that I didn't email yesterday. But to make it up, I am emailing you
today! So this week was great! We hit a goal that Elder McInerny and I
set for our weekly goals. We had two member present lessons!!! Yay! It
is really rare to hit our goals and when we do, we feel really good
because when we plan, we plan to stretch us. So guess what!? We
stretched!!! I love me a good stretch.
So now the fun part! I get to tell you all about my trip to D.C!
Of course it was epic, but the decision came really late for us. It
all started about when we had just finished up our nightly routine and
we sat in the living room talking. I wanted of know what everyone had
planned for preparation day and we just go talking and someone threw
out the idea of going into D.C. so we all agreed that it would be way
fun! Ok. Now I got that part over with and here comes the adventure!
At ten, we leave our apartment in our adventure to he Huntington
metro station. A good seven miles away. We hopped on our bikes and
went to give a sister a blessing, then leave to the metro. We stayed
at the members house talking to her for about a half hour. You could
just tell that our visit made her day. Elder Seely anointed and then I
sealed the blessing. That was a great experience. You could just feel
God's love for her. This was probably the fourth or fifth blessing I
had given and you could really feel the spirit during is one. I hope
hat I said what Heavenly Father had planned for me to say, but the
Sister looked happy and comforted after, so that's good. After we
left, we were biking for about a mile or so until Elder Farnes got a
flat tire..... Of course. We were six miles away from our destination
and we just had to find some sort of reason to not go to D.C. We began
to call the zone leaders to se if we could catch a ride to the Metro
with them, but just as ye picked up, this older gentleman named Ralph
came out of nowhere and started talking to Elder Seely. Turns out that
he is a member of the church and lives in Maryland! He talks to us for
about fifteen minutes and comes to the conclusion that we are in quite
the conundrum. He then proceeds to offer us a ride to the Metro. We
happily and readily agree to his offer, so we chain our bikes up to a
pole and hop into his old Honda Accord Station wagon. What a tender
mercy that Heavenly Father gave us. I know that He is ALWAYS aware of
our individual situations and loves us enough to help us out with what
we desire most if it is his will. Thanks to Ralph, I have a testimony
of that.
We took the metro, used this futuristic bathroom (another story
for a future time), and hopped on a train. What then followed was soon
to be classified as the best trip into D.C. ever! We went to the
American history museum and I saw Dizzy Gilespi's Trumpet and
Coletrain's saxophone!!!!!! That was way too cool! We then went to
Good Stuff for food right by the capital. Mmmmmmm..... Then we looked
at the outside of the library there, and then checked out the capital
building. It was then off to the Air and Space museum. This quickly
became my favorite museum because of the flight simulators that they
had there. It was a space shuttle shaped capsule/ cockpit with an
interactive game inside. You could choose to be the pilot or the
gunner; I obviously chose the pilot. These simulators weren't just
those big red pod looking things, but they had the capability of doing
360's on the z-axis (barrel rolls). You could actually go upside
down!!! That was one of the coolest things I have done in a while!
Defiantly doing that one again. After that museum, we went to he
museum of natural history and spent our last half hour there. Can I
just say, I LOVE MUSEUMS!!! They are just the coolest.
Well, that' my week and adventures for this week. Sorry it was on
Tuesday and not MONDAY. I hope you all are loving life! Bye!!!
~ Elder Zac Snell :)
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