110 wings.
What a breath of fresh air...it reminds me of those Montana sunsets
Dear friends and family,
It has been yet another fantastic week and the work here in Bloomingdale is progressing faster and faster. We found two new investigators this week and we are staying pretty busy.
I'll stick to just a few things today to try to keep these emails a little shorter but man, were there some stories made this week.
Last preparation day (sorry, it's kind of a big jump back) Elder Hale decided to spend his $75 worth of gift cards to Buffalo Wild Wings on 110 wings. We brought them back to our apartment for lunch, invited the Bloomingdale English Elders, and then feasted. We wanted to be a little brave, so we decided to get a couple of the Blazin Wings, which are the hottest hot wing that they sell. Let's just say that 1. I dont handle deathly spicy food very well, and 2. That the only place that hot sauce hurts worse than in your mouth, in in your eye...
The other super cool experience we had this week reminded me of President Uchdorf's talk, 4th Floor, Last Door, because that's totally what happened. We had been tracting these Spanish apartments nicknamed, El Monterey all night and had not found a single person who was interested. Finally, and I guess it was just the 3rd floor, but we found this woman, Cristiana, who actually let us teach her a little and we even set up a return appointment with her. She was the last door we planned on knocking and it truly was a miracle! Maybe this week we'll get another couple of new investigators as well.
Saturday was kind of a rough day. Our car was towed for no reason, Elder Hale's card got shut down when we tried to pay for it, we accidently called the mission president when we were trying to call the vehicle coordinator and he wasn't very happy, and all of our lessons fell through. We kind of beat ourselves up over it, asking what we did wrong but then we looked back on the day, it was cool to see that everything happened for a reason. If our car wouldn't have been towed we wouldn't have asked a member who was having a rough time, and who needed to talk to someone, to give us a ride. We also just so happened to get back at the perfect time to meet up with the English Elders and give them a ride so they didn't have to walk in the freezing cold. We were also then, with the English Elders, able to all be together at the exact time a member whose wife just had a baby, needed some service done for him.
I love the Mormon message, You Never Know, and I encourage all of you to watch it because it's so true. Sometimes the struggles and trials that we go through aren't to punish us, but it's to help others who need special help at that time. God has a plan, and in the end, all things work together for them that trust in the Lord...even if you have to pay $170 to get your car back because your companions card is locked down.
God bless you all,
Elder Arkoudas
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