March 23, 2015
Dear Family,
I am doing better than I was last
week for sure. The blog sounds great, and thanks for sending me some
things, I'll let you know when they get here. I want to say I am eating healthier but I definitely am not. I have eaten a lot of bagels. The
food here is mostly the same as at home.
Role playing, even though I don't really like it it is helping me a lot,
I actually can talk to people now. I
have come to find that I am making it harder than it should be to talk
to people. So, my week consisted
of shoveling so much snow for people, it was ridiculous (Mosiah 2:17).
We did have a few lessons and I loved meeting with the Thompson's.
Brother Thompson is a collector of old things, mostly war artifacts like
guns, swords, outfits, radios, and all these awesome things. I feel
like I already told you this. Oh well, it is awesome so hear it again. I
think I am finally used to the weather and am worried about going back
to the gross AZ heat. Sunday is my favorite day of the week so far and I
finally got to go to church yesterday. It just flew by. Why? Church
used to go slowly at home. One of the speakers did not show up to church
and five minutes before sacrament meeting they asked me to speak in her
place. Aah! It went pretty well though, even though it was short. Sam
Smith, who I met in the last week, had his farewell last night and we
went so I could get to know more of the ward and we could set up more
appointments in the week. We are working hard to have good relationships
with the ward members because apparently in the past they had trouble
with some missionaries. Sam is going to Calgary, Canada on his mission. Love and miss you guys, you are all
definitely in my prayers.
Love, Elder Ray
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| This is the Halifax Temple, which is actually right next to the church building and is a really small temple. |
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| Elder Ray shared, "This is our car, well what's left of it." |
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| This is the view out Elder Ray's apartment window |
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| Elder Ray |
Logan's companion, Elder McGuire shared this story on his blog:
And
now, the most spiritual experience of my mission. Our investigator
Sandy has a huge driveway. We got about 5 feet of snow. Sandy couldn't
get out of her house to buy food for her children because the snow was
too deep. She didn't have enough money for a plow or family in the area
to help her. Thus, it was up to Elder Ray and I to dig a path for her to
get out and get some food. After hours upon hours of shoveling, going
back several days we finally got her shoveled out. She just called
me last P-day in the middle of email time just crying like she was
suffocating in her house because she didn't have any food for her
children. She was in panic mode. Makes me cry right now even just typing
this. But we shoveled the whole thing. 5 feet at a time up the whole
driveway. Sandy got out of her house and now has food. Such a huge
highlight for my life. In the past I never really felt like I had helped
anyone in a major way. This experience changed that. I still can't
believe what we did. It was certainly the Spirit who carried us. We got
her dug out and now she can come to church and meet with us again.
Thank you for your prayers. My physical strength is increasing with all
of the people we have had to shovel out. I now
have a new love for snow shoveling.
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| This is the path Elder McGuire and Elder Ray started digging |
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| Elder Ray taking a break. (Sandy's house is not the blue one, it is the one farthest away) |
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| This is the path as they got closer to her house |
