6.8.15

Hey hey!
It's been a great week! We have been busy and happy. Because of a set
back L is planning on getting baptized on June 27. So we are excited
to keep working with him to get to that. He is just awesome and is
neat to see the changes. I know I keep saying that but it is great!
The last time we met with him he told us that he has decided to start
over on reading the Book of Mormon because he wants to finish it,
cover to cover, by his baptism. It is neat that as we teach the truths
of the gospel and these correct principles that people aren't forced
to change, they are inspired to change. That is what the Light of
Christ does to people. It inspires them to change.
So we have a complex in our area that is three or four different
hospitals. Because of that we are often called to go and give
blessings, which I am very grateful to be able to do. It is a neat
thing to be able to administer to those in need. I bring this up now
because on Saturday we had a call that told us that their mom was in
the hospital and they wanted her to get a blessing. So we stopped by
at 3 shortly after we got the call. We were able to find her but she
happened to be asleep, after talking with the nurse who was looking
after her we decided that it would be best to come back later when she
would be awake. Fast forward to just finishing dinner. We had plans
for the night that would have kept us away from the hospital and it
would have been easy to stop by he hospital on our way to church in
the morning. We didn't know what would be better, so we said a prayer.
We both felt impressed that we needed to go that night. (Not gonna
lie, neither of us really wanted to bike all the way up there.) We
headed out and made it almost half way there when I heard Elder
Oxborrow behind me go off of something and then I was pretty sure I
heard his tire leaking. ( We have had a lot of flats lately, don't
really know why.) So we stopped and and took his tire off and tube
out. As he was doing so I was looking through my bag to find my
patches and they weren't there! Well this stinks, we are trying to do
what we have been impressed to do, but we had come to a screeching
halt. It would take us an hour to walk to the hospital, it would take
us an hour to walk home. I knew I had a little bit of duct tape, not
much but a little, that probably wouldn't work. I pulled out the phone
trying to think of a member who might be available to help us out, I
had a few in mind so I went to call and I got the prompting to just
try to fix it with what we had. Hm, ok. We can do that. I have done
crazier fixes before. So we took a look at his tube, it turns out that
he pinched it really good. So he has four holes all in the same area.
Oh wow, that would have been hard to patch even if we had four
patches, and we only have three inches of duct tape. So I put half of
the duct tape all the way around the tube, and then with the rest of
it I folded the tube in such a way that it put a little more pressure
to push the tube with holes tightly against another part of the tube.
Then we put the tire back on and pumped it up. It is holding! So we
start biking carefully and we made it the rest of the way to the
hospital. We went in gave the lady the blessing and it all worked out
great! Now we had to get back to the apartment. I was kinda expecting
the tire to be flat when we went back out. It wasn't, it had a little
less air in it then before so we put a little back in and rode home.
We rode about ten miles with it like that in total that night. It is
amazing to me that just as Nephi tells us in 1 Nephi 3:7 the Lord will
prepare a way to accomplish the thing which he has commanded us. Even
if it doesn't go as smoothly as we want it to, even if there is a few
bumps in the road, it will still be accomplished.

I will go and do, will you?
Elder Dane Olsen