Greetings Potato Farmers,
Crazy events with some crazy elders this week. We started it with a very weird P-day. We just hung out and played Ping Pong and pool. We found these marble shoots and it was like reliving my childhood with those things. Half way through the day we stopped playing around to go get Slurpees and it was really humid. On the way this lady almost hit me and actually swerved to hit one of the Spanish Elders behind me. It was the first time we felt threatened. After that we hung out then it rained really hard so the other elders changed into service clothes and I just lost the tie and socks. Elder Moon wrapped himself in plastic wrap, which was really funny. We had to clean out our car because of an inspection and trade up. The Franklin elders followed us to the member’s house where we were cleaning our cars. We didn’t have any soap so we hosed off the car and then the Franklin elders used car wipes (for the car’s interior) to clean the outside of the car. When it dried, it looked really nasty.
The next day, we went to zone conference – the last zone conference with President Perry. It was really sad but the beginning of it was okay because we got to see all the missionaries that will be in our side of the mission after the mission splits. There was a lot of inspiring things said by President and Sister Perry. President Perry answered a lot of questions and Sister Perry gave us a top 14 things to remember. Pres. Perry cracked a few jokes about the meeting, calling it "his funeral". When it came to saying goodbye to him we sung "God Be with you Till we Meet Again" and I just lost it with tears and when we had our goodbye hugs, again I was just crying really hard. It was weird though - afterward we stayed for awhile and during the wait, we got our new Jeep and some missionaries ooooed and aaahed and others thought it was stupid. We eventually were the last missionaries there so we had our last standing goodbye to President Perry. It was still pretty sad. We then dropped by the Divvers on the way back to Harrisonburg so I got to see Chelsea and Dillion and Trey again – I had really been anticipating seeing them again. I was a long day before getting home and we were super tired.
We had fun during the week trying to find new investigators and helping out less actives. One less active we went to has been antied by his wife and is just having a hard time. His autistic son was really funny because he got this cup of water and carried it over very carefully then tried to throw it on me. Then he pulled his pants down close to our car to go to the bathroom. We got to bless the home of another less active named Evelyn Shull. I dedicated the house and she thought there would be more rituals or stuff involved, but no. They are really nice people.
The tracting game was funny. We tracted in this old people’s neighborhood and ran into a couple of characters. This one lady about 91 years old talked to us for a while and half way through I gave her a card. So the whole time this lady has this card held up next to her head, but she still asked at the end if we could give her a card. I said, “It’s in your hand,” and she slowly turns her head to see it and goes, "Oh, sorry, I’m 91 years old." Another case was this guy named Trevor and he just graduated high school and was friends with a Mormon. So we talked for awhile and he’s interested. Then his parents come in (they had been gone giving blood) and the dad sees us and laughs but the mom comes in saying, "Hey, d@!*#-bag" to her son then sees us and blushes really bad. We also talked to William and Tommy Mizell about the law of chastity. I had stuttered on the word “homosexuals” and Elder Moon still gets me for it. We also met a couple of drunks but the grand prize goes to the last guy we talked to. He came up to us saying he wants to change and is tired of the life he is living. When we started talking more to him, he revealed that he’s been through a lot and was a prostitute, a dancer, and owner of clubs. He’s gay and his family is part of the mob in Pennsylvania and that he prays to the Virgin Mary above God because she gave birth to God. Oh, he’s also Catholic. We said two prayers with him.
Yesterday we were slammed with appointments to eat for lunch and dinner. I had to give a missionary moment in sacrament meeting and the topic given to me was sharing my testimony, preaching, and my relationship with Heavenly Father. So the way I did it was talking about my dad (Will) about all the church service we had given at the Temple grounds and cleaning the church. I used that to tie into how Heavenly Father does work and that when we preach it helps us understand how hard he works for us. After my talk, a father and son spoke. The son was leaving in two days for the MTC so that was cool to hear a talk from him about mission prep and his dad talked about his grandfather’s mission. After church, we saw this less active old lady and we had to yell to talk to her. We got to give an inactive member a blessing, which was cool.
Well, love you all and enjoy the week.
Elder McClure
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