The Pattern Breaks (11/14/2018)

Hello everybody,

Here are my notes for things to communicate in my weekly email to you all:

• It's cold
• I'm 22

Yeah, that about covers it.

Okay, a little bit more information: things with aforementioned people we're teaching along with some others are progressing slowly but somewhat surely, with many delays. We'll get there...

A guy named Jon who we recently started teaching has had work these past two weeks preventing him from coming to church. Then he tells us that he is free to come next week! We mentioned that this past Sunday morning at Ward Council and the Bishop reminded us that next week is Stake Conference. ...So close.

We've been raking a lot of leaves. Yesterday we raked an entire backyard of some members and it took two hours. Mountains of leaves take a lot of effort to move.

Oh yeah, so the transfer ends tomorrow and I'm staying in Ashland with Elder Lewis. This is the first time I have been with a companion for more than a single transfer! The pattern is officially ended.

One thing I've been thinking about lately is following the promptings of the Spirit. They are so small and subtle sometimes and often I feel like they contradict what I feel is a reasonable direction to go in, and yet every time I ignore a prompting because it seems illogical I pretty soon feel lost and abandoned. That's what happened last night when we ended up walking for much too long and wasting time because I didn't follow a prompting to turn around and move on instead of heading where we were trying to head (a place that was much further than it seemed to be and turned out to not exist anyway).

A person we're teaching wished me a Happy Birthday on Facebook! Haha, that was kinda cool.

Reminder that P-days are changing to Mondays, so I'll catch you in 5 days.

Love,
Elder Gallagher

Pics: Something we saw this morning on a telephone pole next to a neighborhood market. Yup, we're in Amish country alright.

And some isolated highlights I "screenshotted" and then stitched together from The Fourth Missionary (which you all should have read but if you didn't here is a little taste of it).
 


 

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