Another lovely week, in lovely Grand Junction :)
You will never believe an experience we had this week. On the side of a mountain in the middle of nowhere. Luckily I got a picture to prove to you all that I'm not pulling your leg. Actually I could have taken the picture and made up the story, but you all know I could never make up something this good.
S,o Sister Bennett and I ventured up to a beautiful city named Collbran. The people up here pronounce it Coleburn. It is the prettiest place I have ever seen in my entire life! Especially with all of the changing colors!! It's a tiny town placed in the middle of the mountains. I might just live there someday.
Any ways, the reason why we were out there was because we were on our way to track down the relief society president's house because we needed to get to know her better and figure out what people she would like us to visit in Collburn. Little did we know that the GPS had other plans for us. The gps lead us to this narrow dirt road headed directly straight up a mountain. The gps told us to turn on this sketchy, muddy, rocky road and Sister Bennett assured me that the gps was wrong and it was further up the mountain. So we kept trudging straight on up the road we were originally on. As we drove further up the mountain we passed some hunters trucks and trailers. Ironically deer were just chilling by these trucks and the poor hunters were nowhere to be found ha-ha we got a good kick out of that. We kept driving and driving until we ended up at this tiny little shack that said. Absolutely NO TRESPASSING. It looked more like Sasquatch would live there than the relief society president. So we concluded that it actually was the road we passed earlier. So we drove back to it and assessed the situation. The mud wasn't TOO deep and the rocks didn't seem TOO big. And if the relief society president can make it up here....we better be able to! So we decided to go for it.......yeah we made it twenty feet and then we got high centered on a lovely little, evil rock. Yeah I was driving.....but hey my little Geo Prism made up Smithfield Canyon on a road that seemed WAY worse than this one. I just didn't realize that not all cars are as amazing as Leo the Geo. You would either need Leo or a monster truck to get up that crazy road.
Sister Bennett, the Canadian farm girl, switched me seats to see if she could get the car off it. But that little rock was bound and determined to keep us there until Sasquatch really DID come around. We both got out and assessed the situation. I knelt in the mud to see if I could possibly dig under the rock to get it out. But with no avail. When I got up Sister Bennett said, "Let's say a prayer," Right when she said that another hunter in his truck drove passed the road we were stuck on. I waved my arms in the air kind of jokingly because I didn't think he would see us, but thanks to heaven he DID!! He pulled over and started walking up to us. We sheepishly walked to him and he asked, "How are you ladies doing?" I said, "kind of embarrassed" he laughed and said "Are you stuck??" sister Bennett said "NO, ok yes!" This guy was super nice he walked up to the car to see what was going on and we decided the best option was to get a 4 X 4 and drive the car backwards over the 4 X 4 to get over the rock. So, he went back to his trailer and we followed. We had this guy laughing tons because of how weird the situation looked. He was like, "What in the world are you even doing out here?" And we were like "we are trying to visit this lady but we aren't even sure she lives up this road." He was amazed that we served for 18 months. (Probably because we looked like idiots ha-ha) He asked me how long we had been there and I told him 2 weeks ( thought he referred to how long we had been serving in grand junction) and he laughed and was like, "No, how long have you been stuck here?" Feeling silly and wanting to redeem myself I said, "Oh ha-ha well we have been stuck for......2 weeks, just kidding only about 5 minutes." We found out this guy is married and lives in Parker, CO but he works in the hunting business and loves to hunt. He said his high school use to be across the street from a Mormon church so he knew quite a few Mormons. He actually is from WASHINGTON!!! He asked us a couple more questions about our missionary work. When the car was unstuck and we got out of that mess our shoes and nylons were covered in mud. But we didn't care at all as long as we got out of there. At the very end, Brett, the guy, gave us a huge unexpected hug and made us take a picture with him because he said his buddies would never believe this story. So, I got my camera out too and we snapped a picture together. After that we told Brett about the Book of Mormon and about how it has changed our lives and it is the main reason why we were out here getting ourselves stuck on dirt/mud roads. We told him how desperately we want everyone to hear about the gospel and asked him if he wanted a copy. He said SURE! He told us that he would have tons of time by himself and he would love to read it. I pulled on out of my purse and marked 3 Nephi 11 and bore my testimony about how I knew the book of Mormon is true. It was the most amazing experience EVER. Everything was such perfect timing that I knew that it was all meant to be. And the best part is, if Brett does get baptized one day. He will have the hands down, best conversion story ever!!!! So hopefully right now as we speak/email Brett is in the mountains somewhere reading the Book of Mormon and the spirit is testifying to him that it is true. Just goes to show that Heavenly Father (or our GPS) has a pretty good sense of humor and you never know what next adventure he is preparing you for. I love you guys so much and I hope you are having a wonderful week. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving by the way ha-ha. I'M THANKFUL FOR YOU ALL!!!! Love you!!
Love Sister Jones
P.s. The relief society president didn't even live up that road! She lived 100 yards back from the road the gps took us to.
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