Monday, March 30, 2015
FHE, Two New, Insubordination Bantering, Pizza Trucks?
So may I first start off with a preemptive obituary for my said Golden
and Companion.... We went shopping today and since his money has been
moved to my card for the time being we made one purchase. Let's just
cut to the chase and only mention that his purchase included several
cookies, microwave hamburgers, and other said junk items :/. He has
obtained a new nickname "Goito" from yesterday which I will explain at
a later time in this letter.
So I'm glad to hear that y'all had a good week this past week however
I will mention my jealousy of y'all being able to go to the
grandparents houses ;). However, as I sat and thought earlier this week
just how quick things are coming at me and I need to get stuff done
here before I can't!
So last week we played basketball with the ap's which was a lot of fun
since Toilolo left back in November and Watt replaced him they stopped
coming to all of the fun activities where we actually got to know
them. Though my basketball skills are terrible I am happy to report
four wins out of five games with me shooting a three while one of the
missionaries taunted me rather than guarding me haha.
After that we went to Brother Abad's for FHE which hasn't happened for
a very long time. He had forgotten but we got the one legged man out
onto the stoop with our good friend Brother Lott and had a good time
as well as a lesson. Brother Abad is one of those types where the moon
could be falling on top of him and he would still have a joke or two
to go down with so he told us a story about a certain member in our
congregation who though it funny to send him a job application for
IHOP, haha.
Tuesday morning we were with Mike most of the morning. He's been
going through a lot of depression with his broken foot and not being
able to really go and do anything because of it. We had brought the
prep booklets for the temple for him so that we can make that a future
goal for him. It was a super good lesson and it was definitely what
he needed at that time. We have also been doing a lot of tracting
which I'll talk about in the coming paragraph.
So that door that we had knocked two weeks before and found a man
named Vince. Well we had set up to see him on Wednesday and when we
went by and knocked we got nothing which was super disappointing! But
while I was writing a sorry we missed you card, Elder Crowther saw him
coming from the train station near by so we waited for him. Said he
was sorry and had forgotten and since he had an insurance lady coming
he wanted to reschedule. Well as we were figuring a time out he asked
us about some of our beliefs and thus we had a lesson about the
restoration of the gospel and a few "other" categories. Get
people talking and nothing else matters. We are seeing him again this
Wednesday. Also he's an ex Jehovahs Witness so this will be
interesting ;).
Just forgot but we also went and helped with the unlitter us program
cleaning up the streets of Philly earlier that morning.
District meeting on Thursday went surprisingly well. It was on the
topic of finding new people which I haven't had the most experience
with and really didn't have much of a lesson until the morning of. You
gotta really hand it to the big guy upstairs for things like is, but I
do worry that his back hurts from time to time carrying this team :3.
Thursday then proceeded to become one of those days where nothing
seemed to hold and no one really wanted to talk to you. However while
we were out walking and searching we came across the zone leaders with
Ray Gant doing more service with the unlitter us campaign so not
having to much to do we helped them in our proselyting clothes! It was
good but it was within the second worst part of our area, so I picked
up a lot of needles that day ):P!
Later that night we went and stopped by a referral that we had
received requesting a bible. It was located in the worst part of our
area and it was getting dark! On our way into the area there were six
cop cars at a right aid having already arrested a guy so that was a
warm welcoming. The mans name was Andy and when we knocked someone
opened he blinds and then shut them. Just making sure we didn't have
the wrong house we knocked the neighbors door and he said yes they do
so we went and knocked it again when Andy answered.
Super cool guy, his wife had thought we were Jehovahs Witnesses and
thus didn't open the door. Had a mini restoration lesson, already
believes in the God Head but he has some interesting beliefs in Mary
so we shall see. Wanted to learn more about us so this will be fun!
Friday we went to the Layton/Browns. Only thing different is that one
of the guys who's been living there for the past two months named John
participated in our lesson on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When he
first got there he wouldn't barely even look our way but we had a good
discussion with him and we left him with a Book of Mormon and Bible
which was really sweet.
We had Sister Wasco for dinner later that night as well, along with the
Heal family there.
I know we all have food we dislike but thank you for raising me the
way y'all did. Cause even when I don't like the food out here I at
least take a bit and eat ya know? I never really realized just how...
Rude I guess it is not to eat the food you've been given, ya know? Oh
well we got more important things to work on ;).
Saturday I'm not to sure what happened for most the day. We saw
Michael and tried to have a lesson on the temple but since he
didn't seem to care we just went for a "go for broke" lesson. Nothing
really planned and just asked a ton of questions so we then could talk
about things that really got him to think. He will soon be
reactivated.
So we come to Sunday.... So I have to decided whether or not the other
Elders in my district have a border change to have temple campus in
their area. The zone leaders asked me to discuss it with them and the
answer I received back from the senior companion was that even if I
asked them not to work there that they still would :/.... >.<. Also
didn't say the most kind things about my companion when I was talking
about having exchanges. He apologized but still.
So we will see.
We went to Sister Rios's, it was her last rcla lesson since we are now
counting her as reactivated. Had some of her super good hot
chocolate which we got the recipe for finally and then we had a great
lesson to match it. We watched 'I will not fail thee nor forsake thee'
by President Monson. We then had a kinda sorta lesson with Jen. She
invited us over for her daughters birthday.
Then Mike and Dana.
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