New Companion, Crazy Amount of Potentials, A Trio, and Shenanigans: March 18, 2013

Hey People,

We had a fun week this week. Monday was boring because Elder Zollinger isn’t around. We taught 3 lessons on Tuesday with 3 of the best investigators here. We got to teach Junior the gospel (I had taught him some time ago, when I was first out) and he said he will commit to a baptism date sometime in April, which is awesome! He remembers so much and I actually remember being one of the first missionaries talking to him. We had a lesson with Tiffany, which helped us get most of the lessons out of the way with 10 commitments. She actually chose me to baptize her!  It was sweet. Then when we were teaching Doris we also talked with Raquan and Doris’ daughter, Tyesha.  Tyesha has held onto the pain of losing her brother 15 years ago. I gave her a blessing and I felt the spirit so strong working through me as if I had personally talked to her from the Father. We got fed by a member and later, another member took us out to McDonalds.

Wednesday, we tracted with a member named Jerritt.  We found a bunch of people to talk to next Wednesday about the Book of Mormon.  We had this joke that day where we would say, "You know who else does ____? My mom!" We also talked to a former member and her boyfriend and he asked us what we believe in, so I gave him a 13 Articles of Faith card and explained to him what they meant.

 

Well during the rest of the week we got dropped by a part-member investigator family.  Boo! Bro. Lewis and I picked up my new companion, Elder Chapman, and Bro. Lewis broke him in by playing the Monte Python and the Holy Grail soundtrack.

We had an Easter activity on Friday where we did funny activities. I did pin the tail on the rabbit blindfolded and when the blindfold came on, all the kids started hitting me and Elder Chapman laughed. We also burst balloons and one zapped me hardcore when I sat on it. We had a fun game of Nerf swords with the Kings in their backyard. I was on Nate's team and he hit me right across the face at the end. Really lame. Elder Chapman and Elder Low are really quiet since they have been here, but Elder Chapman has a funny personality once you get it out of him. I guess I just bring people out of themselves when I am their companion. Elder Chapman has been out for 3 months and is from Lehi, Utah.

 For the rest of the week, I gave a bunch of pass along cards to kids with Jesus Christ on them and they love those cards. We did service for Nick Russo by pulling down boards and putting up new, non-rotting ones in their place. We found more people that were interested in listening. Elder Chapman got to throw a football with a small child. On Sunday, we got chastised for having Tiffany commit to baptism because the branch president thought she wasn’t ready and that we were going to baptize her into damnation. Crazy, but amends were made when there was an after church lunch where chili was served.

Cool thing:  a missionary named J.T. returned home from Uruguay.  He loved his mission, but lost a lot of pounds. He is super skinny.

 

Enjoy the email.  I love you all!

Elder McClure