8-4-19

Well a long week as we had a district meeting and a zone meeting. The district meeting was 1.5 hrs one way and the zone meeting was 3 hrs one way. We spent the night in Aberdeen S D.

We had a great day in Cherry Creek Saturday. We took a birthday cake over to a 6 year old (Cherry Creek is 45 minutes away and half of the trip is a back road. It is a beautiful place but takes a while to get there) The father answered and we told him we were looking for his son, that it was his birthday. He said no it isn't for a few days. He was wrong. Poor kid probably wasn't going to get anything for his birthday it looked like. Anyway the dad was a member and acted like he would be willing to come to church between puff's of smoke. He had had some really good experiences with the church. He said his mother was pretty much the head of the family and she would be the one to visit with. His brother came out of the house and said he wasn't baptized yet. I think he was 28 and said he would be interested in learning about the church. (oh he asked where we were from and we said Colorado. He said you came all the way from Colorado to bring my son a birthday cake?) We ran over to visit with the Mother and she was very much interested in starting up a little group in Cherry Creek. She said she would take us around to members in Cherry Creek so we can see if we have enough people to start a group up there. So we will go over this week to see what we can do. As I said earlier, There is a church in Cherry Creek that has been closed down because of poor attendance. A lot of the strong members have moved away. It is strange I have funny feelings about Cherry Creek, Like great things have happened there and we might get some more things going.

We came home to Eagle Butte  and the person who we had a lesson planned with fell through but we saw him walking down the road and visited with him and he said he was in a  competition with video games that night (last night). We said we would go over and watch him. We went to the motel for the competition. If he won he would win all the money, $80.00. Well when we went in the manager of the motel was VERY friendly.  She told us that we had brought a cake to her son for his birthday.  She told us she was a member but hadn't been attending for a while because she has 7 kids, Was going to college full time, and was doing payroll and taxes for like 6 or 8 different businesses. She was really sweet! We will be looking in on her. We got tired of waiting for the gamer and gave up and went home.

At Zone conference we heard a really great story:
There was a missionary that was waiting for his call and he had a dream that seemed really real.  He and his friend were waiting in the preexistence to come to earth and the missionary got his letter telling him where he was going to go.  He would be going to America and live in a home where the gospel was taught and he would be privileged to have money.  He was excited to go.  As he was waiting to go his friend got his letter.  His friend was going to go to a poor home with many family problems without the church.  He would be going to Costa Rica.  As they prepared to leave the friend told the missionary to find him.  A couple of weeks after his dream, he got his call and he was going to Costa Rica.  After he had been in the mission field a while he wrote to his bishop and said "I found my friend."