So today is Canadian Thanksgiving. I think at least. That's what I was told so I figured I might as well pass it on. Today is also Columbus Day. I love the weird holidays of October.
We had leadership meeting this past week. Let me just say the church is awesome and I'm so grateful to be in Montana at the moment. More to come in following weeks.
This week was pretty much awesome. It truly is a week of seeing the Lord's hand in preparing people. First of all, we had a really good visit with the KM family. Elder King had told me about them, but we had never had a chance to really sit down and talk with them so this was a neat chance. He has a good heart and has a growing belief in the gospel. We are excited to keep working with them.
Allow me to pose a question; how do you get a cat that is up 200 ft. up a tree down? That was the question that puzzled us last night. We went to check up on the M family and they were trying to get their cat out of a tree. We eventually gave up and went inside which was awesome. We had a really good visit and they offered to feed us dinner this week. Pretty cool, and also really prepared.
This past week we also began working with the U family. I'm not sure if I talked about them last week, so just in case here is their story. They are a part member family in which two of the kids are members and the dad and daughter are not members. Well both of them have a desire to get baptized and they came to church. When they came they brought a guy that lives with them and all that he knew about the church was the South Park episode about the First Vision. So we taught the first lesson and things went well.
The scripture for the week goes along with the theme that God is preparing people. It is 1st Nephi 13:12. This is Nephi seeing Columbus being prepared to come and discover America. So as you celebrate Columbus Day, remember that were it not for the Lord, in 1492 he would not have sailed the ocean blue.
Keep going strong and work hard.
Elder Wixom
