Fathers, Happy Day!

Hey famoleeeeeee,

First of all, Happy Fathers day to the many fathers who are reading this! Thank you Grandpa, for your example and your love for us! Thank you Dad for all of your support and knowledge! Thank you Jacob for just being Christlike all the time! And Joseph, happy future father's day! I'm so excited for you! You will be a great father!

This week has been pretty good! We have had a good amount of success teaching with the ukulele! We have been able to see many more of the less active members by asking them if they would like to hear a song, then we work in a thought. The Daily Dose program is also going very well! The main lady we have been teaching with it has started bringing friends! They all love to pray in English, and it truly is an amazing thing to hear their humble prayers!

On Tuesday we had a great lesson with Sheril and she accepted our invitation to be baptised on the 13th of July. She has a great desire to learn more, and to change, but is having trouble because of the people and influences around her. She is moving in with her dad, who we are also teaching (He owned the "Elbow Room" which was rumored to be the sleaziest bar in the northwest), so hopefully that will help her with a lot of things! We'll keep working with her, and see how things go.

We had a very interesting experience the other night. Around 8:45, after a lesson with some less active members, our car decided not to start! We prayed and wiggled fuses around and did everything that we could think of, when I got a prompting that we needed to knock on the door of a less active member that we had not met yet. The Spirit told me that if we did this, our car would start. We knocked on the door, and met the man and his girlfriend and had a good conversation with them. We weren't able to teach a lesson or set up another appointment, but he invited us to come by some other time and gave us times that he is usually home. We went outside and the sun had come out, and our car started! It was a very strong witness for both Elder Wilson and I that God is real, and that we truly are in His hands!

That night, however, we had a similar witness from Satan, that he is real as well, and that he wants to destroy us! After planning we were just sitting there talking, when we started arguing about something very stupid. It got so bad that we both went to different rooms and had to read the scriptures to calm down! After a few minutes we talked again and could see that it was totally Satan doing that. It was the stupidest thing to fight about, and we both got very frustrated by it. We know that it was just Satan trying to get his kicks in after our witness of God. It was a lot like Moses and his experience with seeing God, then being tempted by satan. It was a very good learning experience, and has made our companionship stronger.

One of the members here is a cop, and we went by his house one day and interrupted a star wars party that he was having with some other cops. That should tell you how much there is to do here in Dutch Harbor..... Anywho, we had a good lesson with them and one of the cops has started to read the Book of Mormon!

Saturday night we were wondering what we should do, when we drove by Forest, another less active member. He asked us to help him out with some construction, so we are helped him out, and are helping out tonight! I got to build some stairs while Elder Wilson stained a lot of wood! It was pretty fun, but this man talks a thousand miles an hour, and poor Elder Wilson keeps having to ask him to speak slower! He's started to read the Book of Mormon again!

Things are going well here! Hope all is well for ya'll down south!

Much love and Prayers,
Elder Gullerud

Email dated June 17, 2013