This week has been super great! and i am getting along great with my
companion Elder Thompson. We have one more week until transfers so we
will see what happens.. i am hoping to stay with him for at least one
more but there is a ton of new elders coming into the mission soon so
who knows what president has up his sleeves. We had a great new years
eve day! That night we went over to one of our part member families
the Crawfords and were there until midnight.. shhh... dont tell
anybody haha. We went to visit Perry Cox the next day and he was just
sleeping under his tarp. We were actually going over to help him with
some service but ended up teaching him in our service clothes because
that is what he wanted. The next day our ward mission leader had us
over in his huge house for pizza and then we taught Perry again with a
member there. We taught him the Restoration and he had lots of
questions but it was a good lesson.
We had a few service projects this last week. On friday we went to
help out a non-member old lady that our ward mission leader knows.
This lady has cancer and it was good to be able to help her out with
her needs. The very next day we went over to Perry's place with
another set of Elders and then some members from the ward came to
help. We had to move a bunch of perrys junk because the guy he lives
with is kicking him out of his little hut that he made. and the worst
part about this situation was the guy was making him pay to live in
this little shelter that he built as he freezes his butt off! That
made me super pissed to know that! We spent a good 4 hours helping him
that day. He was able to come to church the next day too for the
second week in a row and so he is showing a lot of interest. The only
problem with him is.. since he is homeless he asks for help and
handouts all the time and he isnt aware of anyone elses time except
his.. so that is a little opstacle we have to work around.
The reason this email came later in the day instead of this morning is
because we went to a place called Top Golf! Its a driving range on
Steroids! Literally! All of the golf balls have chips in them and you
hit them in these holes and you get scored.. its like playing darts
with your friends but golf instead.. look it up on the computer its
amazing! One more thing i wanted to add.. this week around 10 at night
we heard speeding in our apartment complex. Me being a "Curious
George" went outside to find out what was going on and there were cop
cars everywhere and they were pulling some guy out of a truck.. well
our neighbors had the same curiosity as us and so they were outside
talking to us about it.. keep in mind that we are standing in gym
shorts and sweat shirts. Well we got to talking to this lady named
Diedra and she asked us if we lived next to the Jesus girls and I said
we replaced them.. we are the Jesus Boys. So we got talking about
religion and had a really good conversation with her about the gospel
and church in general. Either the mission teaches you about talking to
people about the gospel or it really is that simple! You dont need to
be in a white shirt and tie to bring up the gospel! you can do it in
gym shorts and sweatshirts!
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