Happy Father's day to any and all fathers that are reading this :)
Like pretty much always, this week was good! On Monday,
we had dinner with one of the families in the Ward, and while we were
there, the father asked if we would be able to help him with something
the next day. As missionaries, we are always happy to do service for
people, and also just for the fact that we are missionaries, and we
can't really say no to anyone if the need our help, we said
"Of course we'd be happy to help you!" So he next day, we get
picked up, and we find out that we are going to be helping him build a
tree fort for his grandson. Sweet! We were pretty excited about that, so
we happily spent a few hours with him putting together an idea that was
floating around in his mind. We never used any plans, we just went by
the seat of our pants, and by the time we left, it was pretty much
awesome! :) It wasn't done, but it was legit anyway.
We were able to have a really good lesson with a
less-active lady named Amber that moved back into the Ward boundaries,
and referred herself on mormon.org
because she is really wanting to get back into the church, especially
because she has a 2 year old son, and she really wants him to be raised
in the church, and she totally still knows that the church is true,
which is awesome. We brought along one of the members of the Ward that
is going to be leaving on his mission this month, so we've been trying
to get stuff set up to bring him along with us so he could get a little
more of some mission experience before he leaves. We taught about the
Plan of Salvation, and we asked him before hand if he would teach about
the Spirit World. When the time came, he did, and it was awesome! He
taught it so well! He's totally going to be a bomb missionary. Amber
wasn't able to make it to church yesterday because she had already
planned to spend a few hours with her dad-which were right during the
hours of church, but she is really motivated to come this week!
One of the Less-Active guys that we are working with
(The one that was part of the coolest experience of my mission) kind of
went through a melt down with people in his life, and was ready to do
some overly drastic things (Like move out of the country) but after
visiting with him for like 2 hours, he went down to wanting to move out
West, and then to trying to patch relationships here. A couple of hours
after we left, he texted us and told us that things got smoothed over,
and that things should be working out a lot better now. Another thing
that we stressed with him, is that he need to give 100% to the gospel,
and everything will work out. He took that to heart, and he is planning
on doing that from now on!
I had to get my bike fixed this week...again. It ran
me about $180 dollars. I realized that I am now comfortably over $1000
into my bike. It's pretty sad. I've owned 4 cars, and none of them (At
least up front) have cost as much as my mission bike. Hopefully this fix
will give it another good amount of life. We'll see. I just got the
front shocks changed, because the old ones were moving back and forth,
instead of just up and down... Not the safest thing in the world, and I
don't want another broken finger from a bike accident on my mission.. :)
But the weird thing is, now I want to get a sweet $1000+ dollar
mountain bike when I go home.. It doesn't make a lot of sense, but
fortunately, I still have lots of time to not worry about it :)
Anyways, that about sums up my week :)
Thanks for reading!
~Elder Roderer
Here's a picture part way through building the tree fort :)
Elder Patrik Roderer
42215 Carriage Cove Cir.
Bldg. 20 #203
Canton, MI 48187
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