Hey Family and Friends,
This was a week of many tales that I
will tell you. It was full of laughter, horror, and misrepresentation. The
first thing to report is that we have been dropped by an investigator Elder
Moon found named Judy. She was a nice lady but all of a sudden she texted us (in
all caps) that she is NO LONGER INTERESTED IN LEARNING, so that was totally
lame. One annoying detail is that we weren’t sure it was her at first because her
friends (actually, the people who use her) steal her phone a lot. So there was a possibility it was one of them
texting us. That same day, we taught an
investigator named Tommy Mizell with B. Franke. We discussed the law of tithing. Tommy thought the prophet and apostles got paid lots of
money and that the prophet lives in a mansion. It was hilarious explaining how
untrue that misconception is. We also got taken out to dinner by the Herricks.
We were going to have a picnic, but ended up going to an Italian place instead.
One of the kids spilled his drink on the table, then started splashing it, and
the punch line was him licking his hands. After dinner we went to see this lady
named Jennifer who was referred to us by her aunt. She had a lot of questions
for us and the coolest thing was that she expressed an emptiness she felt in
her current church and was looking for a good belief system to raise up her
children in. It was a cool experience and we mainly taught the Restoration
which answered a lot of her questions.
Interestingly, she kind of got stuck on the idea of a living prophet and
the Book of Mormon. We’ll work on it.
The next day, we went to a less
active’s house – they had a lovebird named Olive. And it pooped on my shirt since it liked me the
most. Funny. We also had a table time with our district leader which is Elder
Hillock and my former comp, Elder Mathias, to sort out some problems with unity
in the district since we are very separated from the district leader.
Other main good points of the week included
a blessing I gave to a member, Jo Romaro, who was struggling with breathing and
it helped her out. We are teaching this guy named Arturo who is a Spanish guy
who speaks very good English. He has told us that he realizes that we are
ministers of Christ but he just needs to commit more to reading and going to
church. He is a really nice guy but it seems like he has the world on his
shoulders. We'll help him out.
We had a lesson with William and he
has a baptismal date set for the 15th of June and he has said that he is 98%
sure about getting baptized and he is just so interested now. He loves how Alma
describes the Atonement of Jesus – he thinks it is very poetic. William loves talking about Christ. We also
were able to get him to church for the first time and he liked it a lot. He was
as dressed up as we are so I was very surprised. Funny thing was in Gospel
Principles we talked a lot about baptism. I think by now he should get the
picture. Finally, we took a bus ride to do Walk and Talk instead of just
hanging out on the sidewalk. During
that, I talked to a less active member turned Mennonite and Elder Moon bashed
with this atheist in a wheelchair. The
atheist was arguing that Joseph Smith was crazy. Elder Moon won in the end, but
a Pentecostal woman came over to help him out. We also found out that two
baptisms happened last Saturday and Sunday for some past investigators I helped
teach: Junior and S. Hardy’s dad. I
wasn't able to go (I wanted to, but didn't get permission), but I will get pictures. We just have ups and downs.
On Memorial Day we made a Philippino
meal called Lumpia which is like an egg roll with pork in it. Really
interesting. Elder Quiambao is close to leaving so he is trying to raise money. He returned a knife sharpener he had bought
and is trying to sell an outback gift card ($25 on it) for $30. It was really
funny and B. Franke was calling him out for it and saying, “Elder Quiambao. you
would sell the leftover bones of your meal to a Chinese restaurant.” Really funny!
Well, love you all and have fun!
Elder McClure
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