Thank you for all the updates! I love them!
Now my turn to update you guys.
This week for me was very hard... It felt like a movie.
First we went to Miracle's and told her we couldn't visit with her anymore and of course she cried. We couldn't really tell her why, so we are all pretty confused but this is what our church leaders want so it must be for the best. Even if our leaders in the church are wrong, they're still right, and as long as we obey our leaders we will be blessed either way. Obedience brings forth the blessings of heaven. So that is our update about Miracle and she still calls us to see how "her boys" are doing but we are going to try not to go over to her house anymore.
Then we had a missionary meeting earlier this week with the ward council and they asked us what they could do better and all of the sudden the Spirit popped the idea of the 21-day promise into my head and I talked with them about it. I know very little about it or where to find it, but they want to get started with the program right away and were very excited. So if you would please, send me the info about that either from what you guys know or from the missionaries so I can share it with this ward.
Lastly, I will share another experience I had this week that brought me so much closer to my Heavenly Father. I got a call from one of our investigators named Susan. She is such a sweet lady and very strong with the circumstances she is in, and we visited her with back when Elder Kennard was with me and she has been going through a tough time and hasn't had time to visit ever since. So we have been getting calls from her sporadically about things she needs help with and as everyone knows, we can only help spiritually and are in no condition to help otherwise with the nothingness we have but word of God. She is having a hard time trying to pay her bills and asked for help moving. We said of course and to just give us a call when she needed our help. Then, this week she calls me and was very depressed, I asked her how everything was going and she said not good at all. She couldn't get moved out because she had nowhere else to go or a place to store her stuff... So they just took everything she owned and even her car. She told me she is homeless and doesn't want to live on this earth anymore and just called to pretty much say goodbye. I told her how important she was and she wouldn't listen and said she was going to commit suicide. I had no idea what else to tell her and I sense the seriousness in her voice that she was not kidding, as she was very emotional. I started shaking and asked her where she was at and she wouldn't tell me. I asked her to promise me that she wouldn't do anything until we visited with her because we have a lot of things that her Father in Heaven would tell her through us. She told us it wouldn't help and can't promise me that. I then asked her why she even bothered to call us if she wouldn't let us help? Then she said because I knew that you would listen and be the only one in this cruel world that wouldn't judge me, it seems that your the only one in this world that cares... then I had no idea what else to say at that moment and when I finally did, she didn't answer for like 5 minutes... I hung up called again, tried again and again. Then started getting super frustrated at our apartment and the other missionaries noticed and tried to calm me down as I threw the phone against the brick wall. I told them one of my investigators might of just committed suicide. They started freaking out we didn't know what to do... After sitting in the apartment not knowing what to do, we all decided to take the rest of the night off and do something to take our minds off the situation because there was nothing we could do and just sitting here would not be good. We all knelt down in our room and Elder Jackson offered a prayer to comfort me and give me strength. Just then as we were all kneeling I felt Heavenly Fathers arm around me and I started bawling and couldn't believe this was happening. I cried the entire prayer, Jackson kept praying and Ludlow and Salsberry just put there arms around me and I felt so much love and at that moment we felt the spirit so strong and it filled the room intensely. I will never forget that moment for the rest of my life when Heavenly Father hugged me along with his servants/these other missionaries/my best friends. It was as if Heavenly Father was proud of our efforts and us and we did the best we could with Susan.
To make a long story short, because I have to go (the rest of our district just showed up)
We decided to go to Chili's that I/the Brady family paid for. Thank you so much for that. :) It was a good time. But then later, I got a response back from Susan FINALLY! She text me and said "I promise I would not do anything and I don't break promises to good people..." And that made us SOOOO happy! Such a relief. That is all I have gotten from her but we are going to make an awesome lesson for her and looking forward to our visit with her.
I just want you all to know how precious life is and the great opportunity that we have to live here on earth. I love life so much it is so great. The blue sky, trees, EVERYTHING! This experience made me realize this and to not take anything for granted. We are so blessed and don't realize it with all the great things we have and the experiences we get to learn. Let's look at the good in life instead of focusing on the bad. The glass is half full, not half empty. We have a lot to be thankful for.
I love you guys so much and hope everything is going well. Looking forward to hearing from you next week.
Love, Elder Brady
---NO REGRETS---
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