Well, this week was a fun week!
On Monday, I requested my priesthood line of authority via the email and got a printed out copy – sweet! We went to the other Elders’ house and we had planned to fish at this park but it suddenly rained really hard so with a bunch of other guys we went out and got soaked in our service clothes which was really funny. We ran around and stomped in the rain and when the sun came out we fished. Only Elder Burbank got a fish though. It swallowed the hook whole so this redneck guy helped him out and put his hand in the fish's small mouth to get the hook and by the end of it the fish died. Afterward, we dried up and played Girl Talk (don’t judge!) and watched The Testaments, which is a pretty good movie we don’t watch that often. We ate a lot of junk food so the next day Elder Moon was just dying from how much food he consumed.
Over the week we have met a bunch of weird people with just bizarre conversations. One of them was a guy named James Shank. He is a Mennonite and just bashed with us that things in our church or in the Book of Mormon just couldn't have happened, for example living prophets and modern revelation all the way down to that Nephi couldn't have built a ship to get to the Americas.
Another one was this guy who claimed to be the assistant park manager over this trailer park where we had just finished visiting two referrals. The guy didn't want us to come back. He said they don’t like JWs or Mormons there and he started arguing that no way Satan could be Jesus's brother since it would have tampered with Jesus's purity, which is frankly BS. He told us to come back but we would have to get permission from him which sounds like we have to Bible bash for it.
Later in the week, we went to contact potentials and this little girl came up to us and had us hold her chicken. She was just bizarre, kissing this chicken and arguing with it. The mom was outside so we talked to her and found out she’s a pagan. The mom got mad when the chicken was running through her flowerbed and later the little girl got us to catch fireflies with her.
We also had this really weird lesson that the Doves invited us to. Their neighbor showed interest in learning about the gospel so they invited us to dinner with him so we could get to know each other. The guy’s name is Bill and he was a little tipsy from drinking a little before. The Doves gave him a Bible and S. Dove said, "Read the book and pray to feel inspired."
Also over the week Elder Moon and I have been given a painful awakening that if we eat a lot of junk food like cake and stuff at members’ houses, then we have bad bathroom issues. Elder Moon has been having issues the whole week in and out of the bathroom. It’s been crazy.
We finally got William Ingram baptized!!!! It was amazing and we just had so much fun with it happening and our mission president coming in the day before. He almost came to the baptism. Not a whole lot of people came to the baptism but we did get everything done for it. When we opened the font to watch William get baptized, the glass was all foggy from the heat. William doesn’t like getting in water but he managed very well. When they were getting changed, William had a very hard time getting the jumpsuit off since it shrunk when it got wet. We listened to the prelude music to pass the time for a while then switched to testimonies. Even though most of our district was there, only I and Elder Burbank went up to bear our testimonies. The next day was even better. I was so nervous to confirm William since it was in front of a ward and not a tiny branch like Wakefield. I felt the spirit very powerfully during and after and the spirit helped me a lot through the blessing. I was so happy afterwards and William got introduced as the new member in all the meetings. Such a great experience!
Well, love you family and have a good week doing things.
Elder McClure
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