Monday, July 29th, 2019

Kansas City, Kansas

Zone Conference 

Elder Hamby on the far left on the day of the baptism from last week

Funny for the week - Translation: Please help us keep Lake Welborn clean. 
Private Lake. No fishing. 

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This week was definitely one for the books.

On Monday I had a prompting, while driving, to pull over and knock this house. Honestly, I pushed it off, just thinking it was me spazzin out, but we did it anyways. We went and knocked the house, but no one was there. Then we saw a little girl playing in the neighbor’s front yard. If there's a little girl, there's parents. As we were walking up to talk to them, we saw the grandma chillin, but then the parents rolled in at that exact moment. We helped them with their groceries and then taught them the Restoration. His name is Anne and he and his family are from Honduras. He has just recently started joining a church and learning about Christ and loved what we had, and the spirit was so strong you could've cut it with a knife. It was awesome and a great experience. 

I’ve had a couple of moments on my missions where I realize that holy crap I got it good. One of these was this day. We were walking on a street and meet Serena. She had 2 black eyes and bruises everywhere. She mentioned how her situation was so hard, but it was even harder to leave it. Dad once shared with me the idea that "by the grace of God but I go" or in other words, God only knows and it is His grace and plan, not our worthiness that puts us into our birth situations. I just feel so bad, and we will hopefully be teaching her soon. 

After that lesson, we were walking back to the car, because we were on our way to an appointment when we pulled over, and we saw this dood walking with his shirt tied around his head like a ninja and wearing a wife beater with a backpack on backwards. We started talkin, and he was a cool dood, but he had a giant bag of coke in the bag with a pistol. He was calm as day. It was crazy man haha. OK sorry…don't be scared I probably shouldn't of told you that one. Haha!

That same day, we taught Francisco, who is struggling. Being an immigrant and all, it's hard to make ends meet. He is struggling, but we got the chance to just promise him he can find his answer when he reads the Book of Mormon and humbles himself.

On Wednesday, we had to go to a Firestone to get our oil changed. All the ones in our area were packed, so we had to go to a different ward boundary. When we got there, instead of just sitting down and waiting, Elder White gets us to get out and just start walking and talking to people. Idk why, because the area is a very wealthy area, but we must've talked to the only Spanish people in that whole area. Just such a miracle. Then, we saw a guy sitting in his car. We went up to talk to him, and it turns out he’s a lost sheep, or a member whose records aren't here and no one knows where they are. His mom is also a member, but his wife and kid aren't. LIT that's a part Member family. Such a miracle how we found them. 

Then we got to teach Juan Corona, who is another part Member family, who might be the most prepared human being ever. KAW RIVER IS ON FIRE BABY. 

Then we had Zone Conference. It was nice. 

Do you remember that Honduran family of members that we found out of a miracle a couple weeks ago? They came to church and are on the path to getting sealed in the temple. Mom, I love this work. It's the best thing I've ever done. 

We met with Edson, who is another lost sheep from Honduras, whose wife and son aren't members! We got to talk about eternal families and temples and they loved it as we taught the restoration. Thus this is the best thing ever. 

We had a lesson with Iván and Karina. Also Spanish. Karina is a member, but they aren't married bc of some paperwork stuff that could be fixed, but it's not his priority right now. Or at least it wasn't then. Karina is the sweetest lady ever, read the BoM every day, etc. We went in and had a really spiritual lesson. We got to kneel down and ask for a miracle. We are going to fast next week so that he can get his paperwork done and submitted by Aug 24th. They now know of the blessings they are missing out on and the sun they are committing, so hey let's see.

A recent convert in Santa Fe is going on a mission! He messaged me on Saturdat and I was pumped. He sends me some good memes every once in a while haha. 

We also got some free Barbacoa on Saturday morning for breakfast. It was way good and nice of the man. 

I love this… these are the best days of my life.

I love you and can't thank you enough for everything you do.

Elder Ogden