Week 53, Colby - Following the Spirit to the Middle of Nowhere


Kansas/Colorado border

So this week was interesting. We didn't have too many lessons but we were able to get to know some of the members better and get some good scripture study in the whole week due to the abundance of time on our hands.

This week our branch met for the first time since March and they seemed very glad to be there. It's a very small branch (only 20 members of that branch came) but a very happy branch. We are going to work with them and get to know them a lot better this coming week.

Today, pday was actually the most missionary-esque day of my week. We were on our way to go visit a historic site in Kansas when I started to feel a bit unsure and uneasy about going there. I felt we should go to a different monument, much farther but on our bucket list, and I suggested that to my companion. We decided to go there instead. We spent two hours getting to a place called Mount Sunflower- the highest point in Kansas.
As we were about to arrive we saw another car ahead of us who also stopped at Mount Sunflower (keep in mind this hill is in the middle of nowhere and 12 miles off the nearest "main road". We were surprised to see other people. But it did give us a unique missionary opportunity. They were a family of 6 and it turns out that one of their sons was adopted from Guatemala, and their family had gone their multiple times on mission trips! We were able to talk about that and Guatemala and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We talked about lds mission work in Kansas too. It was a very pleasant conversation and we wished them well on their trip.

Afterward my companion and I thought about how crazy it was that we changed plans on the road- costing us time- drove all the way over there only to get there at the same time as them, and then had so much to talk about and share with them! I hope a seed was planted and I know that the Lord directed us to go there today with a prompting from the Holy Ghost.

 I love my Heavenly Father and am grateful for his guiding hand in our lives. I hope we can all learn to see it and learn to recognize the still small voice of the spirit. I know that this is Gods work and that no unhallowed hand can stop it. I know that Christ directs this church, his church, and that it is the stone that will fill the earth, as David prophesied. These are the Latter Days and we have the privilege of witnessing the Lord fulfill all his promises made to Abraham. I know that Christ lives and that he will come again. That is my testimony in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.


Direction to other places from Mount Sunflower in case you get lost

The hilliest place in Kansas

Death of a Leprechaun ;)

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