Hey people!
This was a good week for Elder McClure. We still had the really quiet days, but we have been doing a new style of finding where we go through the potientials in the areabook and pay them a visit. It’s really interesting just going around. We've been brought to a lot of weird places. One place had graffiti of "dis the hood" which was a little humorous. We have been doing anything to be creative so we have just done a lot of tracting.
We found 2 new investigators today: One in Broadnax - the last house we tracted into. We contacted this guy named Brian Brown. He let us in and started going off on how the churches aren’t doing what they are supposed to and this and that while this old black sitcom is playing on the TV right beside me. It was funny and, the best part, he’s still interested in the gospel! He has a very old house. The second person who let us in was a lady and she was pretty cool, too. When we were tracting around her house, we saw a florescent pink house like the one I lived by in Oregon – they both look terrible.
On the eve of Valentine’s Day we went to sleep over at the Hopewell elders’ apartment again so we could make it to the zone meeting. It’s hard to get a ride because all the members are teachers and busy in the afternoon. So anyway, we went to the Valentine’s Conference and it’s all about companion study and being unified. Stuff like that. Sister Perry had a training on color coding personalities. She gave a lot of hearts to the elders and sisters – the hearts were supposed to go on cupcakes. It was funny. We stayed after for Elder Low to get his temple recommend interview because he is leaving soon. We got a ride home with Brother Lewis and he played this CD with the Monty Python round table song while Elder Low tried to drown it out with silence and scripture study.
We also had dinner with a less active family - the Hardys. They tried to feed a pregnant mouse to a snake. It was a little crazy from the snake not eating the mouse until way later. The Hardys nicknamed me Elder Curfew because I kept saying “It’s almost our curfew.” It was funny.
Church was also really small, even at 5 minutes before the meeting started, but that was from the ice and snow that happened the day before. Then the second sleepover was when the Wakefield elders came to spend Sunday night and the P-day with us. After P-day, Elder Zollinger and I stayed in Lawrenceville and Elder Low and Elder Atkinson went to Wakefield.
Elder Z. and I went to the Pearces and played the headband guessing game. Then the Pearce’s dog Dominic, a wierd combo breed dog, tried to hump my leg and I so was not having it. We left and we went to a pizza place and stuffed ourselves with Stromboli. Elder Z just tells all the funny stories about Lawrenceville and I actually had my first energy drink with him which gave me no buzz just as I had guessed.
Well, have a good week and I will update you again next week.
Elder McClure
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