Elder Jacob Elgaaen in Jacksonville, Florida: March 4, 2019 The Stew

This week was super interesting! So I went disc golfing again on Monday and had a really good time. I love playing disk golf. It relates to life in a way... So we all have different goals in our lives. One of our eternal goals is to return to Heavenly Father and be happy. This can be represented by getting the Disc into the basket. Sometimes it takes 100 throws and sometimes it takes one. Most of the time as we keep our goal in mind we get closer and closer to our end goal but if we loose our focus, we can end up getting thrown pretty far off course. Sometimes Satan comes along as a wind and if we don't prepare for him or compensate by putting on our spiritual armor, we can get pushed off course. The great thing is that we have unlimited attempts. We can try over and over again and as long as we keep trying we will be able to make it in the basket! Just a random thought.

So on Tuesday, we got a call from Deborah. She told us her stew(toilet) was clogged from a few weeks back and that it was starting to cause her to pass out and have horrible headaches. We randomly had a pipe snake under our bathroom sink so we went over to try and unclog her toilet. Whatever was in there was super stuck. The snake wasn't doing anything. I took a toilet plunger and plunged as fast as I could for 10 minutes strait and the Stew was done! Haha Whatever was stuck finally broke loose. We went by Thursday after our district council and Deborah said she was feeling a lot better but now is sick with the flu. She said she could tell the difference which is good!

On Thursday, we got to help out at the Unity Church of God Pancake 🥞 Dinner. Elder Bell was feeling sick so he mostly just sat in a chair. I got to help them carry food in from their pancake cooker machines which were pretty cool. It was a huge rotating circle grittle with 4 fire strips underneath which would heat it as it went around. We also had a good district Council and one of the missionaries in the district had too much money on her account so she was told by the money coordinator that she could loose it all or by the district lunch so we had lunch on her. It was great!

On Friday, we were doing weekly planning and called a person we hadn't been able to contact and she answered and said we could come teach her right then. We said okay and headed out to teach her. We were able to have a good lesson and commit her to coming to church on Sunday. We did some service and had a great day.

Saturday was a day full of miracles. We found a recent move in family who are members that we had no idea about. We are going to get the records transfered down from our last area and hopefully help them come back to church. We also found Julissa who is so so so elect! She was really excited about the message we shared and was excited to have us come back. We had a great day!

Sunday, we went by Leah and knocked on her door to make sure she was ready for church. She said she was and so we went to Deborah to see if she was ready. She wasn't feeling up to church but we talked with her about the come follow me booklet and read in the scriptures with her. When we got to church Leah was there! It was awesome. We went back to Deborah and taught her some more and mopped her floor because it was nasty! All in all we had an awesome week!

I just want to share my testimony of The Book of Mormon! It is so awesome. I know it is the word of God and it testifies of Jesus Christ. It teaches the plain truths of the Gospel and teaches us how we can be better every day! I love the Book of Mormon and hope all of you will continue to read and study the Book of Mormon each and every day. I know as we do that, the heavens will be open to you and you will receive revelation that will bless your life and guide you in all aspects of your life. I love you all and hope you have the best week yet!