Guided by the Spirit

Hi Jared,

Did you get your new bike? I sent off the payment, so everything should be good. Please remember to lock it up with the lock they provided.

As you can imagine, this was a busy week, since it was the end of the school year. We were privileged to attend Honors Night at the school for Mikayla. She is a great student and was recognized for her amazing grades. We are really proud of her. Hallie is going to be the same way. She likes getting straight A's. They are much easier than boys who are accustomed to getting one-legged A's.

My bike ride was a lot of fun. I hope you got the pics of your dad and sisters dressed as hippies. Holy cow! That was funny. Taylor, as usual, avoided the camera, and there is no actual photo evidence that I really participated, so you're just going to have to take my word for it. No big crashes this year, and we were blessed that it was overcast for the first 50 miles, so it all turned out great! Love, Peace, Ride!

We are making final preparations for trek. I might be in a full fledged panic by tonight because there is still so much to do, but come Wednesday morning it won't matter anymore. We'll be off on a bus and ready for another adventure.

Mikayla is doing summer school his year. I just dropped her off at Woods Cross. She's taking Biology. I've heard that is a really fun class.

Well, I'd better get busy, time's a ticking. I love you and we never quit praying for your success and safety. Have another awesome week.

Love,

Mom


Hello,
 
Yes, I got the new bike and I'm locking it up all the time.
 
This week has been pretty crazy. We've had a lot of things happen. Transfers happened on Wednesday. Elder Tobler and I stayed, but one of the Elders in our apartment left. So, Elder Matthews, one of the Elders covering Westfield got a new companion who has been out for three months and has been struggling with some things. He ended up going home on Saturday morning. Poor guy. This is where things get really confusing... So, to replace this elder another elder that was in a tri-panionship in Avon got emergency transferred here. That elder is Elder Rawlins, he's on a mini-mission right now. He has a mild form of autism so they let him serve a three month mission here to see if he could handle it. He can, so he got a call to a mission in Washington. So, because he got emergency transferred here, he's now serving in his home ward until the 11th when he leaves for the MTC. After the 11th, Elder Tobler, Matthews and I will be serving together covering both areas for the next few weeks until another elder who broke his ankle comes back from recovering at home to be Elder Matthews' new companion. So because of this strange situation We had to do a little exchange on Sunday for church because Elder Rawlins can't be in the building his home ward is in. He and I went to a ward in Fishers while Elder Matthews and Elder Tobler went to church in Carmel and Westfield.  
 
So, that's the situation right now, and it's a little crazy here. We've had a very productive week.
 
We've had a lot of situations where we've really been guided on what we need to be doing. Most days this week we've had something unexpected come up and because of it, we haven't had time to do all that we planned for. On Friday we were stressing all day trying to find a member to go with us to an appointment that was ten miles away. We couldn't get there without a member because we don't have the car, and nobody was answering our calls. Our appointment ended up canceling on us, so we had to find something else to do instead. I had the thought to stop by a family we found tracting. We rode over there and they let us right in. We taught them the Restoration and it was great. They were really accepting! Tony and Sarah are an amazing couple.
Another time, it happened the next day. We had something come up that took away a lot of our afternoon, so we had to pick what plans we would use. We decided on visiting a less-active family we can barely ever get in contact with. We shared a short message about the ressurrection and what do you know? It was exactly what she needed to hear to comfort a friend.
 
And...it happened for a third time yesterday! We had originally planned to take a dinner break late in the evening but the Bishop of the Westfield ward invited us all over for dinner. After dinner we had about an hour and fifteen minutes to go somewhere. We decided to stop by Keith, and investigator we haven't been able to meet with because he's always flying out of town for work. We stopped by at just the right time and caught him home. We had a great lesson with him and the spirit was strong. We invited him to be baptized once he knew what we were sharing was true and he accepted!
 
This week has been full of amazing spiritual experiences. We're seeing a lot of progress in the area right now. I know that it's all building up right now, and soon, we're going to have a lot of people progressing. I know this work is true.
 
Love you,
 
 
Jared