Hi family. We had a wedding!
Wow Spanish people are awesome! They rented a hummer limo and had the
church decorated up all crazy with this way big star behind the head table and
it was super crazy. I got to sit with some non-members and they were really
cool and we just got to talk about coming to Texas to serve and things like
that. Its kinda funny because we speak Spanish. It just blows some peoples
minds. They just look at us and are like ‘but he’s white?’ haha it’s great.
Then we explain why we speak it and they are like ‘wow that’s some real
dedication to come out and do that’. I love non-members. They’re so funny. They
must all think that we are so crazy. Haha. It was really cool, during the
wedding when the bride V* was getting
to the church (she got there like an hour late because of car problems!) and so
lets just say they were in a rush, V* still stopped and had the missionaries
come in and get a picture with us. It was really cool. I really didn’t think it
was going to happen like that. She looked so happy and I know that God was
happy too. They might have had a bigger wedding then they needed to but they
are now living the way that God wants them to and because of that they are both
getting baptized this Thursday, the 25th, and then even more
blessings are going to come to them. I love that God will always provide a way
for us to follow his commandments, always. 1 Nephi 3:7 talks about that and I
have come to know that that is true. This last week we had almost no time in our
area to work. We were helping set up the wedding and setting up for a baptism
and we had a meting or two and we really only got to work our area for probably
like 8-10 hours max and we didn’t do all that bad. People would look at it and
think that we did ok for a full week but if they knew how much time we had they
would be shocked I think. I was. We did what we needed to and then we worked
when we had the time to and everything just came together. I know that if we
have the faith to put in our part the Lord will do the rest and that we will
see miracles just happen. The song ‘Be still my soul’ just came into my mind
and I feel like that works well with this. God has our back and He will never
let us fall when we are willing to lean on him.
Love,
Elder Birks
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