August 15, 2016 Emails
hey Dad, so it was a good week. i have never thought
about praying for a good week in particular, just a good successful day, but i will try that. so J** fell off date of the 20th, so she is moved
to the 3rd of September. hopefully she can do it sooner, but unfortunately she had a small relapse on smoking. we will see how
that works out. M**** is doing well, she is now thinking about being baptized
in September so she is working towards choosing a date--she should have one
soon. she is fixing a lot of the issues that she has and is showing a great
amount of faith. it is great to see! T** was not able to make it to church this
week because he was working. he works at a grocery store chain out here. we
had a really good chat with him about why he meets with us, and he really is
working towards making his life better, and has really felt
closer to God as we have been meeting with him. he is doing better at keeping
his commitments now, which is good. the others we have talked to are making
their way along. one of the new investigators we found last week, asked us to give them a blessing and that was a cool experience.
one miracle we had this week, was when M**** wanted to move up her prospective date from Januray to September. that was awesome, the Spirit can do amazing things! we also did a fun service project hauling loads
of mulch up and down a hill in to a guy's backyard and dumping it back there, it
was super fun.
that is good you had a good week at work Dad. although not
good with the demand, i remember with having to deal with min-max's at Hobby Town, that stuff is a pain to me. hahaha hopefully you will be able to
catch up now.
that is so crazy that Jeff's brother is home now, that is weird. it is so crazy to see the pics of the girls! man, have Mia and Libby grown, holy
crap! it is even more weird that i will be home in a year! gross! hahaha.
here in the greatest OCM, we teach about the Spirit,
before anything else. i like the scripture Moroni 7:13, it talks about how the Spirit invites and entices us to do good continually. that is one of the major
blessings that we can receive, is the will and desire to do good, as we listen to the Spirit. we were talking to a guy from downtown yesterday and he
was asking me if i had ever seen a man "receive the Spirit" and i
knew instantly he was another Pentecostal. i said, "that depends on what
you call receiving the Spirit", then i explained Galatians 5:22 to him. the Spirit
really does bring peace to our souls and our minds when things are not going
well, or when trials and challenges stand in our way. we turn to the lessons we have
been taught that we truly are sons and
daughters of our Heavenly Father and he loves us enough to speak to us through the Holy Spirit. we truly can rely on that influence to guide our lives, and i know
that is true. thanks for all you do for me Pops! have a great week! i love you Dad! talk to you later!
-Elder Sedlacek
hey Mom, so it was another good week as usual. the days are
long, but the weeks fly by like days, and the months turn to
weeks. it is weird, i remember Jake saying that. i just remember sitting in
ward council each week, and suddenly i am there again, it is crazy.
i did get
the package, thanks so much! the steak strips are so good, they are always a
special treat! thank you! and the speaker is a nice tool, i knew i should have
just taken it anyway. i will keep looking for a blue & white paisley tie, hahaha, you just keep recovering Mom.
probably the hardest thing that happened this week was showing up to a baptism and
having M**** not be there, but then the next day we took her to another one,
she just forgot about the first one. one tender mercy was having an awesome
meal appointment last night. i told the member about Dad's bear rug fever and they
liked that! hahaha it was just a fun meal appointment, it gave us some time to
relax for 45 mins.
i am really happy about your knee becoming more and more
mobile, that is really good. that is good you are starting to sleep better too. you will eventually get there. that is
weird that Jeff's brother is home now, that is crazy. good that he was able
to get a little taller, i have been meaning to measure myself but i keep
forgetting haha. there is a reason that they say patience is a virtue. i am working on my
patience right now too. i was reading about it this morning, and patience is so
important for us, we not only have to be patient with others but with
ourselves. i am working on being patient with myself and others. we can often
get caught up in the fact that we are not good enough, or our other faults, when we
really have to be focusing on improving those things. doing the opposite will only
tear us down and make life harder and more miserable. if the Lord can be
patient with me, than i can be patient with me hahaha. well, sorry there isn't much
else to update, do you have any questions to ask me? feel free to ask, it is hard
for me to spit out a whole week on a page, so i do miss stuff that happened hahaha.
Mom: What did you do for p-day last week? What was your really good dinner appointment?
we actually went to Get Air last week, that was super fun. the Get Air they have out here has a bunch of American Ninja Warrior stuff on
it, and it was super fun! the members fed us some really good green beans, which i
absolutely love now! hahah also some sweet corn and pasta with a meat sauce that
you pour on top, it was really good. then he showed me his Mormon Doctrine
book. i need one haha!
we ate some cactus we found this morning at the other Elders' apartment, which is a miracle we found some, cause, well hello, it's Ohio!
Mom: Cactus? I didn't know you could eat it. Is it good?
Elder Erickson had eaten some before, and it's good. it tastes kinda like kiwi. i like it!
well, i have to go now Mom! thanks so much for emailing
me and for all you do! you're the best Mom! i love you and everyone else too!
talk to you later! i just remembered i forgot to answer Sarah, sorry Sarah!
next week! i read it though! bye!
Elder Sedlacek
