Good morning everyone!
This week was another crazy week down here in the
Greybull/Basin area!
To start off, this week, we got invited this last Monday
by some recent converts of ours, the Frames, to go and play volleyball with
them! Apparently someone there was interested in the gospel so the last elders
that were here were playing trying to get to know them, and had a lesson set up
but then transfers happened. Anyways, while they didn't show up, we met some
other people who might be interested! But ya, me. Volleyball. No
coordination. It was interesting. :) The
funny thing is my companion took off for the other team, the one with the Frames and a few older players. And he put me on the team with a bunch of young
girls. Unfortunately they weren't exactly the best players.
And they were way better than me, so it was really funny.
My team and I just spent the entire time laughing or telling me that apparently
you can't do certain things in volleyball, like kick it. :) Anyways ya! It was
fun!
Tuesday was service almost all day, it was awesome!
Wednesday we spent most of it in Lovell with the Elders
there because Elder Ison needed to go to the doctor for the pain in his back.
Man I have bad knees, he's got a bad back, we bring a whole new meaning to the
term "elders" :).
Thursday we actually had quite a lot of lessons with
less-actives who seem to now finally be progressing! It's so awesome! We have
one in particular Frank, who is basically struggling with the idea of Faith. He thinks about everything logically and has to prove
everything to himself. Our next lesson will probably be reading Alma 32 and
challenging him to pray. Honestly it's amazing what miracles happen when people
sit down, read the scriptures, and pray. When people do that, all of the
miracles happen in their lives :)
On Friday we got to go out with Bro. Cheatham and go and
do service for a less-active named Boyd. He had a giant pivot (a giant water sprinkler thing with wheels) break down on his
farm so we got to go out here and help him get it unstuck. It was actually a
ton of fun and my companion even got to talk with him a lot so hopefully we now
have a solid connection. :) Also on Friday we also met a new family that we
will hopefully be teaching tomorrow! They live right next door to some members
and the members told us to basically just leave a Book of Mormon on her
doorstep and see if she is interested. Well thankfully she was outside when we
went over so we got to meet her and her kids and discuss the gospel a little
bit!
Saturday. Now here's where it gets interesting :)
Saturday morning we went and did some service for a
less-active in our ward, sister Shepard. She has a ton of old dead trees in her
front yard that we got to help cut down! It was awesome! Tons of hard work though
because we weren't allowed to use any power tools so we both just went to town
using saws and actually did quite a ton of work! Eventually another less-active family (who is friends
with her) came over with a chainsaw and helped us take down some of the bigger
stuff, we just had to climb up, tie a rope to it, and pull the rope in the
direction that we wanted em to fall. The best part was that not only did we
really help her out and get that all taken care of for her, but she even came
to church the next day! Even after she told my companion that she might not
because of how exhausted she was! It was seriously an awesome miracle!
Also Saturday we finally headed back out to Ten-Sleep!
Unfortunately we weren't able to get too much done Saturday night, our lesson
with that new investigator over there fell through, :/ so we decided to go tracting. Eventually, just as it was getting close to 9:00 and we were heading
back to our car, we knocked into some members. Now real quick funny side story.
Originally the plan was that the Ten-Sleep bishop was going to arrange with
some members to house had for the night while we were up there. Well we
unfortunately we never able to get a hold of him (there was a minor family
emergency that may or may not have involved hitch hiking, thankfully everyone
is safe and ok) so we decided that we would just camp out at the church! We
figured a couple of couches, plus a giant supply of living scriptures videos.
We were set. :) Thankfully however the member that we ran into found out
about our plan, and got some housing arranged for us. We stayed in this amazing
ranch house in the attic. No joke the attic totally reminded me of Mary Poppins. At least the layout of the bedroom did. It was awesome! Possibly one of the best parts though was
waking up to a sunrise over a giant grassy field with Red mountains in the
background. I was in paradise. It was gorgeous!
But ya, that was about our week! Oh! I almost forgot! On
Sunday we had another awesome lesson with Bro. Ledford! Following up with him
he read a ton of his scriptures this week and was definitely excited to get
back into them in our lesson. While unfortunately it didn't sound like he was
going to be making it to church the next few weeks, he said that One of these
weeks he would make it. He will get re-activated one of these days I know it!
But ya, that's about it, now all I have to do is convince
my family to all move down here so I can still be close to them after my
mission :).
Oh!
Did I tell you some awesome news? Bro. Cheatham, the member that we are living
with, just told me that when I come back, he will teach me how to Fly! I've
been secretly hoping that it would be a possibility since especially he is an
awesome flight instructor (his wife likes to brag about him even if he doesn't
like it) :) he even has a little special thing on his flight instructor license
that apparently only 5% of people have or something like that. But ya. :) I can
totally learn how to fly post mission if I want to. :)
This week I have been studying a ton on humility and on repentance. Concerning humility, I love Preach My Gospel. Oddly while
studying it this week, I found that this was a section that I honestly hasn't
read too much up on. :/ It was awesome! In Preach My Gospel it referenced Ether
12:27 and I think this is one that I've talked about before recently but studying
it with the question in mind "How can I be more humble?" It was amazing! I am so
thankful that we all have a loving Heavenly Father who KNOWS that we have
weaknesses, that we make mistakes. That's why he provided his son, and because
of Jesus Christ, we can use the repentance process to truly change ourselves.
To become better disciples and sons and daughters of God. Brothers and sisters
I KNOW that as we humbly ask our father in prayer how we can improve, and what
our next step is, he will guide us to it and then HELP us change and accomplish
it.
I love you All!
Never give up, Never Surrender!
-Elder Berrett
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