Re: Rapping sessions in Cam Park

Ha - thanks for the explanation, Anna - and I think I even figured it out... :)  

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On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Anna McAllister <annakm@gmail.com> wrote:

The connection with Elder Sessions is pretty funny, here it is:

The elder Sessions serving where Megan is, his Grandpa Mike Sessions was in Ken's ward in New York City when Ken was a boy. And then his wife Geni was Marilyn's roommate at BYU (before she was his wife obviously, ha ha). Then after both couples were married they were friends at BYU and have kept in touch over the years. Right now Mike and Geni are living at the Elder in Megan's missions house while Geni recovers from having broken her back while on a mission in Italy. That was a really confusing sentence/paragraph.... It was like your puzzle for the day, to try and figure all that out. 

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On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Megan Reynolds <megan.reynolds@myldsmail.net> wrote:

WOW! Was conference killer or what? I had ALL of my questions answered much more clearly than I had anticipated. We asked all of our investigators to come, and cool things happened, too. We have this investigator who is SO CLOSE to being baptized. He comes to church more faithfully than some of our active members, and the other day we asked him about if he had the scriptures on his phone and he was like "yeah, and I have some other apps.. like the ensign?" What? Turns out he's downloaded like all of the apps that exist from the church. Anyway, he's a seventh day adventist, so he struggles with the fact that we worship on Sunday and not on Saturday. We've tried to explain it, but he's pretty set in his belief. and then at conference Elder Nelson Laid. It. DOWN! My jaw literally dropped (and I mean literally) and I looked at my companion and we just sat there, gaping. Our investigator was watching from his house, so I'm excited to talk with him about it :)

 

Here's a crazy sad story from this week. One of the Elders that came with me to McAllen ran away this week. We got a call from the Zone Leaders on Wednesday night, saying that he had taken his bike, withdrawn all his money, and left., so they asked us to hold a mission-wide fast. His companion (Elder Sessions, who there is some connection to through Ken McAllister, right Anna?) woke up and he was just gone. TO my knowledge he hasn't been found, or at least not in the mission. So very sad.

 

Here's a happier story :) about a week ago we met this mother named Olga, and her 17 year-old son (who just had a baby....well, his girlfriend did). They were super interested, and said we could come back the next week and her other two sons would be there, too. So we had an appointment on Friday night, and we'd been trying to find a member to come with us. We had had a goal to have 3 Members Present at a lesson before Friday night. We had already had 2 earlier in the week, so just needed one more and we had our day scheduled with the possibility of 5 before the appointment with Olga and fam, and every. single. one. fell. through. We were super determined to make the goal, so we called and called and called, and we only had 1 hour before the appointment with Olga. Finally I had the thought to ask someone from the YSA ward, and sister pickett said "Well, I only know 1 person from the YSA ward. His name is Alonsio... Is that in our phone?" So I looked, and it was, and we called, and he came. Milagros pasen, cada dia! But, the best is yet to come. We had a classic Cam Park lesson - we sat on their front porch in an assortment of chairs, (ranching from nice porch chairs, to white plastic chairs, to little tike chairs) with mexican music blasting in the background and a very loud hum of lawnmowers, with the language fluctiating between English and Spanish. We talked about the restoration, and it was a super cool lesson. As the end, they all said they wanted to get baptized! Yay! And then they said a closing prayer (which, by the way, investigators who haven't prayed ever before give the BEST prayers. I'm always blown away.) and then Daniel (the 17-year-old) said "do you want to hear a rap I made?" So he rapped for us. ABOUT THE LAW OF CHASTITY!! Like,he legit said "I know you wanna live together, but we can't cause we're still teenagers" and another line about wanting to get closer to God and having Angels sent to him. It was SOOO great. I Love The Mission.

 

Another funny story. We write our emails in a huge computer lab in the library. It's dark and quiet. But right now, there's a lady very loudly teaching people computer skills, and right now she's teaching someone how to use google. "I'm going to show you how to use Google." "What?" "Google. G. O. O. G. L. E. No, G. Hit the backspace. Okay, .com. O as in Octupus. M as in Mary. then hit the Enter button." I think I'm going to be a lot like that when I get back from my mission....

Go turn all your conference notes into PLANS this week. That was one thing I learned - Notes from conferences don't do anything for us if we don't make them into plans :)

 

Love you all! Have a safe week :)
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