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Hey y’all! Hope you all had a good, short week with Labor Day being on Monday! Our week was super busy and went by really fast. We had a lot of great things happen though and to top it off Jerome got baptized and confirmed on Saturday!
Jerome’s baptism was a miraculous experience, as baptisms already are! There’s just something about finally helping one of our Heavenly Father’s children reach the goal of baptism. As I said all of it worked out well, there was a lot of support there and the Jones’ family, who were a little apprehensive in the beginning all got emotional and couldn't be happier. It was cool to see their heart’s soften, as well as Jerome’s through his progression. We were coming back from our exchange in Birmingham and so it was a long day but it was a tender mercy that all of it work out how it was intended. Even if he had to get dunked three times...
AJ and Keshaun (and Danny-Less Active) also are making great progress! We gave a lesson on the Word of Wisdom review and Chastity and it was hilarious. Yes, I know the Law of Chastity is a serious lesson and we had glimpses of seriousness-enough to cause them to ask about the repentance process they needed to make. But, it was just like a couple 19-year-olds teaching it to a 16-year-old and two 20-year-olds! I was really cool though because all of them committed to live those laws and Danny gave us his cigarettes and he went to talk to Bishop and the other two boys were ready to change! It’s been awesome to see all them progress and I’m really looking forward to seeing all of them in white on the 23rd!!
We saw Freddy again this week and he’s doing great! Working to the 28th of October for baptism! He has desire and he has the opportunity in front of him now! He wasn’t able to make it to church this week because he got called in to do work but hopefully he still keeps going! We want to try and talk to his family too and he said his wife was trying to get a new job so she didn’t have to work on Sundays. Crazy to think this all started with talking to a guy at a stoplight. Talk to everyone because you never know who is ready!!
Some other things we’ve been able to do this week was, as I said earlier, go on an exchange in Hoover. I went with Elder Olson and learned a lot! We met guy who had a crazy story and told us all about it for 30 minutes, then ended in a prayer and prayed for us for another 10 minutes. He was cool and is talking to him softened his heart enough to take a Book of Mormon. By the way, his name was “Steven Michael.” We also went to a couple District Meetings, one here and the other in Columbus, MS. Lots of good things trained on and taught there! President Ford came to Tupelo yesterday to speak and I got the opportunity to speak with him again!! It was kind of cool to have spoken with him in Wetumpka about 6 months ago and then to be able to do it again in another area! I was asked to speak at 8:30 Saturday night too because speakers canceled but it was an easy topic, “How has your decision to serve a mission changed/shaped your life?”
- Some kids saw us late one night and asked if they could write their names in our planners. They were 11-13 and we were talking with them and one said that his name was “chicken wing.” The next day we looked in Elder Stanford’s planner and found “Chicken Wing” written on one of his pages.
- We went to the Jones house and experienced how hard it was to teach someone (their nephew) by yelling and arguing. We tried to bring the Spirit and it was there for at least a little bit.
- Brother Hooper nearly killed us. It was our choice...but still. So, he has a “Hot Sauce” challenge. We took pictures of the bottle but the challenge was to eat a steak-it was about 8 oz.-marinated in this insane hot sauce for 24 hours. We both volunteered. We only got a potato with it and we couldn’t use any dairy products except butter on the potato. We got water, but no milk. We started and it was hot but we were going good. Then it hit our stomach and our bodies started to reject this demonic sort-a liquid that this steak was lathered in. Elder Stanford cried. We both started to shake and sweat. It was not an enjoyable experience. Luckily we finished it and got our reward, a glass of milk. He also gave us Tums and we were on fire for the next couple days. Thinking back on the experience I can’t really pin down how I felt or what I tasted...I don’t think I blacked out but it was something similar. What’s worse is what happened when it came out.
- We got back in contact with a PM Family after a month and a half. When we went to see them they both wanted to quit smoking and so they gave us their cigarettes. Then, later, they had some serious withdrawals and we were really confused but hope that all turned out well. :\
It was another good one here in Tupelo and we’re looking forward to transfer calls this coming Saturday. Pretty sure we are both staying here but it will be fun to see what happens this transfer! I love y’all and hope things are going well! If you need me for anything just email me!
Much Love,
Elder Milius
PS: On the bright side, I can handle anything spicy from now on.
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Godspeed,
ELDER MICHAEL S. MILIUS
ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM MISSION
"Behold I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I have been called of Him to declare His word among His people, that they might have everlasting life." ~3 Nephi 5:13
By the way, we found this talk this week! Pretty good stuff from a very young Spencer W. Kimball!
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