It was a great district meeting we all learned from the spirit and especially the investigator and recent convert guests from our ward and a couple other wards. Learning from them what was effective when they were taught and listening to their experiences and conversions.  We also had an incredibly powerful lesson with her  on Thursday ...C.C. is truly incredible, I am thoroughly impressed by her...we covertly asked her all of the baptism interview questions and the member we had along with us H.H. bore a powerful and pure testimony of the blessings that she will receive from Baptism and the love of ...

Dearest All Do you all realize after today that there will only be 10 more P-day emails in my mission, that is nuts! That being said I better make the most of them, I hope that my emails can express my love to all my family and friends at home and those I have met and come to love in my mission...and there are so many of you. I don't know what I am going to do without this weekly account to review my week, it will be strange but I imagine Facebook will fill that void. Well the week was amazing where to start. ​Lets start here...let me introduce L.K....She is pretty much a missionaries dream, she is a solid recent convert of about 6 months, she is tenacious (even more than me and that is saying something) Super excited to share the gospel and is active in that desire to share the gospel, she had been out of town my first two weeks here and so for a while she was just this mystical shadow that I wasn't sure was actually real or not. But turns out she is real and she is...