This week went pretty well, it was hard to see Elder Mickelsen go to Vinton, but we had a good time before he left. Our friend Sam took us on a jeep ride through the mountains last p-day, that was super fun and we made the rounds saying goodbye to everyone.
My new companion is Elder Burgener, he is from Reno Nevada, so that is pretty cool. He reminds me a lot of myself when I was first being trained, so that is pretty funny. We are off to a pretty good start.
On Thursday, when we got back into our area from transfers, we had a lesson with a younger aged man that went really well. We found this guy through a referral that we got from some of our other friends that we had been teaching. We taught him at the church and gave him a tour and everything. We had a really good lesson and after we asked him how he felt and he said that he felt "comfortable." It was a sweet lesson; we were really excited to start teaching this man.
There was one other miracle we saw this last week. We were staying pretty busy and we got a call from some of our friends and they asked us if we had a few minutes to come over and pray for them and give them a blessing because they had decided on their own to quit smoking. So we said of course! We went over and gave them a blessing and they started the quitting process and are doing awesome. We have been super proud of them. It is cool how the spirit works on people; we were planning on going over the word of wisdom in our next couple of lessons. It was a big testimony builder to me just on how the Lord really is in his work and many miracles go seen and unseen.
So also something cool that happened at church yesterday. Our recent convert, Brother Gunn, received the Aaronic Priesthood. He was pretty excited; he said it was hard for him to decide if he was ready because he recognized how special it is. I think partially he was under the impression he would have to do as much as the missionaries do, but then after we taught him about the responsibilities of the Aaronic Priesthood, he seemed to be pretty excited about it. It was powerful; he said it felt like electricity was running through him. He is doing very well and should be on his way to the temple pretty soon!
Well that is about it for this week. There is an outstanding brother in the branch named Brother McClure. He had us over for dinner last night and we rode with him out to his place. When we were traveling, I asked him a question. I said, "You have to be one of the most positive people I have ever met, what is the secret?" He replied and kind of laughed and said, "You have to always see the glass half full. It takes practice, but you learn that people like to be around other happy people. There is always someone that has it harder than you do." That is the truth! I am learning being positive goes a really long ways.
I love you all and hope you keep the Faith!
- Elder L. Kaleb Bingham
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