Over 9000!!

This week was amazing. The Lord is in this work, and I know He wants all to come unto Him.


There is an overload of content for this email. Instead of throwing it all in here, I will walk you through a goated story of epic proportions. We need a burglar.


Imagine a land, in a far away place, where the caravans came in Dodge. The story starts with a carrier pigeon floating a message through the cloud to the Lindsay 3rd ward Ward Mission Leader. "We would love to have you come with us to a few lessons Wednesday night." He said sure, and the rest is history.


I remember that night, I just might remember that night for the rest of my days. We met him in a new gated community in the area, where the gates stay open throughout the day, for our first lesson! After that, we hopped in his stick shift Honda Civic and civilly skirted to some other homes in the area. Rounding out the night we stopped by our new friend Elisa! We helped break down some boxes for her and then sat down to share a message. It was sliced bread and she was so down to meet with us weekly! Member fellowship go crazy. We got out of the lesson and it was 9:35 (that's not a thumbs up from papi). We jumped in the Civic and Tokyo drifted back up to our car about 8 minutes away.


We got up to the gated community and apparently the gates CLOSE AT 8. So there we were. Our Ward Mission Leader asked, "What does the scouter report say?" No, jkrotfl, he asked, "What should we do?" We told him to let us out at the Black gate. "How will y'all get to your car?"


The camera gets a close up of my companion and I as I say, "Life finds a way." Our valiant Brother Skeets back to his family as Elder Giles slides his backpack under the gate. We Pacifier our way under, and epicly walk the quarter mile to the car. The camera pans to a glorious bird's eye view as the voice of Morgan Freeman wraps up the evening by saying, "Giddy up Elders, Giddy up."


Elder Sheppert

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