Last Monday, I hurt my shoulder playing volleyball. Tuesday morning, I couldn't lift my arm above my shoulder. After seeing an urgent care doctor, and an Orthopedic Surgeon, they have diagnosed me with a strained rotator cuff muscle. I have another appointment with the surgeon June 1st. Hopefully it is fully  healed by then! He said I have to take it easy with playing sports. That was a HUGE bummer to hear! I look forward to playing basketball every Monday! Oh well. It will heal, and I will be able to play again soon.

 

So early in the week, we hadn't been able to see Rajeev! It was SO frustrating! We were practically playing phone tag, except he would never tag back... haha. He was never home when we went to see him, and would send us texts like "sorry I missed your call elders, will call back later" and he never would. So thursday night, Elder Rausch and I were planning for the next day. Rajeev called us. Elder Rausch answered the phone and started talking to him. He then put the phone on speaker, and told Rajeev that I could hear him. I looked at Elder Rausch with a puzzled look on my face, and I got the same look in return. Rajeev told us that he had been doing a lot of thinking. A LOT of thinking. And decided that he was ready to be baptized!!!!!!!!!! It was so cool!!!!! He said that he doesn't want to set a date until he tells his kids (who live with his ex-wife), but he feels he is ready to take that step in his life. FINALLY! We took him to a convert baptism in a different ward, and it help a lot! He was able to see how the ordinance is performed, and feel the spirit. He liked it a lot. That was a huge testimony builder for me! Taking investigators to baptisms is such a powerful tool in a missionaries arsenal. He felt the spirit, and he even leaned over and told us that he knew that what he was watching was what he wanted. He is even talking about speaking at missionary firesides as a recent convert! We have taken him to so many devotionals that are put on by our mission president. I think he is looking forward to sharing his conversion story with others. He told us that he wants the opportunity to serve, and that's one of the things he likes most about the LDS Church. He will make an amazing member of the church. He talks to his children this upcoming weekend. I pray that everything goes well!!!!

 

We weren't able to see Alyssa all week. She said that her grandmother was in town, and didn't want to start a fight (I guess her grandmother is Southern Baptist, and hate's Mormons). We had a lesson scheduled with her for tomorrow night, but she called us today and cancelled. BUT she said that she was avaliable Saturday, so hopefully we will see her then!

 

There is a kid in the ward that I am in that I have mentioned before. His name is Robby, and he is a  really good skateboarder. He is 9 years old. Well last fast sunday, he got up and bore his testimony. He said in his testimony "Everytime Elder Litchfield comes over for dinner, he asks me what my top priorities are. I tell him that it goes 1)church, 2)Family, 3)School, and 4)Skateboarding." He then said "I want to be a missionary just like him." It was such an amazing moment in my life. This last week, we had dinner over at their house, and his Dad told me that he had no idea that Robby was going to do that. His mom didn't either. I was honored to have him say such kind words. He is going to be an incredible missionary.

 

Transfers are this week! They always make me so nervous! I don't know if I am staying or going! Plus the office doesn't send out any mail this week! I have to wait till after transfers for them to send it out. It's kind of a bummer.

 

Elder Michael Litchfield