Hey Family and Friends,
This week has been an interesting week full of fun and excitement. It all started on Monday after emailing and stuff where we all went to the hospital to get our clergy passes to go inside. It was really cool. We just got our pictures taken and our ministerial certificates shown plus the lady went on and on about a spread of infection that should be treated very carefully when we visit a patient who has one. We also played the slug bug game during the day but when we play it, after we get hit we have to scream as if justice has been violated.
Tuesday was just apartment deep clean day and we got taken out by Sister Briggs to a small buffet place which was really good. It’s in the Harrisonburg mall so it’s really weird walking through a mall and seeing society again. The last time we did anything like that was in Lawrenceville. We ended the day by chatting with a member, Sister Fuller. She has notions about the relationship between our church and the Pentecost. The ancient church wasn’t called Pentecostal, but in a way some of their beliefs are like ours.
Wednesday: the main thing we did was go to members’ houses to give them blessings. I gave two, one to B. Hartman and one to B. Franke and they really enjoyed them a lot. It’s great having the priesthood and being able to bless lives. We then had dinner with the Herricks and the kids were really funny. I would just look at their little girl and she would start laughing (the added funny faces probably kicked it.) We tried to see less active members that day, as well.
Thursday: I wanted to be funny for district meeting so I put on this old yellow coat that was in the closet over my suit and walked into district meeting with it on. It was really funny. I gave a training about the doctrine of Christ. I took each principle and related each one to how the investigators are blessed or the fruit they receive from living that principle. Then I related their blessings to the ones the missionaries receive to bless them in their work. I blew some minds that day and ended that the doctrine of Christ was the Atonement. It was good. After that, we walked to Wendy’s and while our district leader and his comp walked ahead, we tracted some to help Elder Burbank get some rest for his arms on the crutches. We actually found someone interested from our first door – they said we could come back. Too bad it will be the Harrisonburg 2nd Elders that get to see him. After that, we tracted some random neighborhoods and found some interested people. One guy told us, "My religion is love, ties are good, and keep on trucking." We think he was high. This other guy in Keezeltown told us he was a Satanist. His hair was dyed on the tips and his eyes were weird and wide open the whole time. We ate at a really nice restaurant named the Woodgrill with the Butlers. It was so good!
Friday: We talked to a drunk guy whose name was Ken. Shirtless and fat, he told us he was a pagan from being in a biker gang and asked repeatedly if we could help him with figuring out a handshake involved with satanism. Like we could help. A Progressive insurance car drove by and he got nervous and thought it was the cops. The funniest quote from him was: "I always have god with me because I have my dog and dog is god spelt backwards." Then his friend Bubba, white skinny guy, came down the stairs and fell flat on his butt on the last step. Elder Moon talked to him and told him he was drunk. Bubba said he wasn’t drunk but that he was drinking. Whoo! We also went to a Young Women spaghetti dinner where they had a silent auction and I bid on a pair of sunglasses. Then the auction turned into a real auction (with someone auctioning stuff aloud) since not enough funds were raised from the silent auction.
Saturday: we helped clean the church, did walk 'n talk which we followed the direction of a helicopter seed, and went into a store which sold all these party costumes and flags. I got a stars and bars flag. During the following of the seed though, we met a JW who was nice but didn’t believe in the laying on of hands and she told us how one becomes one of the 144,000 which was just somehow knowing that you’re one of the 144,000. She tried to explain it by comparing it to knowing the color blue. Weird. We also talked to a lady named Katrina who was interested and a couple of atheist college kids. We also hung out with the Spanish-speaking Elders during dinner and I made a Jello cake for Sister Franke because they told us that we were their children. We found Elder Burbank’s camera in our apartment so I took some hostage photos of it
Sunday: just church. We asked people to do splits with us. We did Skype with our families for Mother’s Day, which was awesome. Elder Quiambao spoke to his family in Tagalog which was very entertaining. It’s such a cool language.
Well enjoy the week’s update and meboti meboti (good good). Love you all,
Elder McClure
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