Email from May 21, 2012 Elder Brad Dillard

Email from May 21, 2012 - Elder Brad Dillard:

Another week in Aurburn California!

It has really been a great one I must say. It is so exciting to have two areas to work in because it is impossible to run out of things to do! It is so cool to never have to worry about not having enough work. The other area we are covering now hasn't seen missionaries in like six months so it is just crawling with people ready to hear the gospel. We are only going up there one day a week due to the distance we have to travel to get there, but we already have a few investigators that the ward has found us that have been waiting for missionaries to get there. So sweet! Wednesdays will be our Forest Hill days and they will be jam packed to the max with people to teach and see. I have butterflies right now just thinking about it.

I love these areas so much, I cant even begin to explain it! There are so many more humble people that are willing and ready to hear the message of the Restoration, and so many more opportunities to do service. On saturday we were able to spend the first few hours doing yard work. It was cool how it happened too. I was on exchanges in the Colfax ward and one of their investigators cancelled on us that morning because she was sick. We ended up stopping by anyways and saw that her yard was completely out of control so we told her we were going to go a lawn mower and a weed wacker and that we were going to take care of it. haha we didn't leave her much choice. So we went and borrowed some old man clothes from one of the members in the ward and borrowed their equipment and went to work. We looked so goofy in those clothes haha I will send you all pictures next week. Being able to get out of our shirts and ties and get covered in grass and dirt and smell like exhaust for a while was absolutely wonderful. I am excited to start chopping wood for the winter too! Forest Hill is a little town way out there in the woods, kind of like Morton actually, but better ha. So everyone burns wood and I cant wait to start splitting some wood.

We have been truly blessed with so many things, and so many miracles in this area. It is so easy to look back on all that happened in the past week and see the hand of our Heavenly Father all throughout it. He has blessed one of our investigators so quickly and so abundantly it blew my mind! Within a 6 day period, Elder Growcock and I, along with our Bishop and ward members, and much praying, we helped her get a job, get enough money to save her apartment and not get evicted, get her daughter on the select softball team, and learn to love, trust, and put her faith in God. It was a mircale in my eyes. We also got one of our investigators, a 64 year old man on date for baptism, and will be inviting many more this upcoming week. Being on a mission is the best!

I love you all very much!

Love,

Elder Bradley Dillard