March 19, 2018

Family,

Wednesday was a pretty good day. It was not so productive for missionary work, but it was still good. We were able to go and do service for someone for the first time in a long time which was nice. We went and helped a family spread mulch in their yard. It was nice to get out and work for a little bit and hopefully now that the weather is getting better we will be able to have more opportunities to serve. I'll tell ya what though I'm out of shape!! We only got to help for like an hour before we had to go to interviews with President and I woke up so sore the next morning. haha

We had interviews with President Rasmussen this week and those are always super good... but way long! We have to coordinate all of the interview times and then wait while everyone gets interviewed so we were there from 12:30 until 5:30. But it's nice because we get to see everyone in the zone as they come through and just see how everyone is doing.

On Thursday as we were planning to go tracting we were looking where we have not been and we have done a ton of finding so we have knocked like all of the neighborhoods and things like that. So most of what we haven't knocked are like long driveways with mansions at the end of them right on the lake. There are a ton of them. That is like what our area is. So we felt like we should go to this one specific area. I was honestly kinda dreading it because you know that scripture "it's easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle then a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." ?

... Yeah well I've seen that to be true here. A lot of the people in this area are pretty well off and comfortable and not interested in changing. 

We went up to this house that was sweet! It was massive and had a huge yard on the lake. They had a tree house that went like 40 feet up into the trees with a slide from the top down into the lake. It was pretty cool. Well we met this lady at the door named (C) she was in her 40's and was just a nice lady. She recognized who we were immediately and just kinda lead the conversation and brought up the Book of Mormon and had a ton of false ideas of what the Book of Mormon is. She asked a ton of questions and then she would let us answer! Oh...  it's so nice when people will let us answer their questions. We were able to explain and answer her questions and by the end of our conversation she was asking for a Book of Mormon and our names and phone number!! It was super cool. The Book of Mormon is so powerful and when people actually understand what it is they will read it. And it will bless there lives. 

Saturday I met the most Christlike lady of all time! Besides mom. But we were out visiting less active members that we didn't know and we came to a house that looked just like a regular house and we knocked on the door and we were looking for a lady named (T) When we knocked the door was answered by an older autistic gentlemen and as I looked in I could see it wasn't an ordinary home but like an assisted living for autistic people. A nurse came to the door who is a gal from Kenya. We asked for (T) It was kinda funny because she pointed and said that's (T). We looked over and an old autistic lady in her 50's came running straight at us with her arms in the air crying and yelling "Brothers! Brothers!" she gave us hugs -  it was funny. She wanted us to take her to lunch but we obviously couldn't. We got talking to the lady from Kenya named (L) and she lives in this home and takes care of 8 autistic adults. 24/7. They call her mom. She was constantly busy helping them with things. I don't know how she does it, but it was the coolest thing I've seen! She has more charity then anyone. It was awesome. We were talking to her briefly and she has a strong faith in Christ and loves the bible. We talked about prophets with her and she is interested in learning more so we will be going back next week!!

That was about it for this week. I love you all and hope you have a good week!

Tell dad happy birthday again!! 

Elder Ethan Wayne Stucki