Saturday, August 24, 2013

August 2013

Matthews letters and emails are becoming more and more positive, and filled with stories of spiritual experiences.  This last email told of an experience he had when giving someone a blessing. 

"The week has been so good! so remember _____? well the other day he hurt his knee really bad, and Elder S. offered me to give him a blessing, so when i gave it, the Spirit was so strong that my legs were shaking! and the next day he called us and he said his leg was completely better!"

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Monday, August 5, 2013

Week Two in Owensboro

Matt is getting settled in and starting to really like the area.  He loves all the trees.

Here is one of his stories

"i did an exchange with some elders in Jasper Indiana, and that town is modeled after a German town, so you feel like you are in Germany the whole time! .....  they were having some German festival when I was there , it was awesome, I talked to a German person in German, it was a very short conversation cuz i cant say much in German lol but ya"

He doesn't really say a lot when he emails.  I ask him questions and he never gets around to answering them.  Today the entire email he sent was about needing a bike all of a sudden.  Apparently, he is going on more exchanges with the "bike Elders" this time, so, now he needs to get one.  We kept the money in his account that we were told to, but, he said that the bike Elders told him he would need more than that for a decent bike.  Sigh, we'll deposit more and hope he gets something that will hold up for him.

I think he'll really like being out on a bike, the countryside is so gorgeous, it should be really nice for a change from their car.