Sheppert, David

Here's an entry I don't think I included from an exchange a few weeks ago: "On the Spanish exchange today, I blended in as a quiet Spanish speaking elder the whole lesson with these member ladies. Then, shaking their hands to leave, I said "me gusta" to one of them instead of "mucho gusto." GG" One of our friends (who is to be baptized in the next few weeks) was in prison for 45 years of his life. He looked at us a few days ago and said, "I've never smiled like this in my life." I can see the gospel changing him and uniting his family. The gospel brings joy that nothing else can. Go cougs, Elder Sheppert

1) Solo drive (Go home buddy, I work alone) Elder Bell the Vehicle Tsar called earlier this week with some good news. "Is Elder Sheppert there? I know you are a big time fan of Corollas for some reason. So I need you, your companion, and a few other Elders to help drive some of the new cars into the mission." We got picked up in a big mission van and whipped out to the Toyota dealership. Elder Bell said, "Everyone's telling me not to put Elder Sheppert behind the wheels of one of these bad boys. I'm gonna do it anyway." My comp and I each got in our own vehicle and geared up for the drive. I felt like Vin Deisel the way I drifted through the highways and intersections on the way to the mission office. It was like Thanos getting Vision's stone, I had unlimited power after uniting with the Rolla! 2) The fam I wrote about 2 weeks ago, yeah we've been meeting with them! This week we were planning to meet with them Sunday at 4pm. We were running late and ...

We biked past a bus stop the other day. We stopped to talk to the guy and gal there. He said, "Sorry brothers, I believe we have a conflict of interest." I said, "What's that?" He taught, "I'm doing drugs, and you want to talk about God." I responded, "It sounds like we have the same interest: Happiness. We are just going about finding it differently." He took down our number, but we are still waiting on his call. The week has been amazing though! The spirit definitely put on the take-over badge out here. Maybe a microwave badge as well. We are continually being led to elect children of God! So hype.  Sorry, not many pictures but we did catch a gorgeous shot of Elder Hutto! Elder Sheppert

Straight into a bigtime miracle: We were stopping by some friends at an apartment complex. We stopped to talk to a man getting into his car. He said no thanks basically. Plot twist, as we were biking to the next visit he pulled up to us in his car and says, "My wife would probably be down to talk with ya'll though. Here's our address."  So went and stopped by and she was busy and said to come by the next day. Fast forward to yesterday. We stopped by with less clue of what would happen than lil Tom Hanks pulling up to Zultar or whatever it's called. The guy from the car answered door (ay Pierre you wanna come out here). He let us in and helped us to the couch as he finished his game of COD #Ninja. He started grilling us with Q's like Iron Chef. The hype part is that all roads lead to Rome, and all truly penitent seekers' questions lead to Christ and the Restoration. You my fish filet. His wife came in and the COD game ended. After 45 minutes of gospel relat...