Visit From a Prophet

Dear Family and Friends

Brother Todd Daniels and Elder Sirrine

Elder Fata and Elder Sirrine

Elder Futrell and Elder Sirrine

This week was good here in Sulphur! It was also a crazy busy week!
Let's get to it!

Tuesday we went and found people and taught 8 lessons in a couple of
hours! It was awesome! Then we went and ate dinner at the Wilmores and
then we went and played basketball! We had 8 investigators at
basketball! It was awesome and so much fun! They really enjoyed it and
are all coming tomorrow as well!

Wednesday we went with one of the best members names Todd Daniels who
just reactivated himself 2 weeks ago to visit one of his friends in
the hospital. His friend was told by the doctors he wasn't going to
make it through his surgery. Todd hurried and called us and we drove
up there as fast as we could. His friend asked me to give him a
blessing, I said in the blessing that he would be ok and Heavenly
Father was not done with him here on earth. We all started to cry in
that more in the middle of the blessing. I paused after I said that
and the spirit was so strong. It was one of the most incredible
spiritual experiences I have had on my mission so far. We then left
and we got a call on Friday that he survived the surgery and is
starting to heal very quickly. The doctors were shocked and he is now
doing awesome and should be out of the hospital in the next 2 weeks.
Such an incredible opportunity. Then we went and knocked doors for a
while and didn't have much success. Then we went out and ate dinner
with Bishop Stott who is the new bishop of our ward because the ward
got split this past Sunday. He is a great man and he took us to a
steak house and it was so good.


Nothing on Thursday major happened.

Friday we had district meeting and it was a very good one. We talked
about how to truly listen to your investigator and the spirit. It was
a good discussion. The spirit told me some things I could work on
during that district meeting. Then we went and picked up Todd and took
him to some lessons. We found a man named Walter and he had said he
has been searching for the truth. It was incredible. He went into a
state of psychosis 3 years ago and it lasted for 2 years. He sat Im a
chair and kept his eyes closed and only ate bananas every once in a
while for 2 years. It was one of the craziest stories I have ever
heard. We taught him the Restoration and watched the movie with him!
The spirit was really strong! And he wanted to learn more. The Lord is
always preparing people for us if we do our part. Then we went and
picked up the Lake Charles Elders and drove to Vidor Texas for the
night because we had to be in Downtown Houston at 8am the next morning
really early.

Saturday we woke up at 330am and got ready and drove to downtown
Houston! We walked in the chapel and there was about 800 missionaries
there, we were very confused. President Drake only told our mission
that he was going to speak with us that day. We asked around and
turned out that the Houston mission, Houston South mission and our
mission were all there! We were in shock. Then President Drake got up
and said to all the missionaries, " everyone we have a special guest
today, it is our honor today to hear from President Russel M Nelson,
the President of the quorum of the twelve apostles, he will be here
shortly". Everyone was so excited! The minute President Nelson walked
into the chapel, the whole church was filled with the spirit, it was
unreal. He is an amazing man. He gave us 800 missionaries some great
council. One thing he said that stood out to me was " Christs
atonement is NEVER ENDING for anyone! No matter what". That really hit
me hard. He is a amazing man and we got to shake his hand as well. He
is just full of the spirit. He also shared a story of a vision he had
that he hasn't told anyone about. 2 girls appeared to him and asked to
do their temple ordinances. He then told all of us to go to the temple
and go after your mission as often as you can. I will never forget
that meeting.

Sunday we went to church and they split our ward. We have a new
bishopric for our ward and they are all amazing men led by Bishop
Stott. Then we went with Todd and visited some of our investigators.
Then we went and visited less actives.

All and all this was incredible week and I am very grateful to have
been a part of it! Thanks so much for all your support and love! I
appreciate all the emails. I love you all and have a great week!
Elder Sirrine