Sorry I didn't send an email yesterday, the library was closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But, man, did we have some adventures yesterday!
So, we haven't been doing a ton of missionary work because we're in a college town in a YSA branch and school has been out and everyone has been away for the holidays. Luckily, school is starting back up soon and we'll be able to try and go find people to teach on campus! But anyway, we haven't been doing much except for service.
Yesterday was our P-day (Preparation Day) and for a while we've been listening to talks on my USB because Sister Brown's USB with all the awesome missionary appropriate music has been missing. Well, we finally tore apart the apartment looking for the darn thing and still didn't find it. By this time it was early evening and we realized that it might have gotten picked up with some trash in our apartment and thrown away and that I had taken out the garbage late that morning to the giant dumpster! So, we asked the apartment manager if anyone might have found in it in the parking lot and turned it in, but they said nothing had been turned in like that. So, we kept looking in the car, in our purses, in the apartment (for the thousand bajillionth time) and still didn't find it. Well, reality set it and we pretty much figured it was in that trash bag that I had put in that giant nasty dumpster. Not only did this USB have music on it, but also pictures from Sister Brown's entire mission that were not anywhere else. I finally told her that I would be willing to jump in the dumpster and find our trash bag so I could look through the trash to see if we did accidentally throw it away. So, that night after a final look through the apartment, I put on the clothes that I cared about the least (some jogging sweat pants and a t-shirt) and put on my work gloves and we went out to the dumpster in the dark with a flashlight and I jumped in. Sister Brown was holding the flashlight and helping me while I dug through the trash like a hooligan. Our trash bag was in the back far corner, but I didn't find it right away, so I was looking up towards the front. I cam across a big pile of leaves and branches from the landscapers cleaning up the parking lot and threw it in there. I was digging to the bottom to see if our trash bag was under there when Sister Brown said, "I think that's my flashdrive!!" Sure enough, it was right there mixed in with the leaves and twigs!!! Seriously, that is NOT a coincidence that we found that little teeny two inch flash drive in that huge gigantic dumpster. Now, I'm not saying that God will bless you with finding your lost items every single time, but I am saying everything happens for a reason. And this is the reason why we found that flash drive in the dumpster.
I turns out I was not very quiet when I was digging through there, so a couple people saw me dumpster diving and one person in particular, when I was running up to the apartment to grab my camera to take the picture you see below, asked Sister Brown if we were looking for pot. . . . . . We told him no, and what we were actually looking for was a flashdrive, but we were able to talk to him more and found out he just moved to San Angelo looking for a change in his life. He had access to all kinds of drugs where he used to live and he wanted to quit and clean up his life a bit. Well, because God knows and love us all, he decided to have Sister Brown lose her flashdrive so that I would go dumpster diving for it and when we found it, we would just happen to run into this young fellow who is looking for a change in his life!! We're planning on going by his apartment soon and teaching him about the gospel! MIRACLES. That is what they look like, folks.
I am happy to report that I am so grateful for everything that has happened to me! Everything happens for a reason, and we may not know what that reason is or why God does what He does when He does it, but I know that it is all for our good! God loves us and because of that, He will always do what is best for us at that time! God is real and He loves YOU!
I hope y'all have an amazing week and don't have to go dumpster diving for lost items any time soon :)
Love,
Sister Overson
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| This is how much more unhealthy Whataburger is than Chick-Fil-A. Just sayin' |
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| Super sketchy place we almost met a former investigator at, but the spirit said "NOOOOOOOOOOO!" So we didn't :) |
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| Sister Brown cut my hair! She has no experience cutting hair (well, now she does) but I just wanted a trim and she knows how to cut a straight line :) |
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| Me, Dumpster Diving - Aren't you proud, Mom?! |
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