Sorry, I have been a bit busy. Everything has been going great out here. I am trying my hardest to stay uplifted and strong. It is suppose to snow here again this week and everyone is going to go crazy again in Georgia. Bread and milk will be gone again. I was wondering if you might be able to send me my little scriptures that have a snap and my name on them so I can have another set to have out here and mark scriptures maybe just a bit differently. That would be awesome. I have been craving Springville water--I wish you could send that. The water here in Georgia is not as good!
The weather has been great this past week and we have been going out and finding some great people at the GGC (the college where we find most of our Young Single Adults) We just found this amazing guy. His name is Seth and he has truly been searching for some reasons in his life and we know the answers. The Spirit is always there and strong while we teach him. He is the most solid guy we have found. He wants to be a doctor in Africa. We have met with him twice and on Tuesday it will be our third.
I can say that you can find people almost everywhere to teach. I talked to our car wash guy for a good 30 minutes about the church while Elder Fowers was vacuuming our car. It was an awesome experience.
There is this guy named Jacob Reha. He has been less active in the church for most of his life. We had the coolest experience with him. He came to church on fast Sunday and he got up and left half way through. But then he came back and bore his testimony and it was awesome. We went to his house a few days later and he let us in. He never does that. We talked to him for a while and shared a message and he came to church again this week. Wow--that was sweet.
There are some new rules in my mission again about Elders and Sisters. We are now not allowed to be in the same building as them unless it is for district meetings and zone meetings. There are going to be some more rules put into place when we go to zone teaching in a few days. The whole mission is going to be there and our mission president is going to take 30 minutes and put some new rules in play. I heard that Mission Presidents get more strict their last six months and I can see that.
Funniest and coolest experience out tracking this week. We were going down this street--no one was even opening their doors to us. One lady even yelled from the other side of the door, "Get away from my door!" We knocked on another door and we could hear heavy metal rock playing in the basement. They sounded okay for a metal band. Two guys came out of the door and they were tattooed up and had nose rings like bulls. They were very friendly and then a few more came to the door after a bit and we just answered some basic questions about what we believe and then 4 more people came out from the garage with beers and some drugs of some sort and they all just passed it around the group while everyone was listening to us teach them and asked a few more questions here and there and then more people came from inside the house and started listening. Then two cars pulled up and a bunch more people got out and we were surrounded and they started listening to us. They were all cool and just having a good time listening to us and asking questions. I think they liked us a lot and most of them were cool with us coming back and teaching them more. That was a cool time.
We met with Derek Mann, a less active yesterday and he is a total gamer. He goes to work and then comes home and plays games like they were his real life. He starts so many games and has to finish them. He plays like 10 hours a day and is like a professional gamer that makes money from winning games on line. It's not how people should spend life. One game after another--it's crazy! He spends all of his money on games and has no where to go at this point in time. I have learned on the mission that college and spending time with real people is very important. I have found so many people just think they are having the best time of their life on a computer away from everyone and everything and not enjoying life. I promise that I will not be like that. I need to really enjoy what life has to offer.
I gave a talk on Sunday. We got a call on Saturday evening and they needed someone to give a talk so we had to write a talk in like an hour and it was so stressful. I gave a talk on charity. It was an okay talk with only a little while to write it.
Transfers are next Wednesday. Fun. I will be officially trained and could potentially be training a new missionary new transfer which I don't think would be good-- I still fell like a very green missionary.
The weather has been great this past week and we have been going out and finding some great people at the GGC (the college where we find most of our Young Single Adults) We just found this amazing guy. His name is Seth and he has truly been searching for some reasons in his life and we know the answers. The Spirit is always there and strong while we teach him. He is the most solid guy we have found. He wants to be a doctor in Africa. We have met with him twice and on Tuesday it will be our third.
I can say that you can find people almost everywhere to teach. I talked to our car wash guy for a good 30 minutes about the church while Elder Fowers was vacuuming our car. It was an awesome experience.
There is this guy named Jacob Reha. He has been less active in the church for most of his life. We had the coolest experience with him. He came to church on fast Sunday and he got up and left half way through. But then he came back and bore his testimony and it was awesome. We went to his house a few days later and he let us in. He never does that. We talked to him for a while and shared a message and he came to church again this week. Wow--that was sweet.
There are some new rules in my mission again about Elders and Sisters. We are now not allowed to be in the same building as them unless it is for district meetings and zone meetings. There are going to be some more rules put into place when we go to zone teaching in a few days. The whole mission is going to be there and our mission president is going to take 30 minutes and put some new rules in play. I heard that Mission Presidents get more strict their last six months and I can see that.
Funniest and coolest experience out tracking this week. We were going down this street--no one was even opening their doors to us. One lady even yelled from the other side of the door, "Get away from my door!" We knocked on another door and we could hear heavy metal rock playing in the basement. They sounded okay for a metal band. Two guys came out of the door and they were tattooed up and had nose rings like bulls. They were very friendly and then a few more came to the door after a bit and we just answered some basic questions about what we believe and then 4 more people came out from the garage with beers and some drugs of some sort and they all just passed it around the group while everyone was listening to us teach them and asked a few more questions here and there and then more people came from inside the house and started listening. Then two cars pulled up and a bunch more people got out and we were surrounded and they started listening to us. They were all cool and just having a good time listening to us and asking questions. I think they liked us a lot and most of them were cool with us coming back and teaching them more. That was a cool time.
We met with Derek Mann, a less active yesterday and he is a total gamer. He goes to work and then comes home and plays games like they were his real life. He starts so many games and has to finish them. He plays like 10 hours a day and is like a professional gamer that makes money from winning games on line. It's not how people should spend life. One game after another--it's crazy! He spends all of his money on games and has no where to go at this point in time. I have learned on the mission that college and spending time with real people is very important. I have found so many people just think they are having the best time of their life on a computer away from everyone and everything and not enjoying life. I promise that I will not be like that. I need to really enjoy what life has to offer.
I gave a talk on Sunday. We got a call on Saturday evening and they needed someone to give a talk so we had to write a talk in like an hour and it was so stressful. I gave a talk on charity. It was an okay talk with only a little while to write it.
Transfers are next Wednesday. Fun. I will be officially trained and could potentially be training a new missionary new transfer which I don't think would be good-- I still fell like a very green missionary.