Member Presents, Fruitless but Funny Tracting, Men's Breakfast

Hi Everyone,

This crappy computer is out to get me. I hate it! Well, with the remainder of time that I have, I’ll tell you about my week, which was pretty good. We had another boring p-day but got to write a lot of letters out to people. The rest of the week was summed up in tracting and member presentation lessons. We had a few random areas in a couple of cities to tract.  The first was Broadnax on the way to South Hill. We tracted so much in this one part and everyone said no. We were actually circled by two dogs, but by walking backwards and threatening them with my keys they kept at bay. We also got to talk to these two older ladies. Elder Low calls everyone brother and sister so they were both Sister Crenshaw. We asked if they had read the Restoration pamphlet and we tried to teach them about it but they just said, “Oh, it’s a nice book. I like it.”  We also went out to La Cross and came across a black Jehovah’s Witness in a wheelchair.

We just have been tracting and trying to find new people. On Feburary 28, we had 100 extra miles so we went to Valentines, Virginia to check it out. There was just a post office, but there were some people taking pictures there because of its name. We went down to Lake Gaston and tracted but everyone was gone there, too. We had a fun time with a member presentation where we brought B. Jones with us to teach Tiffany about scripture study. Her little boy was taking things out of my backpack and giving them to me and when I would put them back in, he would take them out.  Pretty cute!

We brought Marcus to Dorris' and she went off on him about bad influences – for her, she thinks this just indicates weakness. She talks a lot about her life and everything she has gone through – it’s interesting. She also had her fridge break down and then got another one. I was able to give a blessing to a member’s daughter, Daisy, who had some problems with her ear and has mono. After the blessing, S. Pearce, the mom, said she could feel the spirit, which made me feel good. We also got to talk with a less active family, the Raplees, about how they are doing and how we can help them out. The mom came to church the next day and it was pretty sweet.

We had a men’s breakfast, at which there was a lot of food. Not a big turn-out but people came to it. One of the members brought a lot of bacon in order to test his theory that there is such a thing as leftover bacon, but we established it doesn’t exist.  J  

Church was really cool because all these people came:  a few of the less actives and Tiffany (right on, Tiffany!) and she even bore her testimony. It was really cool to see a lot of members at church again. After church, we got to have a cool discussion with a guy named Nick Russo who said if he received a witness he would join the church.  Of course, we hope that he does and that he will.  He’s a great guy.

Anyway, that’s my week!  I love you all!  Thanks for your letters and prayers.

Elder McClure