This week has been really wet, lots and lots of rain. I always seem to forget my jacket when I need it the most, but when I wear it, it is hot as Hades. Turns out God does like to mess with people. Okay guys, I know that this is weird behavior for me, but I literally had the most awesome thing happen this week.
Wxxxxxx
So first off everyone rewind over a year ago when I was serving in Eldoret. One of our neighbors drove a super sick Subaru outback with red racing stripes. And I always wanted to talk to him to tell him that he had a super sick car. But I never got to cause he was always driving it and blasting music. He never really seemed liked someone who would be interested in our church. Well one day he called me and Elder Le Cheminant over cause he said he wanted a book. We gave him one and told him church was
on Sunday, and he was welcome. We kinda thought that would be the end but then HE SHOWED UP! So after kinda freaking out for a little bit, we sat with him showed him how to read the hymn book and sing and stuff, met with him, the whole missionary stuff. We taught his family a couple times then I got transferred.
Fast forward about nine months when I am sitting in DD Meeting and his name comes up for some Elders in Nairobi. So I asked afterwards for a little bit more background. Turns out he lost everything, his family, his car, his house, and then went to Nairobi and was hustling for work. Then he found the church again and started taking the lessons again. Then one night he was kicked out of the house he was staying at and went to a bar for some free water. Got some help now is back on his feet and GOT BAPTIZEDI! He just got the priesthood last week.
Now you are wondering why I would be telling you all this. So turns out Wxxxxxx never forgot that book from me and Le Cheminant. I was on exchanges in Nairobi and on our way to visit him, he found us on the road, and lit up and came over shouting ELDER TUCKER!!!!!! ELDER TUCKER YOU'RE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!! He gave me a nice hand shake bro. hug and then thanked me for that small gesture of giving him a book, and helping him get his life back with the lord. He told me all that happened and all he had been through, and he said, that he knew that he just had so much love and respect for me and Elder Le Cheminant that he had to stay true to us, and finish what he started. It was a truly tender moment for me to know that even though I didn't really do anything other than give out a book, and it changed this guys life forever! It was so sweet. I love that guy, he is so sick.
Some lessons from Wxxxxxx, is 1)don't judge to quick and 2)plant all the seeds you can, you will never know the harvest time.
HE GOT BACK WITH HIS WIFE AND HIS FAMILY!!! His wife will probably be baptized as well!
Welp that is it from me, have a great week
Elder Tucker
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