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"Bearing your testimony is like jumping off a cliff"

Helloooo ... not sure what to call y'all

 Anywho. super great stuff this week (the subject is what a 12 year old said on the stand yesterday at church lol.. truth)

 Monday, we met Devyn, a super cool 17 y/o from Ellensburg who is staying here for the summer. He has a lot of LDS friends in Ellensburg and was fairly familiar with the Book of Mormon before we met him. We talked with him and invited him to be baptized that day. It was amazing to feel the Spirit there to testify to him of the truth of what we were saying. We met with him again on Wednesday and shared with him the Message of the Restoration and essentially asked him what he thought of the whole Joseph Smith thing. He had read part of Joseph Smiths testimony before we went over and he didn't see why anyone would make these things up. I saw even that as miracle, because there are so many people who have biased opinions before they even hear our message and choose to turn it down preemptively. He has been so prepared to receive these things. He actually told us about how a couple weeks before we met him, he had prayed that God would help him find his faith, and then we showed up. when we asked him if he'd be willing to read and pray to ask God if these things were true and if they could bless him, He said to us "well, I already signed up to be baptized". a miracle that we were able to see in hindsight, was that we had tracted the street where we met Devyn a couple weeks ago and hadn't met anyone who had any sliver of interest. the entire time we had tracted, we were hoping that one of the people we met would turn out to be an obvious reason for us to tract there, but nothing. the house we met Devyn at, was a house where a woman lived who had said we could come back. She hadn't seemed interested at all, but we figured an invitation to come back could lead to something, so why not try it? and then... miracle!

 We taught the 15-step stop smoking program to Walls on Thursday. It was so cool to watch the determination on his face as he crushed the three packs of cigars that he had. And he very adamantly told us that once he is past this, he's never going back. p.s. he gave us his ashtrays!

 And to finish off, a couple funny quotes for you:

 Sister Wilcox is a twin and we were talking about how she is way shorter than her twin brother, and in answer to why she goes "i was squished in the womb!"

 We were visiting with Jutta, and her dad was there, waiting impatiently for her grandma..

 Grandma: I'm coming, I'm coming
Dad: so is christmas
G: *angry faces and hand gestures* MEN!!

 We told Walls that we'd give up Peanut Butter while he quits smoking(yes, we love it that much) to which he says "alright, step away from the Peanut Butter.."

 I've been studying the talk "A Reservoir of Living Water" and I highly recommend it. Its been amazing to learn not only why it so necessary to study Gods word, but how the revelation that comes can feed you spiritually and you need it to survive this world. Its the bomb, look it up and drink some water, feed your souls. 

 Love you all!!
Sister Shuldberg

 p.s. I got to see all 5 of my companions on Saturday! 'twas nuts, and so rare
p.p.s. this little boy is named Trayce but they call him Tuck or Tucker since he can tuck his ears!
p.p.p.s. we played the ukuleles in Primary! what!?!?​







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