Female Apostles :)

February 6, 2017

Wow! What a week!
This has been just Awesome!

Saturday was a day of service! We really want A. to be able to make it to church, but she can't right now because her car needs 2017 tags. In order to be tag worthy it needs to be running properly. She got a part from autozone and Elder Dickson knows a bit about cars, so we replaced that part on car! It was great learning a little bit more about cars from him. But unfortunately the replaced part didn't quite fix the car. So she's going to take the car in to autozone again to get it checked. After fixing A.'s car we helped a new family move into the ward for a couple hours. After that we did service at the L.'s house for a couple hours. They are getting tile put in the whole house and needed everything moved out. They are going to live in a camper for a week while the tile is being laid. So we helped them out. That night we spent some time with M. and the R. family. They cooked us some delicious Mexican food. :)

R. came to church! T., his girlfriend was sick so she was not able to come. He was so excited to have come three times in a row so that he could be a regular and not a visitor anymore! We were so excited for him too! ;) R., the man whose backyard we cleaned out came to church as well! He even got up and bore his testimony at church! He is so kind and funny! In his talk he said he's taking baby steps, but afterword he told us he's going to start reading the Book of Mormon. Wow, coming to church and reading the Book of Mormon are not baby steps. :) He's so awesome!

Recently I've been experiencing some really cool personal revelation! I have just felt impressed often as we have visited people what we should teach/discuss the next time we come. We were visiting with a less-active man a few days ago, and I had a strong impression that when we came back the next time we should really help him begin to pray and read the scriptures each day. I have had other promptings with other people as well. It is so wonderful and humbling to feel Heavenly Father working through me!

Funny story:

We taught A. about Modern-day Prophets and Apostles this past week. We had mentioned it before, but never in great detail. This time we talked specifically about the current Prophet and Apostles and brought a conference Ensign to show her. We also watched some Mormon Messages with her. It was all going great until she said "I met an apostle once. She told me about my whole past." She then went on to tell us a long story about this female apostle that she talked to. Elder Dickson and I were just like "Uhhhhhh." We then went on to explain that we only have 12 apostles and how they are all men and called by God. Haha it was pretty funny.

We passed K. off to the YSA Elders. He has been in and out of town for a long time, and we were finally able to meet with him this week! It was a great lesson, and we just committed him to pray each day, looking for answers to his prayers.

I'll send pictures later today. Have a wonderful week! Love you all!

Elder Petrie