May 16, 2016
So I just
want to share a quick miracle of this week... We had a member out with us
teaching and we had to cut that short to go to a dinner appointment. When we
pulled in the parking stall of the dinner appointment's home, they sent us a
text saying that they had to cancel. We were pretty bummed because if they had
told us sooner we could have kept the member with us and done some good work!
But we figured God wanted us in that area for a reason and so I got the idea
that we should walk and we found a local member and decided to walk to them
even though it was cold, rainy, and Elder Wilcken was sick. We walked there, 2-2-5ed**, and still found
nothing. We walked back to the car and
on the way someone pulled over and asked to talk to us. And to make a long story just a little longer,
we talked to a lady who had been adopted by a member family as a child and
baptized. Since then she had married an
Episcopalian and has several kids and has been looking for a way back to
church. She said "I have lived here
for 9 years and have never seen missionaries around here but I'm so excited to
be able to come back."
We had no
right being there. If even one thing happened differently she wouldn't have
passed by us. God led us there in a very real way. He is the one that knows
where his children are and we need to rely more on him. I'm going to commit to
do that more.
That is the
best of the week and sooo much fun. This week we are going on 3 exchanges and
so I'm sure that it will be soooo much fun :)
LOVE you!
Elder Marky
Mark and the Funky Bunch Howland
(2-2-5ed means going to visit
someone and if they do not answer we knock on the two doors to the right and
left and 5 directly accross the street! The OCM version of tracting that is way
more efficient. I didn't know...I had to ask him what that meant.)
Elder Howland with his new zone...at zone conference.
Elder Howland and his companion, Elder Wilcken (from Texas).
Elder Howland...
