Any Friend of Jesus is a Friend of Mine

Hey everyone! This week was fantastic! We saw so many miracles and it was honestly a ton of fun! Here's what happened:

Highlights:

-We found this cool little town in our area I hadn't been to yet called Fort Langley. We walked around and had some great conversations! It reminded me a bit of downtown St. George, just much greener! 

-Here's one thing we did this week that was a bit stupid not gonna lie. We had a lesson in Surrey, and we are driving back to Langley which was about a 20min drive. We were on a phone call with some Sisters when a guy honks at us and tells us that one of our tires is super flat. So we pull over and sure enough it looks pretty deflated. We weren't sure if it was just low tire pressure or a leak so we took it to a tire place. When we got there they told us they could get us in in 2 & 1/2 hours. So guess what we did? We drove on the potentially leaky tire back to Langley, ate lunch, and drove back to the shop. We found out after that we had a screw in the tire and it was a pretty good leak. God really helped us out there. Was it the best idea? Probably not. 

-While our car was getting fixed we walked around Surrey a bit. As we were walking around we noticed a lot of people had 7/11 slurpees. We were a bit confused, but kept walking. Eventually we remembered it was July 11th and we rushed to the closest 7/11 for a free slurpee. It was a pretty hot day so it made us very happy. 

-Another day we went to Coquitlam to do some finding, and the second we left our car, this guy rushes up to us and is like "Elders, Elders, we gotta meet up sometime". So we said sure and set up a lesson the following day with him. But before we left he said "Any friend of Jesus is a friend of mine" and gave us each a hug. It was kinda wierd but funny too. The next day we met him at the mall, and it was a wild lesson. We were pretty sure he was high the whole time and he called us handsome about 40 times. But we shared a short message and passed him off to the Coquitlam Elders. It was an interesting experience, but pretty cool. 

-Satya's Baptism! It was such a spiritual Baptism! His brother from California(Who's a member) was even able to come! Seriously I've never seen Satya happier. We also got most the YSA to come as well(It helped that we did the Baptism right after church). 

Spiritual thought:

Me and Elder Smith listed to a great general conference talk this week. It was called Return and Recieve by President Ballard. It talks about the importance of goals and plans. I have definitely seen the importance of goal setting and planning on my mission. It really helps for the work to happen and to happen efficiently. But I wanted to invite each of you to read or listen to this talk and see what the Lord teaches you! 

Anyways, that's all for this week! Have a great week everyone! 

-Elder Biesinger

Pictures:

1. Slurpees

2-4. Steelhead(Cool nature walk in our area)

5. Satya's Baptism!