Hello Friends and Family,
We had a pretty interesting week this week. Elder Chapman is talking more and found out he loves the show Naruto. It’s really funny talking to him about it because of all the Japanese words and stuff in it. We had a fun time last Monday but it was super cold and rainy despite the earlier warm days.
On Tuesday we had a baptismal interview set up for Tiffany and I hoped that Elder Atkinson would schedule district meeting on the same day to save miles. He didn’t. We ended up being in Petersburg for the interview, but didn’t have much else to do. A return missionary in the area, J. T., and his mom drove us to Petersburg and we went to Walmart so J.T. could get a phone. It was funny to watch J.T. walk around Walmart since it was the first time in 2 years that he’s been in a store like that. We had lunch with JT and he showed us his mission pictures, which was cool. We then had Tiffany’s baptismal interview and her baptism was approved by Elder Atkinson. We spent the rest of the day just seeing people. Marcus introduced us to a referral named James Taylor. It was sweet.
Wednesday: everything we had planned fell through so we just tried to stay busy. We did play a bit of basketball with Marcus at the church, thinking James Taylor would show up there, but no. We talked with two of three teenage black girl potentials: Teona and Kayona. Teona was asking us questions about our living arrangements and gave us a very weird look when we told her we were all unmarried and living in the same apartment. J
On Thursday we had our district meeting. Elder Atkinson was scared stiff. I gave a training on member missionary work that was okay, but I always get jumbled around when I talk because no one else will talk during the training!!!! Afterward, we went on splits. I went with Bro. Lewis and Elder Low and Elder Chapman talked to B. Astrop. B. Lewis is such a funny guy that we went to the Pearce’s and just joked around with them. One of the daughters, Daisy, wants to go to the temple which made B. Lewis really happy. B. Lewis owed one of the daughters lunch so he bought Sonic for her. We also got a 25 dollar gift card to Applebees for dinner. Yeah!
Friday was the best and worst day of the week.We got to teach this lady named Jeanie who wants to be baptized, which is wonderful! We talked to her outside in the cold. Our discussion ended when one of her dogs carrying a chicken away still alive. That was weird. We also got to teach Tiffany with our branch president. She pushed her baptism date back a month which would be on April 20th, my B-day. Pres. Tetto kept bringing up Tiffany getting married to her boyfriend but I don’t think she'll take that option. After this interview, we met with Doris and found out her daughter read the Book of Mormon all the way up to Mosiah! Really sweet!
The rest of the week involved a service project with too many people and only a few of them doing any work. We also saw Junior and found out he will be gone for a couple of weeks. We had a delicious dinner at the Kings and a Nerf sword fight after. I dominated. Palm Sunday was good. We got to teach gospel principles. A less active member named Sister Raplee brought her nonmember son, Michael. The next day Michael was really interested in getting a Gospel Principles book. We gave a blessing to Nick Russo and when I was about to anoint his head, I felt an overpowering love for the guy. He was amazed that we had the kind of authority to provide a blessing for him. On Monday, the library closed for a little bit in the morning so we did laundry and helped Marcus out of a ditch (he got stuck in a ditch). We also played Republic of Rome with B. Rogers. Really fun game!
Well, I love you all and have fun in the real world.
Elder McClure
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