Elder Rowland August 17, 2009

This week was great, im really like working in a branch. Its always pretty interesting. We are teaching a man of about 45 years old and his mom. And everytime we go there and teach , it seems like the lord blesses us with a little more inspiration. Yesterday we brought them to church and we didnt tell anybody about his problems with drugs and things like that. And every lesson that was given in church, was about the word of wisdom! and the spirit was so strong, and it was just neat to see how the lord works. Another thing that happened yesterday was that me and my companion had to stay at home a little longer than planed because my comp has to put in eardrops for the next week , three times a day, but anyway , we marked some visits that were pretty far away and so we had to cancel thoses visits, so as we were sitting at home, he asked me " what do you want to do" its kind of hard to explain the story about the answer that i gave him but i will try. We had a great investigator that said she recieved an answer about the book of mormon and wanted to be babtised, and then one day she came outside with the book of mormon and said" my husband doesnt believe in these things and he doesnt want you guys to visit anymore. So we left the book of mormon there, crushed because she was a good one. So i said to my companion. " hey we have never talked to here husband, so lets go over there and mark a visit." then my companion gave me a few excuses not to go and then i agreed with him, then i got the feeling to just stay home for the rest of the night. And then he put on his shoes and said " Lets Go." So at first i kinda got scared because i know that her husband did not want us to visit, but we were on our way. When we arrived at the house my comp we knocked on the door and we marked a visit with him and everything went really well. So i know that we were guided by the spirit. But i love you dad, thanks so much for the package, and the funeral tape, i really need to hear it. Im loveing the mission dad.
Elder Rowland