How did you find us?

So this week we had a beast Zone Conference. Where Elder Neilson of
the seventy came and talked to us. It was such a cool conference. He
taught us all about Christ's Atonement and the different parts to it.
And then he focused on us and how we could help our investigators
apply the Atonement in Christ's life. It was so awesome to be able to
hear and learn from him.

So this week I got to go on an exchange with an Elder in my district!
Elder Wood. And he is an awesome guy and likes to sweat. So he ran me
to the ground on bikes. I think he had us bike up every hill possible
in their area but it was good for me. Hahaha

So the other night we had a feeling to stop by a less-active who's
name we had never seen before. And it's not too far from our house. So
we go there it was late at night and we knock on the door and this
lady answers and before I can say anything the first thing that came
out of her mouth was "How did you find us?!" In an interesting way. I
had had this happen before and it was usually followed up by someone
yelling at us or a door slammed in our face. But her husband came to
the door and it was the less-active and he was so excited to see us.
Apparently she responded like that because they had just moved to that
house like 2 weeks ago. So how we got their new address so fast I have
no idea! Hahaha but their son was about to go through a big hip
surgery again and he is only 2 years old. So the dad wanted us to give
him a priesthood blessing. So before I felt the need to explain what
it was to the wife, who is not a member, and share my testimony of
them. Afterward we gave him a priesthood blessing and in it the words
were said "let the doctors know what will be best for him at the
moment." And so the surgery was the very next day and we text the dad
to see how it went and he sent this huge text telling us how amazing
it was. The doctors were about to do the surgery when they decided to
take one more X-Ray to see what is going on. And right before they
were about to put the little guy to sleep one doctor came in and said
don't do it. He then showed the X-Ray and his hip had showed recovery
it was growing normal it was on its way already with no surgery
needed. The Dad and mom were so happy that their little boy didn't
have to go through another surgery. Especially since he has already
been through so much. They want us to come over and visit every week
now. Miracles really do happen. The priesthood is real.

So we got a text from a member the other day telling us to contact his
friend. So his friend just proposed to a girl in the ward and they are
engaged, well the family doesn't like that he is not a member but he
doesn't know anything about the church. So because he wants to make
decisions for himself and not for his future in-laws he wants us to
teach him the lessons but keep it a secret so he doesn't feel pressure
from the family. So we started teaching him and he is just an absolute
amazing guy. Crazy thing is he is my age! He graduated the same year
as me and so it was cool to teach someone that I could relate with
very well.

There is a less-active that I have done a lot of service for his name
is Pat. And he wanted to repay us for all the service we did and so he
took us out to dinner and a Brazilian steak house one of those places
were the meat just keeps coming. Ya he took us there and it was
amazing! I have never been so full in my life!

That was pretty much my week. So pretty good week. Love and miss you all!

Oh ya and a member gave me a dope bowling ball to use for P-day today!

Elder Swisher