Hi everyone! Here in Woodland Hills we had a lot of opportunities to serve people in our ward! We also served people in the ward of the other missionaries in our apartment. We set up times to do service every morning. It is a huge blessing to serve others.
Here is one story that happened when we were doing service this week. We went to this older lady's house to trim some of her hedges in her yard. A lot of them were really big but she didn't have a hedger. She bought some brand new trimmers for us to use! So we got right to it. We came to a hedge that was really tall. We got a ladder so we could reach it.
Elder Plaisted was standing on the ladder but the ground underneath him wasn't the most stable so he lost his balance and landed on a gas gauge that was attached to the house. Luckily he was okay and had scrapes on his arm and back. When he fell on the gas gauge he cracked one of the pipes.
Immediately we started to smell gas because it was leaking so we had to call 911. The fire department came and turned it off. They told the Sister that lived there that luckily Elder Plaisted landed on the perfect spot where she wouldn't have to pay to fix it! (Probably a good thing because she was less active in their ward and they are trying to come back) That was a huge blessing! While everything was happening so many emotions were going on and it was really serious. But when everything settled down I started to bust out laughing and we all had a good laugh about it.
We started teaching this young man named Sibo! He's 17 years old and so prepared. For only being 17 he's very respectful and understands everything we teach him. Sadly he lives in another mission's boundary so we're probably going to have to pass him (and his mom Judy) off soon. I'm so grateful we've helped him so far in his journey with the Gospel.
The Lord continues to bless us with prepared people!
Yesterday we received a referral and we called her immediately. Her name is Kaylee and she is already a member of our church but has been inactive for 5 years. She told us she always wanted to come back to church but just never got around to it. When we called her we asked her if we could teach a lesson right then on Zoom and she said yes.
We got to know her and her background. She just moved here from San Diego and we asked where she lived in our area and she said Woodland Hill! We told her where we lived and she said "Wait do you mean the apartment complex right across the street from me?!"
Little did we know we live right by her! So we hopped off Zoom and dropped of a Book of Mormon to her! We're going to start meeting with her and help her come back to the church! Maybe soon we can start teaching her boyfriend as well? 🤷🏾♂️🤙🏼
Grateful for the Lord and Him helping this area to continue to move forward even with everything going on! The work continues!
Shout out to all my boys serving. Everyone's killing it!
I hope everyone has a good week!
Elder Espiritu
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