Amazing week! I'll try to convey a little bit of it.
So
once a month we do this thing in our mission called "Park Day" (So
called because we hang out at the Park all day! Haha. Just Kidding.
That's NOT what it is. In reality, we 'Park' our cars all day, and have
to bike/walk everywhere)
So here's the thing, on Park Days I try and have a good
attitude, and just work hard all day and hope for miracles... but they
never happen! I always have rough park days, where it's long and hard
and tiring, and absolutely nothing works out for us.
So this Park Day, I was also a little bummed, because it was
Friday, and we were supposed to have a wedding on Thursday.... But it
didn't go through, and we couldn't get a hold of the couple.
We're
out knocking doors and whatnot, and we get a call- It's Rachel and Mitch (The couple)! They apologized for Thursday, but their excuse was
understandable...they were in the hospital, about to have a baby! But
the baby wasn't quite ready to be born yet, so they were released from
the hospital on Friday morning. They called us because they both had
the same feeling, that it was really important to them to get married
BEFORE the baby was born, so the baby could be born into a Marriage :)
Isn't that awesome?!
So they call us, and we realize that we have a little problem, the
bishop is out of town! (which is why we were planning on doing it
Thursday, before he left) So we call all of the neighboring bishops, but
can't get a hold of them. Then we call the Stake President. No answer.
So we call our Mission President, and ask if we can just marry them! He
said no, but that HE could! So he came up from Tacoma, and the Stake
President actually was able to make it too, so he officiated, and
President just came for fun :) The Wedding was simple but awesome, and
it was cool because a lot of their friends actually came out to support
them :)
We went out beforehand and grabbed a cake and some
flowers to try and make it nice, and a little wedding card too. We were
WAY stressed though, because it took longer than we anticipated, and we
had no way to get to the church in time for the wedding! We started
street contacting people, but asking for rides instead of asking for
them to hear our message. It didn't work too well. Fortunately, a part-member family that we were teaching came through for us, answered our
call, and took us to the church in time! After the wedding, President
told us he thought they should be baptized right then, and told us to
fill the font. We called Bishop, ran it by him, and he was down!
Rachel and Mitch loved it, they were hoping originally to be baptized
the same day they were married, so their wish came true!
It was amazing, probably one of the biggest miracles of
my mission :) We had one of our boys baptize Rachel, and the other
baptized Mitch, and yesterday at church they also gave them the gift of
the Holy Ghost. It was incredible.
I love my companions, I love the Book of Mormon, I love weddings, I love knocking doors, I really love the Book of Mormon, And I
love the sunshine!
(Another thought from Chase I thought was worth sharing:)
Heavenly Father definitely puts
us in specific places for specific reasons - which are usually specific
people :)
What an incredible story!!
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