This past week was crazy! It was crazy good! We had lots of lessons which kept us out of our apartment for a lot of the days which is always nice. Since we have this place that we do service at it's been so nice that even if we don't have anything really on a particular day we will always have service so no matter what we are getting out.
Lemme tell yuh this area is bumpin for Indiana. It is low key almost like my first area which is unheard of but it's almost on that level which is so dope. Speaking of my first area... if yall can remember way back when I was teaching the man named Scott, the one who had serious word of wisdom problems and he was drunk everytime we would go over there, yeah, so I heard this past week that he passed away:( it's so sad, he was only 25. I kinda knew he would die young just because he was on such a bad path in life but I didn't think it would be this soon. I was pretty sad about it cause even though he was kinda tough to deal with and teach, it's what everyone says about being a missionary, once you meet that one person you instantly have love for them and want to do everything you can to help them. So it's hard to hear but hopefully because of his interactions with missionaries on earth maybe he will accept it up there.
Anyway, on a happier note, we received a referral this past week! Now this isn't just any referral...now lemme just tell you the whole story and lemme also say this has never happened in the entirety that I've been on my mission so far. It's crazy. SO, anyway we got a text from a priest in the fishers 2nd ward (which is just down the street from us) and he let us know that he has a friend that he works with at Cabella's that he thinks would be interested to learn more about our church and meet with us! So we were already stoked by that. We met with him this last Friday and both the priest(Griffin) and the referral (Jon D.) were both there. We sat down and got to know Jon a little bit, and turns out he is originally from Colordado and he loves MTB(for all you chumps that dont know what that is, Mountainbiking) so we instantly hit it off. We planned on teaching him the restoration as we usually do for first lessons, but turns out Griffin had literally and kid you not taught him everything about our church already. So he knew everything so the lesson just turned into a discussion on what he already knew and we added a few things on to it as well. But seriously this kid had already been taught everything. If only I was a courageous as Griffen in highschool all my non member friends would have been converted haha. Anyway, what happened next was the shocker, after the end of our discussion he leans over to us and pops the golden question every missionary dreams about and he said "so boys how do y'all get me baptized and when can it happen?" We were like WHAAAATTTTTTTT THE FREAK!!! I was tempted to just say "yo there's a river right behind us I can dunk you right now" haha. But in all seriousness, this kid is what you call a Golden Investigator. Heavenly Father has prepared Jon to become a member and was brought to us through the member that followed promptings to teach him about our church. It's truly a miracle sent straight down from the Lord and I knew it was no coincidence. It reminds me of a scripture in Alma 16 that talks about how the Lord will prepare his people to receive the gospel in their lives and it says "And there was no inequality among them; the Lord did pour out his Spirit on all the face of the land to prepare the minds of the children of men, or to prepare their hearts to receive the word which should be taught among them at the time of his coming." I know for a fact that Heavenly Father prepares his children that are ready to hear the gospel so that us missionaries can come in contact with them and share the good news with them!
I am so greatful for this past year that I have been able to be a disciple of Jesus Christ and share the gospel with everyone that I can. Even though we still can't openly find people outside of our apartment that in no way has stopped us from being able to further His work. If there was no work to be done even during quarantine then I know I wouldn't be here, but I am still here, so there is so much work that can be done! I love this Gospel with all my heart and look forward to another year that I have left out here!
I hope you all have a wonderful week and make sure you are always SENDING IT FOR THE LORD
ELDER HILBURN
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