This week was amazing. I'm officially 3 months in and 1/8 of the way through my mission. Time is flying by. I love being in Texas and can feel God guiding me along the way everyday.
We started doing service for an elderly widow in our ward named Sister Kuttler. She is the absolute most sweetest woman I have ever met. She lives on 12 acres and has lots of projects we help her with. She cooks us lunch and then sits and talks with us on the porch. We love it. She has lived such a crazy life such as living in Kenya and Colombia and has so many stories about it that she loves to tell us. She works in the temple every week and just makes our Wednesdays a light in the week. She truly brings light into our lives.
One of our investagators named Morgan is working on Prayer. We have been teaching her for as long as I have been in College Station. She is so sweet and loves having us over. This week we invited her to pray out loud with us for the first time ever. She has never felt comfortable enough to do it but finally did this week. The prayer was short and simple but the spirit was there like no other. I love how Heavenly Father loves when we pray or communicate with Him. Prayers are the way for us to talk to our Father. We challenged her to pray more and to always talk with Heavenly Father and He will answer you.
On Tuesday, we had an appointment bail on us. We were unsure which apartment the appointment was at so we decided to knock all the letter doors with the letter that he gave us. After knocking we found no one but were walking back to the car and saw a man. We ran up to him and he started talking to us. He told us he was in a dark place and his mom told him that God was going to be sending help. And that night we showed up.
After talking with him we quickly realized that he had some serious life issues that he had been struggling to put behind him. We prayed with him and made a goal to help him. We even went and dumped out all the bottles that had been causing his issue. We stop by every night and pray with him and try to help him fight the addiction he has. It has made me grow up quick. This is a real child of our Heavenly Father and we were sent to help him. Sometimes I have no idea how to help him but I just try to bring Christ into his life. It is a process but through Christ I know his life can be made whole again. I feel like a little kid who hasn't experienced the world sometimes out here, but I can tell that I'm supposed to be helping the people I met. It for sure is maturing me fast.
In stake conference this past week the stake president told us that we must get eye to eye with everyone we try to help. We need to see their issues with their eyes. The Savior saw people that way and we have to do that too to help them along. I have really tried to do that more with our investagator and have found way more love for him. As I look eye to eye with everyone I can feel the pains and sorrows they feel, but the good news is that we share a message to help fix those through the Savior.
This week I have started reading the New Testament more. I love reading about the Savior and the example He gave to us. He was the perfect being who can always pick us up when we need it. I am so thankful for all that my Savior did and does for me daily.
One quote I heard this week at stake conference was "Be grateful in the good times, be faithful in the bad times, be joyful always." We can all use this in our lives no matter what point we are at. I pray we can always draw closer to our Father and be grateful, faithful, and joyous in our lives. Lives are changing in College Station Texas, especially my own life.
Love y'all and God Bless.
Elder Jarrett Pinster
We found kittens while tracting but Elder Troy wouldn't let me keep them. Kinda bummed . . . :)
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