2Lovellscalled2serve: Selwin's New Year

Monday, January 5, 2015

Selwin's New Year

Transfer day

Happy New Year, one and all!!!! I know there was a lot of resolutions made for 2015. I hope being closer to the Savior was one of them.

We got the new years off and running and I mean that in the most literal way. We were out tracting in the country and came across a fenced yard with three (3) huge dogs. On our way up the street we didn't pay them any mind but they just kept barking at us, so I devised a plan on our way back when we would play a little game.

At the Bernhardts

I handed my companion my bag and camera, which he didn't use, and decided the game would be sprinting. I raced those four-legged beasts and beat them, even though I totally forgot I had on my boots and not my shoes, but I still nailed it. We visited one of our investigators this weekend and told him of the importance of attending church and guess what? He came and really enjoyed it. Church is where the spirit can be felt the strongest and where the Holy Ghost can testify to our souls.

It was an amazing and spirit filled sacrament meeting, where the Holy Ghost bore and testified to our souls of the will of God. We should treasure his companionship always.

3 Nephi 28:11 reads: "And the Holy Ghost beareth record of the Father and Me and the Father giveth the Holy Ghost to the children of men because of me"

So let us help those who don't know of this truth find it.

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Funny, interesting or amazing things they say

May 15 - Selwin spoke twice today - once in the Southgate 3rd Ward and then at Brookdale's Sacrament meeting. After the meeting one sister approached him and whispered in his ear saying, "my sister always told me to 'never forget how important you are'."

The second sister told him, "you should always smile because your dimples are so adorable!"

April 3, 2016 - The Cannon's, who had returned home on Friday after 18-months managing missionary apartments in the Mississippi Jackson Mission, stopped by the house to deliver a package from Elder Selwin who they described as "an exceptional missionary and an outstanding young man."

March 16, 2015 - Hi, my name is Deborah Albert, and your son (Elder Selwin) is here serving in my town (Gulfport) right now. I just wanted to tell you that he is a pretty awesome missionary !! We like him a lot !!

May 7 - Almost every day someone asks about our missionary twins. Today it was my doctor. We chatted briefly about how they're doing and how well Simeon and Selwin were integrated into our ward / neighborhood. "It doesn't surprise me," he said, "because they are fine young men and so easy to like!"

May 5 – We were at a funeral and in the middle of the service my caller ID showed an incoming call from "Jackson, MS." Since I only know ONE person in Jackson, MS, I jumped up to take the call, my heart pounding fearing something might have happened to Elder Selwin since missionaries are only allowed to call home on Mothers' Day and Christmas. I answered to hear a familiar voice asking, "Hi, do you know who this is?” It seems they can still make me smile - even from a thousand miles away!

April 1 - Kenrick Benn writes: The time is just around the corner when “our” two sons will be out in the mission field. I believe those two can convert even the hardest heart. Sister Benn and I would like to thank you two wonderful people for all you have done for us and for the two young men I love as a father loves his sons.

March 24, 2014 - Upon our return from SoCal, Selwin sheepishly said, "if you left the car in the driveway and the keys on the hook as a test, you should know, I failed!"