October 20, 2021: Lil' Pump

The long dark nights are creeping into Alaska. Which means, we park at safe locations, aka the church. There are like no street lights here! 

We pulled up to the church in our Black RAV4 and Elder Lambert ran up to us carrying a dog. He tells us that he found a very heavy, blind and deaf dog in the parking lot and can't find its owner. So we offered to go tracking for him haha. We knocked on 2 doors who lead us to the owner of the dog. We drove back to the church and carried the very thiccc dog ALL the way to the woman's house laughing our heads off. We learned the pups name was "Mister". Fitting! 

We drove to an apartment building hoping to find an inactive member of our church. We realized we didn't know which apartment number he lived in! So naturally, we said a prayer and selected the room with carved pumpkins outside of the door. We knocked and it definitely wasn't who we were looking for. BUT! I said, "hi! We are missionaries.... would you be interested in hearing a message about Jesus Christ?". We set up a time for the next day and ran off smiling BIG time:) I forgot to ask her name, so we named her "pumpkin girl" until she introduced herself as Susan the following day. 

We had 2 lessons cancel on us Friday night. So we selected a random old ladies address in our book and knocked on her door. A young mom with 3 boys answered with an unexpressionable face and asked us if we wanted to come in. We sat down making small talk, when the young mom went to get the grandma. The grandma walked out past us, went to get a glass of water, and then looked at us and said, "can I talk with you outside?". YIKERS. Turns out the young family had recently taken out their records from our church and they don't speak anything religious in the home. Which made the very spiritual grandma sad. She told us thanks for coming by but we had to leave. THEN! The young mom ran out and asked us to stay and have dinner with them! By the end of the night, we could tell that we were an answer to the grandma's prayer. #babysteps2returning2thegospel

I love my Savior, Jesus Christ. I love Joseph Smith and am thankful for his determination to bring the fullness of the truth to us on the earth today. The gospel of Jesus Christ has brought me so many blessings. I know that as we strive to read The Book of Mormon everyday and pray for humility, God WILL bring us comfort and most importantly... JOY!:) 

Alma 27:17

"the joy... was so great even that he was full; yea, he was swallowed up in the joy of his God, even to the exhausting of his strength". 

Choose JOY,

Sister Rex

Pics:

-Redhead Express&Matanuska sisters take on 2 music videos 

-Mister the thiccc dog

-the butt(e)

-sista stahelis last zone confrence:,(

-we are afraid of horses, but find joy In scooping their poop