This was a good week...

This week was a good week.

This week I went on exchanges with an Elder named Elder Bradshaw. I
lived with him in Peoria North and served with him for all 5ish months
that I was in Peoria. We had a way fun day! For morning exercise, we
decided after running that we needed a bit of stress relief. We found
some old metal chairs and took a sledge hammer to them. It was quite
enjoyable and was a great reminder that even though we may be
missionaries, we are still young men.

We had an amazing experience this week. We felt the overwhelming urge
to stop by the hospital to visit one of the non members we did service
for a while back. He's been in there for about a month. We stopped into his room and it turned out that they were pulling the plug on him
that day. His less active neighbor was there. We thought that this was
the reason we needed to go to the hospital. We were prompted however
to leave the hospital after only 5 minutes of talking to them and the
visitors in the room. We left. On our way out of the hospital we ran
into our branch president's wife. She told us that she needed us to
come with her and that she was so thankful that we were there. We went
into the ER with her. There sat one of the less active members of our
branch with a shattered wrist. He asked us for a blessing. We were
able to give him a blessing and he told us that because of this
experience, he now wants to come back to church. Then as we were able
to leave again, another less active family was in the ER. They didn't
want a blessing, but they were thankful for the offer and the
knowledge that we cared about them.
This definitely helped me realize that I need to continually be
listening to the Spirit. If we hadn't followed that prompting, those
experiences couldn't have happened for those less active members or
us.

The rest of the week was full of missionary work. We found some non
members who were not interested in the gospel. We did some service for
some less active members. It was just a solid week overall.

I love you all and hope all is grand!

-Elder Toph Tribe